We didn't.

[ They never did win— like Ryoji had said, again and again, it is impossible to win against something that is simply the other half of life.

But they didn't lose, either. ]

Death, in all its forms, isn't something that can be defeated. It shouldn't be, anyways. In the end, all I could do was keep it from touching people's hearts.

[ Keep people's hearts from touching it. ]