I tried both options and it still ended the same.
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Yes, this is spoilers, but the routes are interconnected, and break the laws of space and time.
Finishing one route will open up new options and scenes in another one, and if I remember, maybe even in the same route itself.
As if Luke is a being from outside of that world's space-time spectrum, which is also part of my big theory. And yeah, maybe Alon too... How does he talk to you when you're dead in that dark place?