Jesus Christ, the comments on this chapter are so annoying. The main part of what brought me to this novel is Desir, with his clever planning and his tendency to take on things alone. I honestly don’t care who he ends up with.
I don’t think that he is a simp or pushovers. I think that he really loves his girlfriend, probably knows that she would descend into madness if he wasn’t there, and has nothing to lose now that he is dead.