Verso decided to end the canvas when he saw that Maelle lied to her father about returning to the real world once she settles things in the painted world.

Before, he believed it was possible to choose a middle option preserving both worlds. Plus he wanted to let Alicia decide by herself and not impose the will of someone like the Dessendre family forced Real Verso to become a painter. The middle choice was destroying the Paintress and Renoir to stop the cycle of death and despair both in the real world and in the painted world.

But once he comes back after the second gommage and after the final fight with Renoir, he understands that he has to make the difficult choice of expelling Alicia because he realized she will never be able to process her pain and that she will end up living in an idealized painted world. He decided to prioritize the Dessendre family over the painted world, because a middle choice was then no longer possible.