But it was nothing more than a vision of a split second, and then the bright light became too bright for anyone at all to look into. When the light faded away, he was just standing in the alley again where Kyouko had sat before.. but now the girl was gone. Well, not fully, but.. all that was left was her body lying on the ground, slightly ruffled but otherwise looking completely fine aside from the fact that she was dead. Next to her on the ground was a small black sphere - the Grief Seed, her Grief Seed. The thing her Soul Gem had turned into.

If he would bother to look more closely at her though, it was almost as if, even in death, even though there wasn't a soul in her body left.. she was smiling, just a little, since in her final moments she finally got to have what she never did before. Something-- no, someone to care for. Someone who cared for her.

A new family.