Ayumi was no longer in this world. She was now a cold corpse that was probably being sent for forensic dissection. When that ended, they would sew her back together probably give her a simple funeral sen her to the crematorium and burn her. She would turn into smoke, rise up into the sky, and mix with the clouds. Then she would come down to the earth again as rain, and nurture some nameless patch of grass with no story to tell...
What Tengo would have to do, it seemed, was take a hard honest look at the past while standing at the crossroads of the presen.Then he could create a future as though he were rewriting the past. It was the only way
The awareness that she now possessed a pistol was enough to make the world look a little different. Her surroundings had taken on a strange unfamiliar coloration.