Final Farewells
The sky is overcast, and the rain begins to fall. It is almost as if the clouds themselves are crying. It is appropriate, Nakamura Hiro notes, for nature to respond in such a way. He had done what needed to be done, and sealed away a dangerous villain, an evil villain, for all eternity. Nevertheless, Takezo Kensei had been a great man once, many years ago, but now only Hiro remembers the man he had once been.
"I am sorry, Kensei," he tells the unmarked grave, "I did what was necessary. You had become evil, a perversion of your former self. Still, if it means anything, I am sorry. You were my friend once, and I can only wish things had gone differently."
The rain is pouring now, and Hiro feels relieved. At least he now has a reasonable excuse for why his eyes were moist. After all, if one thing rang true in the comics, it was that heroes never cried. He steps forward and carefully, almost delicately, places a bouquet of flowers on the ground above where Adam rested. It was the only suitable offering he could think of: the English liked their flowers after all.
"I am really sorry," he says, forlorn, and steps away from the grave. Before teleporting away once and for all, he has one more message for the unmarked grave.
"Rest in peace, Kensei."
And then he is gone, and it seems as if he had never come. Meanwhile, the silent earth makes no response.
Finis