An ace of spades was all that was left of him. After everything that had happened, in the end, all that was left was a damn card.

I was sure that Lenalee was mourning beside me, but I couldn't hear nor see her.

As the horrifying scene continued on, I forced myself to watch.

You were dying, and all I could do was watch you do so.

When that Noah was finished, and left you for dead, something inside me died.

All I could hear was your screams and the sound of my heart breaking. I wondered if anyone else could hear it too. But nothing happened; no acknowledgment was made to show that someone else had heard it. So I figured that the sound of my heart breaking and your screams were alike in the way that nobody else could hear them.

Before leaving, I quickly grabbed the ace of spades. If this was truly the last memory of you, then so be it. I would be the one to keep it.