Two weeks have passed but he is still lost, he feels like a failure, he was forced to kill a friend to protect another but it was in vain, Shige Shige is dead and Nobu Nobu is now Shogun, she tried to protect her friends too but, alas, it wasn't meant to be, Sarutobi Ayame and Hattori Zenzou feel lost as they feel hollow, how can they go on knowing that they couldn't even save one friend? She longs to comfort him but doesn't know how, he feels useless and longs for comfort though he doesn't realize it or feels he doesn't deserve it, time will go on and so will they, Zenzou needs to forgive himself and Ayame needs to forgive herself as well, only time will tell what will be.