I held my daughter close, feeling the warmth slip away from her. I laid on my side, on the stone cold ground, letting the snow freeze over me. I didn't care anymore, about anything. All that mattered to me was Ushio, and she's gone.

Even though I knew this, I didn't want to let her go, because letting her go meant losing her forever, never being able to tell her I loved her, never being able to pick her up from school, never taking her to see Sanae and Akio. It just seemed so wrong.

I had already lost Nagisa and I didn't want to lose Ushio too. I felt my tears freezing to the sides of my face to the corner of my eyes. I felt my hands freezing over from the harsh bite of the cold. Soon, the warmth that lasted after Ushio's passing was replaced by cold, icy to the touch. I knew my own body was cold too, freezing me and slowly killing me.

But, maybe that was a good thing. That way, I don't have to take my own life, I don't have to live the life I did after Nagisa died, drinking and gambling away my money and my time. Even though I had changed, losing my daughter would be like hitting the reset button.

Soon, I couldn't see anything, I couldn't feel anything, there was nothing I could hear. I was in total blackness, I couldn't even feel Ushio in my arms. I was in a black hole, my memories, my personality, everything that made me who I was started to slip away, leaving me in a black state of mind, totally blank. My last thought was one word, familiar, yet so far away. Nagisa.

Sunlight was filtering through a window, casting shadows over the room I was in. I look around and see a table and a girl with long brown hair, her hand reaching out to me, and I take it.