Disclaimer: "Magiranger" is owned by Toei Company. The characters "Sutokeru" and "Ginny" are mine.
The Ozu family's Secret Room had turned into a chapel once more. Only, whereas last time it was for a wedding, this time, it was for a funeral. That of the one named Sutokeru. In the center of it all was his pale body, which to all intends and purposes had died over a year ago, but only now did Sutokeru seem to realize that fact.
Sitting with his body was his girlfriend, Ginny. To her the loss was even greater. Not just because it was her boyfriend who had died, but because in an indirect way she had helped to his demise. Ironically, that only happened because she tried to help him.
As for the Ozu family members themselves... their opinions were divided.
"This is what you get from belittling us." Kai said.
Although he didn't sound as though he were happy with Sutokeru's death, there was a hint of scorn in his voice, so Houka spoke: "Does that even matter right now?"
"Of course it does!" Kai replied, "Don't say you've already forgotten!"
Kai reminded her of the times when Sutokeru spoke about them as though they were little children. Like the one time that he told Kai: "... you really need to draw a line between fact and fiction."
Or the time that he caught everyone using one of his spells: "When will you ever learn?"
And that's not to forget what he said the first time he met them: "You guys make necromancy obsolete!"
"Oh yes, that's all that matters, isn't it?" Makito suddenly decided to talk, "How others think of us as people. No, what's worse is that to him we were just unimportant. He never trusted us, nor did he ever give us a reason to trust him."
Makito reminded them of the one time that Sutokeru said something which made Makito draw the conclusion that: "Are you trying to make us look like the bad guys?"
"When people die, those who knew him usually remember all the good things about them." Tsubasa brought up.
"You two are right, he may not have been the perfect person." Urara brought up, "With many times he used tou-san and Hikaru against us, why wouldn't we distrust him."
"He had his ways of going through great lengths to do what he had to." Hikaru said what he believe Urara meant to say.
As they were talking, Lunagel walked closer to Ginny and Sutokeru.
Ginny turned to look at Lunagel, but said nothing.
"You know, his predecessors quite often summoned the spirits of the dead, so they could say goodbye to their loved ones." Lunagel sounded as though she was making a suggestion.
"I know, he told me." Ginny almost bursted back into tears, "But he was the last one."
"True, but where do you think did he get his powers from?" Lunagel asked.
For a brief moment, Ginny didn't know if she heard Lunagel right: "You mean...?"
Lunagel nodded: "I cannot raise him from the dead, however."
"I know." Ginny replied, "But if I could just talk to him one last time, tell him that..."
She couldn't finish her sentence, but Lunagel knew what she wanted to say.