Cain Heel stood a last time portraying BJ, facing the man who pretended to finish him, so he took a last shot and smiled. But he knew that smile wasn't his, and this time he was aware that he was smiling. When he started falling, his insides battled: Tsuruga-san versus Kuon.
"Even if you think I'll be gone, I am going to stay" Kuon's aggressive glare was mocking him.
"I know" Ren Tsuruga was resigned to the idea of fighting his past.
"You can't shut me down, Ren" Kuon yelled "And you won't have her forever"
"I can't shut you down, but… won't you miss her too?" Ren replied, trying to be the one who handled the situation "She made you come"
"And then she made me disappear" Kuon seemed to be annoyed.
"I won't let you hurt her" Ren tried to stand still "You told me you wouldn't"
"I won't!" Kuon seemed to be confused "But she cannot stay"
"I need her!" Ren protested.
"You didn't even want to accept her" Kuon changed his anger so he could tease Ren "And if it hadn't been for me, you'd never dared to touch her"
"She doesn't know we touched her. She believes it was Cain's doing, and she was Setsu at those times" Ren didn't want to lose his calm. He needed to be on control.
"If she stays, I'll show up more often. Is that what you want, Ren?" Ren tried to avoid the confusion Kuon's words provoked, he sounded such contradictory.
"You said you would stay" Ren showed a ghost of a smile "And now you say if she goes away you also will?"
"She will never answer your feelings" Kuon's evasive was a sign of his weakness "and if she does, she'll run away as soon as she finds out the truth about you"
"Is not my truth but yours" Ren didn't think too much when he replied.
"And I am YOU" Kuon's statement left him breathless. Ren Tsuruga was lying on the safety cushions terrified by his own thoughts and the fight he was having with his own darkness. Indeed, he was Kuon.
"That was brilliant" he heard a familiar voice praising him from the distance, but he was still petrified by this last revelation.
"If you don't get up we cannot call it a day" he heard once more. He tried feeling any trace of blood running back to his body, but the cold was consuming him faster. If she wanted to rescue him, she'd need to touch him, make him come back from that state of mind that was keeping his own soul as a prisoner "Come on Nii-chan, I am hungry" he heard and, from the back of his mind, Kuon pushed his way out.
"Shall I treat you to dinner?" He whispered. Kuon saw how Setsu returned him a deep glare.
"Of course, nii-chan, we shall celebrate you're done with this movie".