Learning of loss
Seiko awoke to a sense of great and terrible emptiness. When she left the chamber, she knew why. She saw her brother and ran to him. She turned him over and cradled him in her arms as the last threads of his life broke and his spirit drained away. She held his lifeless body and cried. She cried until she had no more tears and still she held his body. She held him close to her, rocking back and forth. She could not bring herself to leave his body, which was beginning to grow cold. The time passed and finally, she left his body, filled with death. She watched that boy kill her brother and her friends, the ones who had taught her all she knew, and swore she would find him. She knelt by her brother's body one last time, kissed his forehead, and whispered, "I will miss you, my beloved brother." She escaped from the city; by the same hole the Spirit World had made for the Spirit Detective and the rest of the group to enter it, and into the human world. She would find that boy; she didn't care if she died trying. He had murdered her friends, her mentors, and the only family she'd ever had. He would pay, with his life