Taroticum: Judgement
Some people say you can tell a man by the birds who come to his garden.
Muraki invited the nightingales. There is a secret to teaching them to sing during the day. It involves thorns and eyes and perpetual darkness.
Later, when death's agents came for him, he would have welcomed eternal night, if only so he need not see the dispassion in their eyes.
All the love, all the pain, all the hatred, distilled down to this; pity and gentleness and a quiet ending to a life of silver agony.
Meifu will not grant him the mercy of blindness.