"You look like shit," his one good eye widened at the familiar voice. He forced himself to look up, and kneeling in front of him was Swindler. However, instead of the short hair and blue outfit he saw her in last, she looked like how she looked when he first met her—her hair at shoulder-length and wearing that white and pink dress.
"...you're still as vulgar as ever I see," he responded after a moment. She smiled but said nothing.
They stared at each other in silence before Courier asked, "why are you here?"
"Isn't it obvious?"
He scowled as she let out a puff of laughter.
"I'm dead, simple as that."
Courier blinked. Paused as he let that information process through his mind. Then sighed and leaned his head back against the remains of his motorcycle.
He shouldn't be surprised. The moment she handed that 500 yen coin to him, it was as if he instinctively knew that would be the last time he would see her alive.
"Dropped money is bad luck," he had told her.
"But this single coin has changed my life like none other has," she fired right back. "This coin has the power to change people's lives in a huge way. Isn't that worth more than any amount?"
And she had left that life-changing coin in his hands. Life changing indeed it was, with the revolt in Kansai. Then he had given it to the kids.
Speaking of the kids... "were… were those two able to…?" He asked.
"Don't worry about them. You got that last airship real good," she assured him.
'Good,' he thought. He said that he would finish the job, even if it cost him his life, and he would have fought tooth and nail to never go back on that promise.
He felt his eyelids getting heavy... at this point, it was almost impossible to keep them open.
"Sleep," Swindler gently commanded as she placed her hand on his, "I'll be here when you wake up."
He breathed out and stopped fighting to stay awake.
Then he closed his eyes.
A/N: I was utterly destroyed by the last episode so I've made this short one-shot to cope with it and give myself a little bit of closure.