Midoriko approached Kenshin, where he sat on the bench. "You plan to face him, even though today is the day I die?"
"Perhaps in my facing him, I save your life." Kenshin replied. "This will not end until I end it."
"Then let me be by your side." Midoriko urged.
"You must not." Kenshin replied, caressing her cheek. "Not when you are already so vulnerable."
Midoriko removed the Shikon from her neck. "This is my soul. Only you should be the one to take it, my Kaitoh."
She reached out to place it in his hands, and Gouki grabbed it, and shattered it.
Midoriko's eyes went blank with death and she fell to the ground, dead.