Enishi was gazing at the forest from the upper floor of his mansion, his mind already two days ahead.
He had already noticed strange movements from the trees earlier... although the wind was practically nonexistent.
Then a bright light enlighten the whole landscape. How could that be?
Had an animal just tripped on one of his traps? That was impossible: his traps were designed to only set off with the minimum weight of a human being, and there were no animal heavy enough in that forest ... The forest was only hosting squirrels and rabbit-like beasts.
He immediately set off for the forest to check on all his traps. Maybe there was still time to settle things again before his great revenge day.
At the brink of the forest he could see a body lying on the floor. He stepped back in surprise recognizing the battousai's girl.
"You?" But his eyes grew wide opened when they caught sight of the Diary that was lying next to what he thought was a lifeless body.
He immediately recognized his sister handwriting. He slowly kneeled down to take hold of the precious Diary not paying much attention to Kaoru.
Then he heard whispers coming from the body...
"En - Enishi...!" "Please ... read...read it...." She was using what was left of her strength to utter these few words to him.
Although a bit startled to hear that she was still alive he didn't approach her.
He sat down and started to read. What he learned was that his sister's feelings were so far from what he thought they were.
She did care for the battousai and the battousai did really care for her too.
He suddenly realized that the girl laying next him had actually come all this way so he could be aware of this. She was ready to throw her life away for the man she loved; the same way he would have given his life for his sister; the same way his sister had given her life for the battousai...
"Thank you ..." he said with a soft voice, although he wasn't sure she could hear him.
He tore a small piece of his big coat, and handled it over to Kaoru by putting it straight into her left hand and pressed her hand against her wound so she could stop the bleeding herself.
Then he covered her with the rest of his coat.
"This should help you wait for your battousai ..."
"Although I will never be able to forgive him, I will never seek to harm him again..."
These last words echoed in Kaoru's head and she felt a great relief which made her open her eyes for a second, right before they were closed again and her hand lost the pressure on her wound.