"No." The resolve in Eiji's voice surprised even himself. There was a time in his past where he would have been too afraid to do what was right, but ever since the day he had made the wrong decision he had promised himself he would never make the same mistake again.

"I don't understand why you're saying those things, Kougami-san, but I'm not going to be like I used to be anymore. I won't save myself only to live with the regret."

And that was when the current ripped through his body. As the pain seared through him, he knew that he wasn't strong enough to survive it. It was the most raw, potent agony he had ever experienced. He screamed for a time, but eventually he went silent.

He was dead.