It all happened before her eyes, her heartbeat became unsteady and uncomfortably loud in her point of view. It was all happening again, she failed to protect the ones she found close to her. Just like she had watched her parents die, her friends die, her allies Monoso and Luki die. They all died because of her role, the role she had chosen naively. In order to have the ability to stop an upcoming devastation of the afterlife's balance, Kaika had no choice but to go through all of the pain and suffering, both on herself and on the witness of others. It was then that it was all happening again, to a girl that she had just met not too long ago. These kinds of moments made her think to herself, [i]Is the Pact really worth it?[/i] Maybe it was a wrong choice to accept Miki's offer and let herself die at that car crash long ago. No, she would prefer a normal life over this, but she knew there was no more going back after accepting the pact. There were still people to protect out there, the ones that don't deserve to go through all of this pain and suffering.

"K-Kaika..." Sota felt himself freed from the soul binding once Stein was supposedly blasted away by Hope, but was unsure on what to say at the sight of these events. Even if he did not actually and truly meet this girl, Sota knew that Kaika had some connection to this girl named Hope. Kaika only regained her senses, there was no use of crying and mourning for all eternity whenever someone died, because fate would always help her carry on and look for the distant future.

"Sota...hear me on this...I'm not going to let this girl's death...to be in vain...we're both fighting for a reason...right? To protect..." Kaika said with a shaky breath, several tears rolling down her face. In a proper honor for Hope, she rested the girl against a tree, as if the girl were peacefully sleeping if the chest wound didn't exist. Like a trinket that would last with this girl forever, Kaika takes out a white ribbon that she had ever since she and Luki became friends, and placed the white ribbon in the hands of Hope. "Maybe soon...we'll get to play again...when fate decides..." Kaika said as if she were talking to Hope, and then went to Sota. "C'mon...there's still a lot...we've got to do here..." Kaika said to him, both walking away. Though, Kaika glanced at Hope one last time before departing.