In the void, you look over, behind Sonya and Raiden, and Liu Kang is knelt on the ground.

Without a sound, you continue to watch. He sobs whilst holding his cousin’s, Kung Lao’s, metal ‘sombrero’, as Kano had called it.

Glancing around at the void, Cole and Raiden discuss and explain the format for the tournament against Outworld, completely ignoring the poor monk mourning his cousin’s fate. It was heartbreaking to see that his friends, the people he trusted, didn’t pay much attention.

Slowly watching, he crossed his hands over the top of it, then pulled off the ribbon.

Carefully raising it up in his hands, he ties the red lace around his head as a bandana, in honour of Kung Lao.