(PLAY AS CURTAIN CALL TSUKASA! fuck me fuck me fuck me fuck me shoumeisha has destroyed me sukoyu cathedral thank you for this song)

Rui could feel his body disintegrating. His voice was withering away, leaving him unable to sing the songs he once did with a smile. Oh, how he would love to hug the people of the earth he watched over. He wished he could just hug their pain away - would that make them happy? He knew he would never find out.

"I simply loved them all," He murmured into the empty space. It had been years, and so much had happened since. He adored life, despite his impending death; The past, the present, the future, he loved it all. Maybe he was too loving, to forgiving of the painful parts of life.

He felt a tap on his shoulder, turning to meet Tsukasa's gaze. It was their first meeting in so very long, and yet they knew each other like the back of their hands. He knew that Tsukasa would listen to his broken, withered voice till the end of his life; The proof that he was alive, Tsukasa would always listen.