To lose someone important...someone close to you. Is it like losing a limb? A missing part that is unfairly taken away from you- never to be fully replaced ever again? Akane can construct those questions in her head. She can look up websites in a matter of few seconds and weave over all its possible symptoms and effects but the loss itself is...its human.

She thought the human soul attached to her code would help her understanding all that. Why can't she?

Any way you could've saved them - and then it hurts all over again because even if you could have, that doesn't change the fact that they're gone.

Gone.

Her mind went back to Zenkichi, remembering the look of utter defeat in his eyes when Akane had stormed out of the place.
Then she had felt like crying. She wished she could cry to relieve herself from her heavy emotions- instead all she was left was this gaping emptiness.

This...void.

Dad...

Her sigh hitched as she heaved a deep breath and considered her words.

"If you ever had the option to run into them again...would you tell them what you just told me? About a different life? The memories that you shared with them?"