He'll be back. Death isn't permanent here. He'll be back in a day or so, and then... and then... It's not forever, but it's still wrong. Why didn't he call? Why was his pistol so far away? What caused the fire? Nobunaga debates sitting down in the hall, but not yet.

"Are you all right?" Crichton wasn't just Nobunaga's friend, after all. "Then the people blowing themselves up... was it someone else doing it instead?"