[It definitely was awful and depressing, and even with Kashuu by his side back in his own world, it's not quite the same.]

We're the same kind of sword, so Okita-kun couldn't use us together. It was either me or Kiyomitsu. So after Kiyomitsu...

[Well. He only had one uchigatana left.

That's not all, of course. It never is.] ...Okita-kun's health started to fail very quickly after that, though. It was only a few years before he died, and he wasn't allowed to fight anymore before that. I stayed with him, but... [He looks down.] Swords can't cut out illness.