[Both Wire and Hiryuu's bodies crumple to the ground as Lucifel shifts him over for that embrace. Distantly, Wire could see - as though he were only a spectator to his own death, unable to move - the other man's lips take his in one last kiss.

The darkness was creeping up his torso now, over his arms. In its wake, his skin was turned ashen, crackled and black, as though he'd been burnt up in a flame.

Too weak to speak, he couldn't even finish a last word.]

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