If Koji calls Ryoko, the two confront Fuminori. During the fight, Koji still kills Yoh, but before Saya can kill him, Ryoko arrives and gives Koji liquid nitrogen which he proceeds to throw on Saya, freezing her. Despite being mortally wounded by Fuminori, Ryoko manages to shoot Saya and shatter the ice. Fuminori then commits suicide, with Saya dying alongside him. Koji is left as the only survivor of the story, unable to live as he did before now that he knows the "truth" of the world; he is haunted by nightmares and the thought that more beings like Saya exist. He purchases a single bullet for his revolver, in the hopes that when he is unable to carry on anymore, he can commit suicide, and find salvation in death.