[CycloneKira]

Akira laughs for a bit and then hugs her back, and this time, he has no qualms in doing so. She doesn't seem to mind, after all. He listens to her talk about her mother and thinks of his own parents, the biological ones, wondering whether they are alive or dead, and whether they are looking down at him from the stars.

Then he hears her say that she resembles her mother, and looks at her for a moment, before returning his gaze to the sky. "Your mother must have been a very beautiful woman," he says, smiling.