[what a dangerous expression. for what it's worth, mitsuba's doesn't change much from her calm, carefully measured kind one. of course she remembers; fate had been cruel as it was, why would it be any nicer at this point in time?]
[it does break her heart to see the pain strewn over his expression, remnants of their goodbye.]
I'm here now. I don't understand, but... Will you--
[for not being strong enough to hang on, leaving him alone. worse than their parents' death, she had positively left him without family--though she knows and believes strongly that kondo and toushirou and the rest of the shinsengumi were a family to the boy.]