I did. Even though I was there to stop them, even if I feared, deep down, for what would have happened if they did live... ultimately, I wanted to do it without killing them.

[They probably would have ended up mere lab rats for Jackal.

...the thought of someone who bore a resemblance to the girl she desperately fought to protect, in that time, being toyed with like an inanimate thing without its own feelings... it makes Mei's stomach twist in on itself.]

...At least they'll be together, wherever they went after their passing. But... it's an ending they didn't deserve.