That's my pet, Saizou. [He doesn't answer about the letters right away. He could have written a different date down, a day that hadn't come yet, but that was something he wanted to keep quiet as much as possible. Rather than answer truthfully, he looks up at the stranger and the haunted expression in his face. A man without his anchor, missing the ties that kept him bound to the world, all of them left behind. Souji wondered if that was what he would look like as the Shinsengumi left him behind to fight the war as he died in a back room.]

Maybe your purpose is just to "be."

[He capped the brush and slipped it into his sleeve.]

It is the hardest of tasks to complete, but sometimes the most important.