The muddy path continues for a while, and slowly the source of light is revealed -- glowing flowers emerging from the mud, soft-petaled and pale lotuses emanating their own light. They reach inward as if searching for something.

They continue on as the path widens; it does so in a bulge around some kind of scene. A young boy, who looks very much like Alma, is clawing his way down this path. On his back is an unconscious pretty boy covered in bandages, but with pale skin showing here and there, and black hair. His bandages are clean and showing no sign of injury -- Alma, however, is covered in wounds, from arrows sticking out of him to injuries all over his arms and legs as if he has clawed his way out of some kind of restraints. He seems on his last legs.

"I'll save you, Yuu. We finally... became friends..."

Just after he says that, more arrows seem to fly out of the muddy walls -- not the spots with the lotuses, but other places -- and sink into him. They seem to miss the young Kanda entirely.

Beyond them, the path splits into two, one twisting further upward, the other twisting further downward.