Hitsugaya was quiet for some time, his head lowered as he heard Renji's last requests...and that's what they were.

No one was coming for them. As loudly as Toboe shouted, as desperately as Artemis pleaded, any help would be too late.

All because he chose to save the human.

"Fowl," Hitsugaya said quietly. "We're not going to find a healer in time. You know that..."