Yes Kaalaa, in a state of shock, digging into Kumar's bloody and still warm body to get the bullet back from her in a panic to undo it all somehow. But consider, Shamane, a man who was content to live the rest of his life in nature to punish his family in some kind of way for throwing away Kumar without hurting them directly. Shamane who went running back into a place he had no desire to go to again so that he could meet the dazzling older sister who changed his world and introduced him to what injustice was, and how blood ties can mean nothing. Imagine that man meeting a group of people who all ended up in the place he was called to together, and come to find out, one of them is his niece. A girl who was mentored by Kumar and practically raised by her, but he has no chance to celebrate with him because time has done ugly things to Kumar. She's no longer the person who he met all those years ago. Before Shamane could even celebrate Kumar making a new family away from their own, Kumar had become someone who chose hate above all else. Kaalaa had to defeat her own mentor, and no matter how manipulative and toxic she could be at times, Kumar was also her mother. Shamane's character story revolves around his journey away from his family and into the woods, and his first experiences with life and death. In becoming the character he is in the present of the game, he learned to help living beings die peacefully while honoring the cycle of life and death. He would've seen the look of someone about to die.
Yes, Kaalaa digging out the bullet from Kumar's skull, but consider him holding back Kaalaa from sprinting in to see her dead mother. Imagine Shamane going in himself and doing the funeral rites for the sister he had longed to see again for so long, and imagine Shamane bringing back the bullet to his niece with his own arms and hands covered in his sister's blood.
