"The first choice I had was to remain headstrong and tell myself I am the hero. To train hard, to work hard like you said—but I knew fate would never change."
"In the end, I would only be destroyed by Zar'kul—something the young, hot-blooded me would have been absolutely fine with."
"Dying to someone truly powerful."
"But then, I realized my stubbornness wouldn't just be the death of me—it would drag along the entirety of Endearth."
"The young, the old, the innocents, all dead due to my stubbornness..."
"Or I could accept that I was never meant to be the hero."
"To accept my fate as a nobody—and instead focus everything I had... on you."
"You, who held a chance, even if slight."
"In the end, I choose to cast aside my pride as a prodigy and step down for you." He said, but Ryuk only scoffed.
"Tch, fate, fate, fate. The same word is uttered by losers all year round."
