...I suppose you're right about that.

...The 'me' that I see also has blood on his hands.

...Knowing the pain he caused filled him with great sorrow, yet he did not stray from his path.

...I wonder if you'd call that strength or weakness?

...Of course, it wasn't possible for him to stray from it. After all, he'd signed a contract.

...To break it would have barred the gates of heaven to him forever.

...But would he have chosen differently, even without it?

...I don't know, but I think about it, every now and then, when I think back to that time. The era of the war.