"It's not going to be the same thing!" he shouted back. He never held back with Lloyd and he wasn't going to start now. "I'm not like that! You just— You don't understand!"
Genis cradled the shards in his hands, not minding where the edges dug into his skin. This had Raine's soul. What was left of it, anyway.
Lloyd's shouts were what really stung, like knives digging into him. Everything he was saying was true. This was crazy. This went against everything they were working for before. Saving Colette, destroying the human ranches, uniting the worlds... It was all so people would stop suffering. It was to go against Cruxis and Yggdrasill — Mithos.
But when he thought about how tired he was, how lonely he felt, how there was dull ache never left his chest, he could only imagine the pain was immeasurably worse for Mithos. Thousands of years, alone... He could understand why he wanted to do it. Colette, Lloyd, Presea...none of them would live nearly as long as the two of them and their sisters would have anyway.
It would be a lonely life.
Not everything Mithos did was okay, and Genis couldn't pretend that Lloyd's words meant nothing, but he had to make a choice that he wouldn't regret. For Raine. He took a few steps back until he was close to Mithos's side. "You don't need to say all that..."
He didn't believe Mithos when he said he destroyed the Exsphere to stop Raine's resurrection; he didn't think Lloyd was doing this to work against him in particular. He understood what Lloyd was trying to do. But at the same time, he knew Lloyd didn't - and couldn't - understand his feelings. And he knew that Lloyd didn't trust him to his judgement.
"...Let's just go, Mithos. You were right," he added miserably.
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Genis cradled the shards in his hands, not minding where the edges dug into his skin. This had Raine's soul. What was left of it, anyway.
Lloyd's shouts were what really stung, like knives digging into him. Everything he was saying was true. This was crazy. This went against everything they were working for before. Saving Colette, destroying the human ranches, uniting the worlds... It was all so people would stop suffering. It was to go against Cruxis and Yggdrasill — Mithos.
But when he thought about how tired he was, how lonely he felt, how there was dull ache never left his chest, he could only imagine the pain was immeasurably worse for Mithos. Thousands of years, alone... He could understand why he wanted to do it. Colette, Lloyd, Presea...none of them would live nearly as long as the two of them and their sisters would have anyway.
It would be a lonely life.
Not everything Mithos did was okay, and Genis couldn't pretend that Lloyd's words meant nothing, but he had to make a choice that he wouldn't regret. For Raine. He took a few steps back until he was close to Mithos's side. "You don't need to say all that..."
He didn't believe Mithos when he said he destroyed the Exsphere to stop Raine's resurrection; he didn't think Lloyd was doing this to work against him in particular. He understood what Lloyd was trying to do. But at the same time, he knew Lloyd didn't - and couldn't - understand his feelings. And he knew that Lloyd didn't trust him to his judgement.
"...Let's just go, Mithos. You were right," he added miserably.