Genis glanced up at him again. There was something different in Mithos's eyes that wasn't there before - or maybe that was just him. Maybe he was just happy to hear Mithos reassure him that he wasn't going to do all of this just to have Raine tell him he was wrong all along.

And from the surface, from the scenario Mithos constructed for him, it really sounded like Raine would be proud of him. He'll have done something good in the end.

If he could forget about everything in between, things would be okay. He breathed a silent sigh.

"Will the world really be a better place? Where no-one has to suffer anymore?"