"... Me too. I thought, 'I should do what I can', and if I die, then that's fine. But it's not the case at all. --The Avatars can take our lives, but they're not only our own."

Ah, he had let out too much while he was being bitter; Minato shook his head, muttering to himself. "What a joke."

Crystallis had a way of ruining his plans, but he had never experienced anything on this scale. The holidays had managed to keep him preoccupied with things for a while, but now it all felt like a massive waste of time. But he couldn't say this to everyone who was cheerful, that would've been unfair to them working so hard to keep up the morale of a world in grave danger.

"It's one of the things, yes... The other is... something I can't remember."