Forgiveness of crimes due to circumstances beyond the criminal's control? That is precisely what Sparks had been working on training out of Ramza since he'd first applied as an officer.

"I understand what you mean...but what reason do I have to trust that you would do better by him, and that sparing this man would not place others around him in danger?" He still does not meet the Shadow's eyes. These are the questions he has asked himself, in Crystallis and back in Ivalice. When he had first started out as a cadet, he had wanted to fight evil...but he had found that there was very little black and white and entirely too much gray in the world.

"What would you do with this man, if I stayed my hand?"