You're chanting that speech to the wrong person, Polka. I fight to protect humanity, of course I think it deserves to be saved, and I'm perfectly aware that people deserve a second chance.
[He has been there himself, gone down to hell and back again, receiving forgiveness from everyone but himself. Yes, Ikki doesn't need anyone to tell him that people can change and make good use of second chances.]
A victory is real, no matter who dies or survives. What you describe would be a perfect victory, but an absolute victory would also require the survival of the one who's willing to die to save temporarily millions.
Say what you want but I fail to see the point of sacrificing one life in order to obtain just a temporal peace. I would prefer to fight and die, which is what I was born to do anyway, and attain a real peace. One that won't have a time limit, or at least not a visible one, neither one that creates an endless cycle!
[Ikki's flared, that is a major point in his and the other Bronze Saints' attitude of not letting Athena sacrifice herself or place them aside, unable to fight with her. Athena has been fighting against Gods since the ancient times and always all she has managed to attain was a peace that would last a hundred of years at most, locking herself and the Saints in an endless cycle until Hades was defeated completely.]
They believed your words were the lies because they first believed the lies that Count feed them. I've seen it, people serving the God of Death, willing to help destroy the whole world, and truly believing that such a thing would help humanity to progress and transform the world in a paradise.
[He talks about those people with great disdain, though also a hint of pity. Even him in his worst time was perfectly conscious that the destruction of the world would leave nothing but a dead planet. And at that time he pursued that simply because of selfishness of not wanting to see people live or be happy, and because he wanted to attain a senseless revenge against the man who had put them through a living hell, even if it meant to kill his own brother and himself to make the efforts of that man amount to nothing in the end. But Hades' Specters... And Pandora... They all truly believed they would get eternal life and happiness by destroying the world.]
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[He has been there himself, gone down to hell and back again, receiving forgiveness from everyone but himself. Yes, Ikki doesn't need anyone to tell him that people can change and make good use of second chances.]
A victory is real, no matter who dies or survives. What you describe would be a perfect victory, but an absolute victory would also require the survival of the one who's willing to die to save temporarily millions.
Say what you want but I fail to see the point of sacrificing one life in order to obtain just a temporal peace. I would prefer to fight and die, which is what I was born to do anyway, and attain a real peace. One that won't have a time limit, or at least not a visible one, neither one that creates an endless cycle!
[Ikki's flared, that is a major point in his and the other Bronze Saints' attitude of not letting Athena sacrifice herself or place them aside, unable to fight with her. Athena has been fighting against Gods since the ancient times and always all she has managed to attain was a peace that would last a hundred of years at most, locking herself and the Saints in an endless cycle until Hades was defeated completely.]
They believed your words were the lies because they first believed the lies that Count feed them. I've seen it, people serving the God of Death, willing to help destroy the whole world, and truly believing that such a thing would help humanity to progress and transform the world in a paradise.
[He talks about those people with great disdain, though also a hint of pity. Even him in his worst time was perfectly conscious that the destruction of the world would leave nothing but a dead planet. And at that time he pursued that simply because of selfishness of not wanting to see people live or be happy, and because he wanted to attain a senseless revenge against the man who had put them through a living hell, even if it meant to kill his own brother and himself to make the efforts of that man amount to nothing in the end. But Hades' Specters... And Pandora... They all truly believed they would get eternal life and happiness by destroying the world.]