It was curious how this conversation was mirroring all of the ones from the past, as if even the words they were to say were somehow fated to be. "I could have, but I didn't care anymore by that point. I convinced myself that since Mithos had promised to reunite the two worlds once he'd revived Martel, I could live with my decision, because what I wanted would be accomplished anyway. That's what I thought, that I could only keep moving down the flawed path I had paved for myself, until you taught me otherwise."

He had still managed to muck up quite a lot, but somehow, he had still been alive at the end of it all, and that was definitely not what Kratos had expected. He had been almost disappointed at first, but more and more, he was happy things had not gone as he'd originally intended.