[Asch doesn't answer right away. What Guy is saying is true; his part is done, much as it stings sometimes to think of it. He may not have stopped Van, but he sent Luke on his way to doing that. His death gave Luke the power of second-order hyperresonance, which saved them from Sync's trap and freed Lorelei from Van. He wasn't a hero - never was - and he died alone and generally unwanted in a place that wasn't even supposed to exist, but he'd done something. He'd accomplished enough of his goals to feel satisfied. He'd made a difference, like he'd promised with Natalia. They hadn't just changed Kimlasca... they'd been changing the world. Even if it hadn't been the way they'd planned.
I broke a lot of promises that day.
It's part of what's bothered him about this place- what's always bothered him about it, but especially the last few years, since he was sent back to Auldrant to be greeted with a lungful of blood and the sweet release of nothing. Only to wake once again here, like it had been nothing more than a bad dream. And to die, and die, and die...]
...You've never died. It's not something you can understand.
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I broke a lot of promises that day.
It's part of what's bothered him about this place- what's always bothered him about it, but especially the last few years, since he was sent back to Auldrant to be greeted with a lungful of blood and the sweet release of nothing. Only to wake once again here, like it had been nothing more than a bad dream. And to die, and die, and die...]
...You've never died. It's not something you can understand.