...And yet you're still enough of an idiot to think that I care at all about living. I thought you smarter than that, Noct. But you still don't understand at all, do you?

This was never about winning or losing. Darkness would have fallen regardless of what I did myself. Yes, obviously I wanted vengeance, but I think I always realistically knew it was preordained that I was hardly going to be the last Lucian standing.

No, it was only ever about the ending, and burning down everything on the way there just because that was what the world and my brother deserved. His line in ashes, the world in ruins, and me finally getting what I wanted. A Chosen King who could despise the vessel of darkness so much as to finally kill me.

I only ever had one ulterior motive, and that was your sword in my chest.