No, it... it's not like that! I'm not some monster the way you are, I'm fighting to overcome that side of me... I won't deny that it exists. But surely there must be some way to be rid of that stain, it can't possibly be permanent. I've seen someone embrace the light and be absolved of such darkness...

[But that was in his own world and it was different entirely, involving a magical power on top of a mountain... and a battle against that darker self. He doesn't know all the details about what Cecil actually went through, but he has the basic idea anyway. And he assumes unfortunately wrongly that he destroyed that darkness rather than accepted it.]

I... I don't know. They wouldn't have meant to plant doubt in me. Surely they meant to restore me fully to life... and they must have done so. But... if energy cannot be destroyed, surely it's entirely that way for my own life energy, it wasn't destroyed...