No, you're wrong. I'm even worse than a burned out husk of a man if you can even call me that. I've been alive for over three hundred years. Sometimes I don't even know why I've been living for this long.

[ Deep down maybe Alphen already knows the answers that he's looking for. He knows their journey wasn't meaningless and they certainly changed their lives for the better. It wasn't a pointless endeavor, but he just couldn't stand to take another step without Shionne. She's the reason he's even alive to begin with. He was serious when he said that he wanted everyone to live in the future together. ]

Shionne's the reason I'm even standing here. Without Zephyr's teachings rage would have just consumed me.

On my own, I don't have anything going for me except this miserable excuse. That's what I really am.