First Step (Part 2)

"I said that you are right. Back then your power was the only source of self-confidence I had. I would have never accepted to break our bond because I was too scared that, without you, I'd be back to be worth nothing.

"You also did the right thing by dropping me in a hotel room while unconscious. When I woke up, I wanted to bond back with you and beat you up in equal measure. I needed the distance to take a good look at myself with nothing and no one affecting my judgment.

"Otherwise I would still be trying to pin my mistakes on you with the excuse that I don't know where I end and you start." Acala lowered his eyes in shame, thinking back to his victims.

Admitting to have been a petty, egotistical man who had killed the Rezars who had taken him as one of their own just to coddle his own overinflated, wounded pride was hard. Yet the realization that he might never find a way to make amends was much worse.