I lived an entire life only to learn that people had been giving up their lives for nothing. Friends, family, acquaintances. It didn't and still doesn't matter to me what the village's reasons were for keeping everyone in the dark. [ … ] A few more years of this, and the entire village would've died out.

[ There is a reason why, despite all that he's willing to do for other people, he doesn't truly consider himself kind. And it's this. ]