"I served you first out of duty, I must admit: out of my honor as a samurai, and with the loyalty I have always striven for with all my being..." He pauses. "And perhaps -- when we first spoke, and I thanked you for the chance to walk again on this earth, I thought more of my own past as I did so. My own regrets."

He will not close his eyes. "Perhaps I will always regret that day, I do not know. But what I feel for you, and the battle I wage for you, are not ghosts of that day which I carry forward into these times. I -- I believe in you, and I wish for your happiness, and when I think on these things it feels almost selfish. But that also might well be how I know these feelings are my own."