W-well... they started attacking us, and then we remembered what this spirit we'd talked to in another time had said — that the only cure for that kind of corruption was... something that would be left behind when you destroyed a spirit. So... I told him I'd tell him how he could save them while Cloud kept fighting them off.

[ he's tearing up again now, and sets the spoon back down so he can wipe his eyes. ]

And I told him what they told us. That if he wanted to save them, he had to die... and if he didn't, then he'd have to live with that.