Y-yeah, uh... One of the times we stopped in before, um... this other spirit told us that the only cure once someone started changing was... this stuff that would be left behind when a... material... um... a spirit with like, a solid form, was destroyed. A-and that you had to do it early or it wouldn't work.

[ his hands are balled into fists, pressed hard against his knees, and he looks down at the floor. ]

So, um... when the others attacked, Cloud fought them off while I hid with him, and I told him what that other spirit told us. That... if he wanted to save them, he'd have to die.

I didn't... I didn't tell him what was going to happen to the world if he didn't. S-so when he said okay, it was because he wanted to save them, and not... not because he felt guilty...