"No, it's not that exactly." He takes another sip of his soup before he goes on. "It's because I don't care about anyone else. Who am I, after all? I'm nobody. I'm a boy from Yonchome. What makes my right and wrong better than anyone else's, or my ability to judge it more reliable? What makes me arrogant enough to choose not just for myself, but for everyone else?"

He looks back down. "Obviously I'm not Shido. But that's essentially what he does, from all I hear—he has a vision of the world, his own vision, and he thinks he's justified in acting to effect it. He doesn't care about right and wrong, or about anyone else. All our targets are that way, selfish. Lacking humility. A better person, a truly good person, would never do what I've done."