Oh, I won't deny that. I was that desperate person, remember? And my Game was more of a fucked up disaster than most.

[He shrugs, and takes a drink out of his coffee.]

It's not all glamour and happy endings. Most people don't make it to the end. Plenty don't even make it close. They'll shoot each other to take rivals out of the running, cheat in any way they can think of, and sometimes in the end it's all for nothing.

And I won't even pretend it's fair, because it isn't. Even when the Game is winnable, it isn't fair.

But I'd Play the Game a thousand times more than do what I did for Shido another day.