[SERIOUSLY those damn thousands-of-years-old eternally young deities etc..!! Alas, being jealous won't help matters, and mortals like them do have enough to be happy about even with their finite life spans - namely all the good memories they've made, as she said.]

I'm sure that Ellipsa already has become a home to those from worse-off worlds. It's been that way on all the worlds I visited.

[He burns the stubby remains of his cigarettes to ashes with his fire magic and lets them disperse in the breeze, then he gets up from his seat and offers Yoimiya a hand.]

Thanks for talking sense into me, Yoimiya. If I let myself get down in the dumps like that over a loss, I'll only worry Shoto and everyone else. A samurai always gets back on his feet and fights on! Let's do our best to get stronger, but let's not forget the most important things.

[After all, he's been there before as a boy - single-mindedly wanting to get stronger and stronger, with no real aim or goal driving him except the regret of not having been strong enough before. That wasn't a good way of living.]