Kasai took another bite out of his burger. "Yup, you're right. The training hurts like hell, it's lonely not having any family with you, and future generations will probably ruin the world again. But if we can stop the world from ending and save the lives of the few people who really care, then I'd feel like I'd done the right thing for once in my life. But as awful as the training is, it's not fatal. One of 'the children' can't be killed by their own element. So their lives aren't really in danger. It sounds impossible, but it's true. They must have lit me on fire a thousand times, and for the first fifty I couldn't do anything. It hurt like hell, but I never died. Now if someone stabbed me, or something, yeah, I could die, but...well it's the reason we were born. And you don't seem like the person who would abandon the innocent just because you have a grudge against the guilty. Because that's what the future generations are. They're innocent, and if we just gave up... if's not just us that's at stake here. It's /everyone./ Believe me, if it wasn't this important I'd have bailed out on those APEX bastards that put me through that torture ages ago. All the 'children' feel the same way you do, but we're not fighting for these APEX jerks. We're fighting for all the little kids, and future heroes that haven't been given a chance yet." He smiled, "Personally, I'd like to be a father some day. I'm not giving up just yet."