He got to protect your captain with his death, and I cannot do the same for those I love. And I was jealous. So I resented that he was unhappy. If we could have traded places, perhaps we would have. [He wouldn't though. Not because he didn't want to be the one to die, but because living on and watching everything decay while fighting this war wasn't a duty he'd ever wish on someone he loved. And Ikki and Saori seemed to agree, it wasn't something you could do like that.]

Even now, I must say I'm a little jealous of you and your crew.

Were my family here, even from long before they'd met me, I'd take it as a chance to play around with different opportunities.

[A very deep breath.] More than that...

I do not like the position I am in.

Until now, my ways, my father's ways, have been the only correct ways of piracy. And everyone else we let burn.

Now...

[He has to watch, to be helpless, to let them hurt and do nothing about it. To let them drop like rocks if they do not learn to fly or how to get back up to try again.]

[He viewed every difference as an intrusion. And so his world shrank more and more and Marco felt that much more distant from it all.]