[Is that it? Jade isn't certain. It is irrational, like Jade's pained outburst when he thought Peony was dead. It is not necessary. Perhaps what he is doing now is another way of being irrational in the face of a loved one's death.]

Perhaps it is that kind of selfish desire. [Not really looking at Shintaro, Jade frowns.] No. It is certainly a selfish and irrational impulse. I would like to believe that it is possible for people to change and for sins to be atoned for. There are better people than I whose ideals for the world I wish to see carried out.