[the tension gradually leaves him, as he grows accustomed to the hold—as strange as it still is, to a part of him.]

... Kindness is the virtue most worth pursuing—that is something my mother would tell me, when I was a child. Hate only begets more hate. Nothing lies at the end of it.

[even now, for all that hikari is furious, he doesn't know if he'd call what he feels towards his brother hate; at least, it doesn't seem to match the utter contempt mugen has held towards him all his life in turn. on hikari's own part, it's more of a grim recognition of everything that has led them here, an unyielding determination that mugen must be cut down no matter what to protect everyone else.]

I would rather have a world joined through compassion.