C'est la vie, indeed. [life and death, all mixed up in time. He closes his eyes]]

If I could choose how to die [where it mattered] it would be after-- it would be seeing-- helping-- [but he can't even say it. Ace become Pirate King. That was a lie, though, wasn't it? The ultimate dream of nothing. How strange that he could handle Pops dying and Marco living but the utter unfairness of someone he'd believed in so much--]

--trading my life for one who could do so much more with it than I could comprehend. One who could change the world.

[but in the end-- in the end it hadn't happened that way]