[ Love and suffering are two of the greatest teachers he's ever witnessed. He saw the lessons it taught SEES time and time again, he saw the lessons they taught Minato. He witnessed firsthand the return of a beloved teammate, only to lose him a short while later. He witnessed the way both transformed Junpei, took away his innocence and steeled his resolve in turn. He witnessed Aigis recalling her most impactful memories, when she made the choice to seal him away, and how she had come to care so dearly for the life of the boy she had doomed. He does not weigh the scales of judgment, but he is the arbiter of the passage of time, and he too has learned, has grown, even if the experiences weren't his own.

They paved the way for him to have his own experiences. To be the person he is now. To be a person at all. They shaped Malkuth, too, and he's so glad that she can recognize it, that she has the emotional clarity to see it that way. Each experience is precious, important, even the ones that are painful. Especially the ones that are painful. ]

Do you think that would have changed the outcome of things? Or is it more that your heart would feel less burdened, if you had told him?

[ In essence...does she regret not telling him for his sake, or her own? ]