Because... The last time I saw him was years ago for me. And a lot of things have happened, but... Not there. They all happened in Nautilus and I changed, I know it.
[Ikki frowns.]
Back then when he was awake, I always kept myself away from them, I didn't want to mingle with them. I would fight alongside them when they needed me and vanish when it was over, even when Shun tried to beg me not to. I even hid my Cosmo so no one could track me down even if they tried. I loved them, they were my world but I never said it or showed it.
[He crosses his arms and shakes his head.]
That me would have never wrote that letter for Ace even if it was true. Nor would I be here talking with you like this even if I wanted to. So... I'm not the Ikki he knows.
And I'm not sure I want to be, not with everything I know and remember. But if I'm not the way he remembers, he probably will think that I'm a fake or something.
[Of course all this is Ikki mostly assuming that all his brothers just took everything he did and say at face value and conveniently forgot how he was when he was a child and they were together in the orphanage. Nevermind that it was Seiya the one who remembered it the most and who also pointed it out to him once when they fought because the pegasus refused to accept that Ikki had turned into some cold blooded monster that would kill them all.]
action
[Ikki frowns.]
Back then when he was awake, I always kept myself away from them, I didn't want to mingle with them. I would fight alongside them when they needed me and vanish when it was over, even when Shun tried to beg me not to. I even hid my Cosmo so no one could track me down even if they tried. I loved them, they were my world but I never said it or showed it.
[He crosses his arms and shakes his head.]
That me would have never wrote that letter for Ace even if it was true. Nor would I be here talking with you like this even if I wanted to. So... I'm not the Ikki he knows.
And I'm not sure I want to be, not with everything I know and remember. But if I'm not the way he remembers, he probably will think that I'm a fake or something.
[Of course all this is Ikki mostly assuming that all his brothers just took everything he did and say at face value and conveniently forgot how he was when he was a child and they were together in the orphanage. Nevermind that it was Seiya the one who remembered it the most and who also pointed it out to him once when they fought because the pegasus refused to accept that Ikki had turned into some cold blooded monster that would kill them all.]