"While my family are all fighters..." he looked distant again, "That's not enough to protect them. If anything, it draws a target to them."

He fixes her with a soft serious expression. "The strongest in the world only creates an aura of mystique where everyone seeks that strength for themselves."

He ran a hand through his hair, "If I could be everywhere at once, I couldn't do the other things I need to either, eh?" A shrug. "Sometimes all you can do is your best, and remember the fallen."

Not that it would stop Marco from trying to change time itself, at least a little, here and there, wherever he could.