There's nothing else we can do, Marco. Sometimes all we can do is just sit, wait and hope, as annoying as that is.

[Pain slips into Ikki words for a second. He sighs, wondering if he's even saying the right things... But it's the only truth he knows, his own experience and he's not the type to shut up just because it's not nice.]

You're going to be a phoenix forever, whether we like it or not. And people insist on seeing the figure of a phoenix as one that has hope tied to it, because we will always rise again. If we stop having hope, we may be committing the worst sin possible.

[He says this now, but he himself probably will want to throw away hope and whatever later on. That's how Ikki is.]