[He flushes and nods slowly.] I know that, believe me, I've always known.

But I don't know what I want my own path to be. Picking a course could have plenty of disastrous results, eh? Not just for me, but my whole family, for millions around us, those I always called friends and allies. It's never an easy thing to tell someone you care about they'll have to fend for themselves, eh?

Besides, the only thing I really know that I want, whether or not my father would normally hold me back, is revenge. [And Whitebeard would hold him back. Did hold him back several times. Marco wants that revenge bad enough he can constantly taste it. But he's not willing to sacrifice his family to get it. He can't, he won't.] Kaidou, Blackbeard, Akainu, Doflamingo, all of them. That's what I want, but it's not in my grasp yet. Not yet. [But biding his time... He was good at that. Unless he waited too long.]