Five years with almost one death per year may actually count as long if you see each death as a rebirth.

[Ikki pauses at Marco's next words, he had never considered that Guilty hated himself... Or anything at all. The man made a point from the start to keep Ikki from getting attached to him, always berating him for respecting him as his master. Talking about his life would have been the opposite of what Guilty did.]

Maybe he did. I doubt Guilty was his real name and he always wore a mask, I thought it was so that I wouldn't see him as a human being, but maybe there was more to it. I don't really hate him now anyway, I actually don't feel much about him now.

[The only way Guilty stirs emotions in him is by remembering Esmeralda and her death, nothing more.]