Mine would not. [Switches a little more into phoenix, though not all gone yet.]

I am not a wildfire like Ace. I can't burn like him, and I'm not so... temperamental, eh? I admire it, but it's not something I can do.

Even if I asked Ace to marry me, there would reach a point of something even I can't fight. Even if I can force the scientists or this planet to keep him here for a long and happy life, that's still...

[But he's gone at that point, curling up as a phoenix in Japan's lap.]