He seems to... withdraw, for a moment. "I... I don't know. Not really. Maybe we throw everything we've got at Bahamut and it's still not enough, and it's all inevitable. But..." He's not quite meeting her eyes, anymore.

"We have to believe that we can do it. Because if we can't- if we start to doubt our own abilities, we'll lose for sure. And there's too much riding on this. Too much riding on us."