Because you still have three years left. [And Ayumu still had four. He'd resolved himself to find a solution to this situation, one where everyone survived. This place gave him more to work with, too.

More time. More potential for options. It was, as difficult to grasp as it was for Ayumu, somehow outside his brother's scenario. It was impossible to believe, but logically, there was no way Kiyotaka could know of this place, unless he'd met Philemon himself. It threw more variables into the scenario than he even could begin to know yet, but he planned to find them.]

Because if I kill you now, I won't be able to bring any kind of hope to the Blade Children.

[He closes his eyes, breaking his gaze away from Hizumi's.] I can't just give up on someone else's happiness. Your's or their's. I'll keep fighting fate until the end.