'I am not fighting just to protect her, even thinking so is egotistical. I am fighting to help all the natives, to save as many lives as possible. I am fighting because I cannot stand the thought of the servers being shut down!'
'I do not think of myself as a hero, but I can't just sit out of a war... I guess this is a key difference between me and Erik.'
Eldrian didn't dislike Erik for his wish though. It was normal to not want to be part of a war. Eldrian realized that he was strange in wanting to fight.
In willingly endangering himself to help as many as he could. It wasn't something everyone was willing or even capable of doing. This was made even less normal with those he was endangering himself for being 'fake'.
Be that as it may, he wasn't going to try and change himself nor his friend.
He had long since accepted that not all things were rational and logical. Some things just couldn't be explained.
