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What do you live for?

[Anyone who's been in Johto for a while might recognize this text coming from this gear.

But things are so different from when he last asked.

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I'm sure you will.

I'm sure you have, already, too.

[Because when you're with someone who is so plainly good to live for something like that, you can't help but do some good along the way. Ken is absolutely sure of that after Johto.]

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Just because you were chosen? Or because you want to?

I live for my my friends. I want to protect them, I want to pay back everything they've done for me. I want to live because they've put so much into helping me live. They're the closest thing to a family I have.

[Directly or indirectly, Ken owes every single one of his friends his life and survival.]

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... You're like a friend of mine, I think. He never gave up on us.

It's what most people live for... But it's something. A year ago, I didn't even have that.

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I think there has to be. There has to be someone good to balance out the bad.

I'm different from what I used to be.

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Nothing's fair, but if there wasn't something good... nothing would be left.

You could say that.

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Not where I'm from. But I guess it's different in other places.

I used to be really angry. All I ever thought about was myself. All I thought about was how bad things were and how much I hated everything.

[Not that he's not prone to stupid anger, now, but he's... much more mellow, at least.]

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I'm not mad, anymore.

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It blinded me to just about everything.

I didn't even think about everyone who cared about me.