I did attempt to stop Xehanort, when I first found out his ambitions. [He rubbed his face, but lingered longer over the scar on his cheek, flinching as if the scars were hurting all over again. He had never told any of his students how he'd gotten those scars...but perhaps now, they had some idea.] I tried, but I failed.

[And the knife-twisting just continued. Eraqus just leaned forward, his face buried in his hands, saying nothing for awhile. Kura quickly became agitated at how tense both his master and the others in the room were, and began to scamper back and forth between him and Ven and Wheeler, chittering at anyone and everyone. It still took awhile before Eraqus spoke again.]

Ventus...I don't know what more I can say. I believed those actions to be the best to take in those circumstances, but I was wrong. I acted out of fear and mistook it for prudence. There was so much I didn't know, and I believed that not knowing would be better for myself and my students...

I can't make up for what has happened. But...please believe that I cared about you. I still do.

[The last part, however, made him look up towards Ven again, his expression unreadable. The X-Blade...made, but then destroyed? And Ven had made that decision himself? Had Terra and Aqua actually helped him?]

Destroyed? But...

[A large part of him was now wondering...what was Xehanort doing now? How much of what had happened was his intention all along...surely Ventus destroying himself to destroy the X-blade couldn't be intended? But then why were so many of them here, when they believed themselves asleep or dead? He'd never felt simultaneously so determined and so hopeless.]

...And now there's again too much that I don't know.

I've been a fool.