[Ky studies the bottle while Johnny continues to talk, clearly attributing at least some of Johnny's train of thoughts to it. Still, he looks back at Johnny as soon as he starts to trail off.]

You don't need to justify your existence in order to have it. Live because you're alive, it doesn't have to be any more complicated than that.

[The crusades had killed so many people, and when Ky had gone searching for a reason why he lived while his parents did not, or why over half of the other orphans who had been at the same church as him before he joined the Sacred Order had lost contact with the church for one reason or another. For why he'd commanded soldiers to their deaths while he'd lived. Thinking too hard on that had never seemed to help, because there wasn't really anything that could be said on the subject of why beyond the fact that it had happened.]

Work and fight because you want to make the world a better place, not because you need it in order to feel alright about who you are.

[Ky tips the bottle over then, letting the vodka fall out of it and onto the ground.]

It's not good to live for the people you want to protect -- for the friends you have -- but you can be happy for them.