We took on the boss on Floor 75. We lost 14 of our best fighters in the process. It struck me as impossible that Heathcliff could have nearly full health when the rest of us had barely survived. It was because he was Akihiko Kayaba and he'd made himself an immortal object.
When I confronted him about it, he paralyzed everyone in the room except me and told me that I could fight him then and there and, if I beat him, he'd end the game and let everyone go home.
You asked me not to do it. But so many people had died, some because of my own faults. There was little chance many of us would even make it through the last 25 floors and, even if we did, our real bodies were dying. No one had much time left. You asked me not to, but I agreed to it, anyway.
He was going to beat me. He'd destroyed one of my swords already, the one I'd had custom made, and he was about to kill me. And then you somehow fought off the paralysis and jumped in front of me at the last minute and [...]
[...] God damnit. I just keep replaying it over and over in my head.