[Far from being encouraged by her answer, Sheik's shoulders sag as though weighed down by regret as she speaks. She's just... too much like Link, really. Ever since the very start, when she told a young girl she believed her and promised to help her no matter what. It makes all of this that much harder for him, and Gina will feel it as a chill sweeps through the Temple's sanctum.]

... You don't have to be, you know.

[There isn't a whole lot of energy in his argument, his voice low and melancholy. He knows this particular fight is one he's already lost, but still... he has to fight it anyway.]

All of this... it has nothing to do with you. Hyrule had already fallen long before you had ever heard of it. Even if you had been able to travel between the worlds, there was nothing you could have done to stop it. Such is the cruelty of time.

[Because that girl would never be convinced out of her own foolish plots. Can he truly say that he's changed at all since then? All this time, has he not had his plans for how he'd guide Link towards his destiny and then spare him from consequences of it? And yet Songerein has shown him that the peace he envisions will never last.

This is for the best. Better for him to stay here, alone, than cause further issues for any more innocent people like Gina and Link.]