I can't...do this, Ignis, I can't be whatever it is your influence has been turning me into. I don't know how to be anything else, and it's driving me mad because I don't know what I am with you. I--I-

[Ardyn shook his head, whatever else he was going to say cut off by a choked and muffled sound, black miasma briefly staining Ignis' shirt before evaporating.]

...I'm not worth this. I can't take it anymore. Please--please, just end it.