And there's those parallels again.

Link's eyes drift over to the Sword in the corner. A holy artifact, one he was chosen to wield. Not exactly the same as Noctis's situation, most likely. But similar, all the same.

"...Didn't the darkness need to be defeated?" he says softly. Because even if being chosen had been...difficult...Link also need that it had been necessary. It wasn't a duty he would choose to set aside, even if he could.