I must. My friends are standing on the battlefield without me. The person most important to me is unprotected while I am here. My men are waiting for me to give them orders.

...No one will tell me what the future brings, but I have a feeling I already know. And I must follow it through to the end.

[He smiles faintly and touches his side where his sword should have been.]
I wish to be with them, until the end.