[He absolutely had faced the dragon alone, and the beast's blood had soaked into his very flesh and left him Changed. No army could fully take him down afterwards, but he had his Responsibilities, and he couldn't abandon them.

Siegfried glanced up at the people on the street and in their balconies, carrying their groceries and watering their plants. It was quaint, almost like--]

I didn't wish to kill Fafnir, but my home in the Rhineland would have been in danger. In the end, the treasure it coveted was left in my care... And I used it to help others, as much as I was able.

[No matter how much he spent, it would never be enough to fully deplete it. Thus was the nature of a cursed legacy.]

It would have been better for everyone if Fafnir's rage could have been soothed by song. Even if you weren't able to do as much as you wanted to, you accomplished a feat that many would never dare to dream.

Such matters sound like a terrible struggle for you... and yet, you still seem like a fine person.