"So, have you made a decision?" said Ryoji, Minato said nothing he was spacing out still thinking it over.
"What do I do? I…I don't want to run away from this…but if I do kill him and I end up fighting Nyx, how will everyone deal with this? Everyone says they're ok and ready to bring down Nyx but, what if they die? All that suffering, pain and death….it'll all be my fault. I'm not afraid of dying after everything that's happened this year, but what if I'm not strog enough to take Nyx down? Everyone will die from my weakness…Junpei….Mitsuru…..Akihiko…Ken….Koromaru…Fuuka…Aigis…..and…..Yukari" he kept thinking what to do and kept thinking which choice was right. Finally Ryoji nudged his shoulder waking him from his deep thoughts.
"Hey are you ok Minato-san?"
"What? Oh uh yeah, I'm ok."
"Alright, have you made your choice, please don't let the idea of killing me influence your decision." Minato then realized something, if he killed Ryoji, forgot everything, and let the fall happen what good would it be? He remembered what he told Yukari when she asked his reason for fighting; he said to her that his reason for fighting isn't to prove something or to gain anything, but to protect the people he cared about from being hurt. He promised that as long as there is a breath in his lungs, a beat in his heart, he'll protect everyone from harm. If he killed Ryoji he would be breaking that promise.
"Ryoji, I've made up my mind."
"Good, what's your decision?"
"Ryoji, I'm not going to kill you." Ryoji's face saddened as he heard that
"I didn't want to show you this, but I guess I have no choice." Suddenly Ryoji changed his form right before Minato's eyes, Minato was shocked to see what was in front of him, Ryoji had become a human sized version of Thanatos, his persona.
"Wait so then, that night…..the night I first summoned my persona…..that was" Ryoji interrupted him before Minato could finish
"Yes, now you see the truth…..I'm not human, so you shouldn't have second thoughts on killing me. So what is your decision now?" Minato stood up straight, he knew what he had to do he knew the easy way out was killing him but Minato didn't always do things the easy way.
"Ryoji, this world, this life, it belongs to us. It belongs to everybody, it's the greatest gift we have as human beings, and it's our home if nothing else. So my answer is we will stay, we will live, we will fight, and we will win." Ryoji changed back to his human form after Minato's declaration of hope.
"Very well, it's your life and your decision…..so I'll respect the choice you have made. But know this there is no going back after this choice is made final." Minato nodded
"That's just a risk I'll have to take then."
"Nyx can't be defeated you know, it's impossible."
"Well she's undefeatable because she's never been defeated her and nobody's defeated her because nobody's ever tried. Nothing impossible not after everything I've, no, we've gone through up to this point. I believe that together we can win." The two walked out of the room and down stairs to tell the others the news.