Long after "Chariot" Angel Gray had left, Klein remained motionless in the high-backed chair belonging to the Fool.
Ever since learning that another timeline existed, a world where he and Angel had never met, Klein had been imagining his other self's mental state and the different choices he had made when faced with the same situations.
Through his subsequent conversation with Gray, he learned that even after becoming the Fool and inevitably falling under the Celestial Worthy's influence, he had remained a Guardian in people's eyes—a god who protected those around him, those he knew, humanity, and the entire Earth.
But as he sensed his other self's actions across that distance, Klein felt that the image of the Fool pieced together by the people around him was not quite so lofty.
He, too, could be afraid, could feel dread, and sometimes wanted to set everything down and hand his burdens to someone else.
When the brothers Adam and Amon had captured him shortly after he stopped George III from becoming the Black Emperor, Klein had genuinely been interested in Amon's proposal: surrender Sefirah Castle and become an angel himself. Had Amon not possessed such an awful personality, with no telling how much truth lay in his words, Klein might really have let go of everything then and there.
But Gray had told him that the Klein of that timeline ultimately won the battle of gods against Amon and became the Lord of Mysteries. At the same time, he shouldered the vital task of resisting the Celestial Worthy and protecting Earth, right up until the very last moment.
"Thinking about it carefully, I really am that sort of person... someone has to do it, and I can't leave it to Amon... but perhaps, when no one was around, that other me