Because life is painfully, terribly, horrifically cruel, my love. [He gently pushed Yuuri's hair out of her eyes, hands dropping to her shoulders.]

But the point is that all our struggles and pain brought all of us here, to each other. I know that it hurts--I know even that is a tremendous understatement. The point is that you can keep fighting for as long as you're alive, to take that rigged game and work against it as hard as you can rather than give in and allow it to playout.