FFXVI Part 3 – Quest 1 — Heavy Shackles

Heavy Shackles

Thirteen years ago, the Summoned Beast of Fire who killed his younger bother was [Clive] himself——
Unable to accept that reality, Clive sinks into despair.
[While] Clive was like that, Cid took him outside [the Hideaway].

Kokuyōka: “despair” here has both the idea of “despair/desperation” and “self-abandonment”.

The Wages of Guilt

Clive discovers that the second Dominant of Fire, the one who slew his brother thirteen years before, was none other than he himself.
His resolve to see Joshua’s murderer put to the sword undiminished, he begs for Cid to grant
him death—
—but Cid has other plans for his tortured ward.

重い枷

13年前、弟を殺めた火の召喚獣は自分自身だった——
その事実を受け入れられず、自暴自棄になるクライヴ。
シドはそんなクライヴを外へと連れ出す。