[Mercury stands up and moves closer to Ventus, to support him more than anything else, though she speaks to what he's said. It's a lesson they learned at a high cost in their battles with the Dead Moon and Nehellenia in their world, and the final battles with Galaxia: Light and Darkness must always exist.]

However, it's true that if this continues, that sort of balance will only be further skewed. [She's trying so very hard not to notice the emblem, not to call attention to it, to ask him about it later perhaps but not here, where people are - rightfully - frustrated by lack of progress.]

If more people are falling to the darkness even here, then it will increase further and this will continue, with more worlds destroyed.