[ Emotional, then, she thinks at first, but another thought counters it: if it's only that, then how does it kill? There must be a physical price, one she cannot apparently tell, but he still wishes to use it. Even if it can hurt him. This is what he must do for his world, and this new power he has, if he ever has the need to use it, he may do so here in this world. Therefore, it may also potentially help this one. It's easy to conclude that it would be useful to encourage him to continue practicing with this power-- and... isn't that what she's doing with him here already?

She's about to ask him what he needs this ring for, but it's an answer he's already given, and words she has already said to him: "With more power you can... protect what you wish to protect. Who you wish to protect. The sunrise you saw that day, is that part of the future you wish to safeguard?"

"...Yeah, of course."

He already seems to accept that bearing this ring is necessary to use to protect those for whom he cares; he's acknowledged this as a truth. ] Seeing the dawn with your friends... it is worth calling upon the power of this ring, isn't it? If you had to.

[ However, it's not that over which he's melancholy, she thinks, but that-- what? What is she's missing, that it makes him more isolated, because it's something he can only bear alone? Or that he's not doing it effectively enough? Or that he hadn't done this sooner? ] I only wish that you didn't have to [ She struggles to find a word, but then ends up with this: ] punished for it. [ That's what it seems like to her. Maybe power should have pain as a deterrent so that it may not be abused, but she could never see Noct as being among the type that would. ]