I've never done it. I've been in situations where I felt there was no choice but to fight, but I've always managed to capture, incapacitate, or escape, sometimes with help. Not kill.

[ He lays out both his experience and his inexperience plainly. ]

It does happen--I mean-- [ "Happen," as if there wasn't a choice involved... He doesn't want to make it seem like something that can't be helped. He has the demeanor of a doormat, but he always faces the hard stuff. ]

Heroes do kill sometimes. It's... like a failure to me. A life I couldn't save.