[That gets him to huff a laugh, and even though he's too large right now to do much else, he still reaches up to stop those tears with a fingertip.]

Oh...I told you before, did I not? I would do anything for you. I would move the entire ocean if it meant keeping you and our children safe and happy. No matter what happens to me...I have fulfilled my purpose if I can do that much.

[Besides, Poseidon has the strength needed to protect others...and since having his children, and now Megami...he has far more to protect than he ever did before. He even has more incentive to want to protect humans, even though he still did so before.]

I love you, so much...and I cannot believe that I did not pursue that when I had the opportunity...when we first met, and I took that egg home beneath the sea.