Aria is so, very close to realizing the contradiction between living for revenge and living for herself. It's almost painful to watch someone so slow on the uptake. No one should let her enemies live, rent-free inside her head.
Aria knows that the lying, robbery, and murdering of noblemen cause so much suffering from experience of her own death, so why is she participating in their games as a loyal, little cog in the machine? She came so close to her own personal enlightenment with that spark of insight while...