The reason behind their pain and my biggest regret

Sophia who was being carried by Bernard, weakly struggled to open her eyes and watched the whole thing and couldn't help but wonder what was behind the reason why he was so adamant about helping her because he was literally surrounded from all corners by several second years student who were far stronger than he was, any first years would be scared shitless, however just from how long he had been going at it, he wasn't, what's more, there was even a rank 7 symbiote user who was personality showing himself, yet he wasn't even thinking about abandoning her and was still trying to put up a fight.