I think he's underplaying himself. Still good to share the credit, though.
Both are underplaying themselves.
The difference is that he's not trying to be a Brave. He's trying to do what he believes in.
That definition of someone fighting for their own desires being a first-class moron is so off.
What he's saying is that fighting for others because others told you, and fighting for others because you want to are two different motivations. A little different from how I put it, but it's a related idea.
Well that was way too many words and poor wording to essentially just say "the reason I fight better, have more luck, arrive for important battles exactly when I am needed and not before or after, and get all the girls... is because I only fight for myself. While you fight for everyone but yourself, forsaking your ego in the process."
Also really doubt that difference is capable of having that effect, since aside from the first listed effect, the rest is all pure RNG (even that last effect, as most of those came from meeting the girls at crucial moments too)
Considering how central this is to these two characters and how they relate, I think it's important to not just skip it over with the minimum amount of dialogue.
I think the actual difference would be how they cope with it, and how it changes them. If you always do things for others, it's going to wear you out, but if you do it because that's what you want to do yourself, it makes you stronger. So short-term the effect would be negligible, but long-term effects similar to this would set in, only they would be more of the chronic type.
There's also a subtle difference in how you come across. But while it's subtle, it still accounts for why Aina fell for him and not for the guy she'd spent a lot more time with.
I know I said this in a previous chapter but they really should have switched the titles of Brave and Hero. Be Brave enough to be someone who chooses their own path and the Hero is the one chosen to do the right thing it makes so much more sense that way.
Yeah, it always throws me off. A Hero is the Chosen One. A Brave is someone who rises through his own powers and get similar recognition. Or something like that.
(The word Brave has now ceased to look like a word to me.)