Something shocked me during episode 134, when Ginga talks to Chris.
So, here an excerpt of the discussion:
Chris: Stop it! Just pretty words! You could never understand what I feel.
Ginga: Yes. You're right. I can't fully understand how someone who was abandonned by his friends and forced to fight all alone feels like in day in and day out moments. (...) But I do understand one thing. Chris! Even after that you still did not give up beyblade, did you? (...) Even while facing such hard times you did not give up beyblade. You continued to battle. The truth is did you love beyblade.
Do you notice?
Chris goes all taking about his past and Ginga is just "Poor of you... I can't even imagine how you cope with all of this". I mean... I see the beginning of the serie.
"I can't fully understand how someone (...) forced to fight all alone feels like in day in and day out moments."
This is basically Ginga's situation before and during the first episodes of Beyblade Metal Fusion. He spent months alone, traveling to fight and avenge his father's death. He knows exactly how it feels.
There are three possible explanations:
1. The gang needed Chris' help as fast as possible, and venturing onto this ground would have taken a lot of time.
2. Ginga didn't want Chris to feel bad for making the wrong choice. Everyone on the planet heard about Ginga Hagane and his feats. If he had said he had lived the same thing, then Chris wouldn't have any excuses for working for Nemesis.
3. The most disturbing. Ginga didn't think he could compare his situation to Chris' and believed Chris went through much more than him.
With the way Ginga is used to hide his negative emotions, I feel life the third theorie is the most fitting (somewhat intertwined with the second one).
Ginga put the others' feelings (in particular their pain and sadness) above his own, as if what he went through is nothing but what they live is everything that matters, as if his actions and his personal experience have no merit while they deserve every words of compassion and of congratulation.
Ginga does it again in Shogun Steel, when he witnesses Zyro's and his friends' attack of the Dark Nebula Castle. He's impressed by their will and their efforts, while he did the same (and so much more) when he had their age.
