A few hours had gone by as Ryo sat there, unable to accept the truth of the situation, his misguided actions. A sin. A sin against humanity. The gravest of sins: theft. And what had been stolen? The life of a young boy around his age.
The percentage of people who actually go through with homicide is relatively small. If you took into account the population of his home world, roughly seven billion individuals, the number of people who commit the forbidden act of denying another their life would be far, far less than one percent of the total population.
