The Roxxon conflict deepening, the reactor threat becoming citywide, Miles making the decision to continue each time the cost presents itself. The risk is both the physical danger and the relational one — the people who might learn his identity, the lies required to maintain the secret, the specific risk of being Miles Morales in a suit that marks him as someone worth shooting at. The worth it is the game's affirmation: not comfortable, not clean, but worth it.