The meaning behind "내게 그런 사람을 죽게 만든 게 아인이야". Metaphor or not?
I've been reading a graphic novel and came across this moment:

D: Have you ever been in love?
D: In that all consuming love that you just couldn't stop yourself from feeling coz that person means the world to you,
D: even if you know that he's the worst human ever and everything (their feelings I guess) is just wrong.
B: Are you talking about Ain?
D: No.

And then D adds:
!!! 내게 그런 사람을 죽게 만든 게 아인이야. 아인의 몸에는 그가 죽어가면서 저항한 흔적들이 있어. !!!
So, Ain killed that person / made that person die. And on his body he's got traces that that person left dying (he's got a bullet mark on his chest and a knife scar).

And here comes my question: Is it some kind of metaphor? Meaning that Diesel (the speaker) was really bad in the past and Ain helped him find his way? Or did Diesel loved an awuful person and Ain killed that guy/woman?
Is there some kind of indicator that can help understanding what he really means?

Thanks a lot in advance!!!

Question

The meaning behind "내게 그런 사람을 죽게 만든 게 아인이야". Metaphor or not?
I've been reading a graphic novel and came across this moment:

D: Have you ever been in love?
D: In that all consuming love that you just couldn't stop yourself from feeling coz that person means the world to you,
D: even if you know that he's the worst human ever and everything (their feelings I guess) is just wrong.
B: Are you talking about Ain?
D: No.

And then D adds:
!!! 내게 그런 사람을 죽게 만든 게 아인이야. 아인의 몸에는 그가 죽어가면서 저항한 흔적들이 있어. !!!
So, Ain killed that person / made that person die. And on his body he's got traces that that person left dying (he's got  a bullet mark on his chest and a knife scar).

And here comes my question: Is it some kind of metaphor? Meaning that Diesel (the speaker) was really bad in the past and Ain helped him find his way? Or did Diesel loved an awuful person and Ain killed that guy/woman? 
Is there some kind of indicator that can help understanding what he really means?

Thanks a lot in advance!!!

Answer

There is no word or anything that indicates it's a metaphor - metaphorical expressions usually have no telltale clues.

But the sentence does sound like a metaphor to me, probably because it sounds too far-fetched for anyone to associate with the person who caused the death of someone they loved.

Of the two possibilities you listed, the first one doesn't seem to make sense because what it is saying would mean Diesel had been in love with himself before Ain helped him to become a new person.

Another possibility I can think of is that Diesel was in love with Ain all along, but at some point Ain changed drastically and became a completely different person (and in the process acquired bullet and knife scars).  Diesel doesn't like this new Ain and feels he lost the person he truly loved, so he says (the new) Ain is the one who made his love (the old Ain) die.

It's just an impression I got from the sentence and the preceding dialog.

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