About Gyro and chapter 95

Mummykun said:
Saving the boy's life was just the reason why Gyro decided to enter the race, but it had never been established as everything that mattered to Gyro.
There were a lot more important things at stake, such as the collection of the corpse parts, helping Johnny to regain the movements of his legs, strengthening his personality so as to be able to beat Diego by craving more, saving Lucy's life, and defeating the president so as to make sure that he and Johnny as well as their families wouldn't be persecuted afterwards.
Guaranteeing the kid's freedom was just Gyro's initial goal, and not his only goal. Gyro's entrance in the race only gained more and more meanings along the way rather than losing any.
Even the release of the boy because of the end of monarchy may be understood as something that occurred because of divine Providence, especially considering how Gyro was shown going to Heaven in the end, so his strong wish to save the boy's life may have been granted.

Yaboyblunty said:

Nah it was
Gyro was written as a kind hearted person from the start and they established how he didn't like the executioner system
Also Gyro didn't know how **bizarre** the adventure was gonna get

Mummykun said:

Yes, the idea was that in order to save the boy's life he had to win a race; not to fight against terrorists from his country and the president of the United States.
And considering how much Gyro clearly cared for the race itself and his skills as a jockey, it's implied that Gyro had already a long experience riding a horse and a personal interest in the sport itself (even more than Johnny despite the fact that Johnny was from a family of jockeys while Gyro was not), so he thought it was a good idea to participate in the race to save the boy's life while doing something that he liked to do, and doing it while having in mind that, besides saving the boy, by winning the race he would have a lot of money and glory.
So I think it really made a lot of sense for a young man that he was to feel a personal interest in taking part of such exciting adventure while being able to tell himself that he wasn't doing it for vanity but for a noble cause.
It's not like Gyro was accepting to be tortured or to sacrifice his life to save the boy. Perhaps he would deliberately actually accept to sacrifice himself for it, considering how good Gyro was, and how he grew personally attached to the boy, but this wasn't even the case; It was really just a matter of winning a race.

I do not remember it being shown that he didn't like the executioner system though. He certainly was shocked at first when he found out about his father's job, but he probably accepted the system afterwards. It was just the boy's execution that he was strongly personally against because he noticed that the boy was innocent.

@troilus_05s
If you just consider them as numbers, then yes, it seems irrelevant what Gyro could achieve by saving just one innocent person from execution among many others. But Gyro didn't think like that; He thought that saving the life of one individual human being was an important cause by itself, regardless of how many other innocent people may be dying because of the execution system.
And it may also be worth mentioning that Gyro acted on impulse. He did not calmly calculate things thinking about the consequences of his actions in the long term. He was clearly going through an internal struggle because of that particular case of the innocent boy who would die though the job that he was inheriting from his father, so he saw the proposal of going to the race as a glimmer of hope to be able to ease his conscience.