I don’t think it should be normal to talk about this.
[ oda says this with a small half-smile. he only manages to talk so casually because it was his daily life, the same way that saki had her own, more peaceful one.
he’s a little envious of it, but it’s something he can deal with—oda knows better than to wish he could change the past. ]
You never told me about your world, though. Is it really that peaceful?
[But that's a bizarre thing to say, isn't it? So she offers a reason:]
We're taught from a young age to protect the villages with our lives. Even if it means sacrificing your life to stop a fiend... any danger must be kept away from everyone else at any cost.
The villages and their safety are everything to us, because it's all we have.
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[ oda says this with a small half-smile. he only manages to talk so casually because it was his daily life, the same way that saki had her own, more peaceful one.
he’s a little envious of it, but it’s something he can deal with—oda knows better than to wish he could change the past. ]
You never told me about your world, though. Is it really that peaceful?
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It is. It wouldn't even occur to people in my home to think of purposefully hurting or killing another person.
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[ now that’s a surprise for oda. he actually looks at saki with wide eyes, like she had just grown a second head or something. ]
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[But that's a bizarre thing to say, isn't it? So she offers a reason:]
We're taught from a young age to protect the villages with our lives. Even if it means sacrificing your life to stop a fiend... any danger must be kept away from everyone else at any cost.
The villages and their safety are everything to us, because it's all we have.