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I'm curious. How many of us here are below the age of 20? Of those, who have served officially or unofficially during war or fighting in some capacity?

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[Why is 99% of what he finds out about technological development just horrible.] There are machines that can do such things? Is it known who designed them?

[Technology is horrible.]

yes. he's frightfully powerful.

[Of course Armin wants to ask why, why is it a holy war against one person, why technology, why any of it. But he knows how frustrating it is to be asked so many questions about a war that can't be changed by those questions.]

How do you fight against that?

[One leader, at least. His army is what overruns them, the hundreds of thousands of Akuma and the Noah pulling their chains, but Lenalee knows it is the Earl who deserves all the fear. Feeding off every tragedy in the world like a monster, only far more real than that.]

with everything we can spare. [ doesn't realise just how true this shall ring once she returns home ] it's bleak, but we can't afford to despair, or lose hope.

[ or the Earl will wield that against them ]

we will definitely win

Good.

[They're nice words. Armin goes through spurts of whether or not he believes that kind of rhetoric, but his drive to protect his friends and survive supersedes most doubt.]

I'm Armin Arlert, by the way.

[What a coincidence, that.]

lenalee lee. pleased to meet you, mister armin [ if this can be called "meeting", she still has her doubts ] i'm sorry for the manner of answers a question like this shall net you.

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A friend of mine has a saying: Don't apologize for things that aren't your fault. [Not that Armin strictly follows this policy.]

I was prepared for unhappy answers, though the scope of them still surprises.

[Not for her. Ha ha...]

that is a good saying. but i'm sorry all the same. war is ugly

Kind of you to say.

I'm a little sorry that war seems to be the thread that binds us together as well. In this place, and in our own worlds, it seems unavoidable.

of course it is.

[To live in a world where war was something possible to evade...!]

it's human to fight.

Then why do we desire peace, I wonder?

because it gives us something to strive for

That's a very pleasant way of thinking about it.

I might've said we yearn for the day we've crushed all our enemies.

[And that says more about him and his own than he may be aware of. Lenalee Lee does not pity, it is not in her nature, but her heart aches just the same.]

there will always be enemies.

Right. When it gets right down to it, we'll still have each other to concern ourselves with.

that, too, is human. but that's why we're fighting for a brighter future, isn't it?

Against all odds, we must believe we are capable of making something better.

exactly.

[ hits close to home, actually ]

so don't allow yourself to believe anyone who says otherwise

I think optimism is a trait many of us share.

But many believe there is an age limit to when you can start changing the world.

[And the sobriety which she had tried to shed closes in on her a second time, taking her smile and attempted optimism with it.]

children should nto be taken in to war.

But war finds children. Better they fight than be overtaken.

[ is glad this is text, very abruptly, very acutely ]

they are overtaken either way.

What do you mean by that?

war swallows all who fight in it, regardless of their choice to enter

Then we cut our way out of its belly.

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