brandishes a knife

[sageguidance]

aki hiding in the gy like

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[illomened]

Hm... [These are topics that fly over Souji's head, since he is a very practical-minded individual and also extremely myopic.] ...I suppose it would depend on a number of factors, but I find it hard to believe that any place with people who have individual thoughts and wills could go for all eternity without ever coming to some sort of trouble.

[sageguidance]

[ he nods. ]

Aye. That is precisely it. This is strictly between you and I, but the world he knows is no exemption to that.

[illomened]

[Oh... Hm. He just nods first.]

It will stay between us, then. [He's way closer to Alphinaud than he is to sweet Emet anyway help.] ...But somehow, that feels much, much less surprising than the idea of a utopia persisting. Perhaps there's something sad in that.

[sageguidance]

'Tis ironic, is it not? Once I would have thought the same, but I've since learned that in a world where man knows not suffering, he cannot possibly learn to cope with it when it eventually dawns upon him.

[illomened]

[If he considers it from the angle Alphinaud presents it at, it makes sense. He's but a simple lad at heart who wishes for the happiness and peace of all, but he's not a child, nor a fool; he understands that life simply doesn't work that way. And if it doesn't, why not prepare for the worst?]

That's quite a way to look at things... Having it pointed out like that, though, I can't say that I disagree.

[sageguidance]

Would that we could all go without it, of course, but...

There is no perfection to be found in life.

[illomened]

[There sure ain't, huh... But he's still smiling, regardless.]

...I suppose that it's through the imperfections that we find ourselves and know one another, though.