[It is not wholly nonsensical, this claim. It could be useful to know what drove your allies, even if Hayame was not particularly used to needing it. She had been property all of her life but two precious months, and a jinba’s motivations, publicly, at any rate, were… what they were told by human masters. She’d never had to ask, herself, when it was all the same.]
And you?
[She regards him, still unsure what to think of a man hiding his entire face so.]
Do you go to Achamoth to exact revenge on those that would keep you here and end the world with you in it, or do you go to save two people who did not have the courage to bite off their own tongues before allowing themselves to be held hostage?
[If her words seem provocative… He would not be wrong. But still, she says them with a surety, a sense of judgement moral and clear, honor dictating which of those two options was the more nobler.]
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And you?
[She regards him, still unsure what to think of a man hiding his entire face so.]
Do you go to Achamoth to exact revenge on those that would keep you here and end the world with you in it, or do you go to save two people who did not have the courage to bite off their own tongues before allowing themselves to be held hostage?
[If her words seem provocative… He would not be wrong. But still, she says them with a surety, a sense of judgement moral and clear, honor dictating which of those two options was the more nobler.]