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"Yes, CS. One life. One small, broken life—that's enough. That should be enough. No innocent life should be too small to matter. No innocent life should be too small to be saved. That's what I believe. That's what the people around me believe. That's what Bundschuh believes. And that's what I thought you believed. Because we have to be better, otherwise—what's the point of all this?"
"I'm not questioning the entire movement. I'm questioning one specific branch of it. All the other Dragons are unknown to me at this point, and I will examine each branch individually. And I have little doubt that there are more worthy individuals among the Dragons."
"It doesn't matter who their primary target was. They committed their act with the full knowledge that harm to the child was inevitable, with the possibility of her death. They contemptuously used this child as a bargaining chip in their dealings. As currency to buy themselves the opportunity for this assassination."
"Perhaps this child would have grown up to be better than her parents. Perhaps not. However, it is not for these people to decide. You don't need to tell me about hunger. As you remember, I spent most of my life at Pittsburgh, in poverty and without a roof over my head. Not knowing if I will have anything to eat in the next day. And if someone like those Dragons ever decided that my life was worth eliminating some fat cat, I'd never be here. Think about that for a second."
"Let me ask you straight: what was the purpose of this act? Because killing one person won't change the system, and their calculations on someone else's mistakes are based on pure assumptions. As far as I'm concerned, all they've achieved is a ruined life and another push into the radicalization of Kusari society. They've essentially aided their own enemies. A few madmen blew up a shrine, unlike what you did to the imperial envoys, hardly shows weakness in the state machine. Don't tell me you don't see the key difference here. I know you are smarter than that. Just being stubborn for some incomprehensible reason."
"We're not terrorists. That's the label state is so eager to pin on us, but fear of ordinary people shouldn't be our primary tactic. We must give them hope and an alternative... Not drive them even deeper under the heel of autocracy, seeking salvation from us—those who should be their saviors."
"And you call me liability? After everything I've done these past months? After all the alliances I've forged? After all the enemies I've destroyed? You have no right to say that. This fight is as much my own as it is yours. I risked everything for Bundschuh. And I have every right to complain about your new friends. They've done nothing for us except offer unsolicited moralizing. They're completely irrelevant. Even their appearance in Mu was more of a hindrance, allowing the Core to detect us sooner and deploy more forces to intercept. But for some reason, you prefer them and justify them. Perhaps you should consider joining their command? You want me to ask Revenant, a possible pawn of this monster who threatens everything I hold dear? Viper, whose subordinates try to kill me almost every day? Do you think I care what they think about that?"
"You speak very confidently on behalf of everyone. But I don't think you're in the absolute majority of the Platform on this matter as you think."
"You can keep your own opinion. However, from now on, don't drag the KLA into any matters for which I bear personal responsibility."
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