Itsuka looks over at the disheartened Sol.
The youngest of Takamagahara, excluding Princess Kawaii, now looks uncomfortable and unsure of her new group and their completely different views.
Itsuka calmly walks over and puts her hand under Sol’s chin, lifts her head up, and gives a warming smile.
Itsuka: "I know it’s a shitty situation to think about in the first place, and I don’t bla you for wanting to stop all the unnecessary violence in the world, Sweetie. It just proves how good of a person you truly are, Sol.
But by trying to prevent all negativity, sooner or later it leads to everyone having their freedom taken away and will create more negativity from resiliency.
In the world we live in, even without the ice aliens and without alien eyes that give us ’magical abilities’, there is selfishness and n who believe taking, conquering, and winning wars, is the truest and only forms of justice."
Scylia: "I know this may sound like the most extre case, but in a society without the ability to defend one’s self, the families of that society would be getting separated and forced into slavery by the conquerors.
Girls like , you, Itsuka and Shelly, we would be shackled and owned by gross, savage n, who would also act 1000 tis more feral than those pompous ’Sisters’ back inside those mountains."
Sol thinks about the reason she was exiled from the mountains in the first place and thinks to herself.
Sol(thinking)*The only reason I’m alive is because that man, Nona, was too spineless to kill , if it were so barbarian that I had punched in the balls...*
She shivers thinking of the horrifying possibilities.
Sol: "But there were countries before the apocalypse that did ban civilians from owning weapons and they never got invaded.
We collectively as humans have learned from history that invasion is wrong."
Scylia shrugs with her hands up.
Scylia: "Once humans believe history won’t repeat itself, it will soon repeat itself, Sol my dear.
There are nurous examples of those sa assud pretenses, from societies and groups of people who shared that sa philosophy. But those who doubt the possibility, end up being pillaged, raided, and conquered by people who purposely weren’t taught the sa history.
Selfishness, hatred, and oppression have existed, still exists, and will exist long after we’re gone."
Sol pans over the group trying to change her perception on the topic and Char steps up.
Char: "Listen it’s not up to us to decide how you feel about certain topics.
You’re right, so evil cowards will see these self defense weapons and use them as an unfair advantage to end multiple fragile lives, but that’s all because that coward was mad at the world and saw their point of view as the ’only’ point of view.
With nobody to help their misguided mind, and no finger to point them in the proper direction."
Saku is looking at the gun he took from the Armory.
Saku: "And you probably only feel like you do because you only heard about the unfortunate events where innocents got hard. Unfortunately, the news only reported on the successful killings, but they never reported on the unsuccessful attempts that actually happened more frequently. It’s almost like they wanted to not only give the loser who killed innocent people infamy, but also insensitively kept reminding the families of the victims just because ’views’.
Truth is, most mass killing attempts ended with those invertebrates getting justice, because they assud nobody in their selected ’crowd of victims’ had the ability to fight back."
Shelly looks at Sol and unsheathes the katana strapped to her back.
Shelly: "And we aren’t talking about just firearms either. Bad guys will always target those weaker than them and try to sneak attack because they know it’s the only way their weak ass can successfully cause fear."
Saku raises his eyebrows at Shelly.
Saku: "I think that’s one of the few things we will ever agree on."
Shelly sheathes her katana and doesn’t give the snide comnt any attention. Saku looks at Sol.
Saku: "And when an ard good samaritan is in that crowd and is just as strong as the asshole trying to hurt others..."
With his finger on the trigger, safety off, he looks right down the barrel of his own handgun.
Saku: "...And those scumbags catch a dose of their own dicine right to their neck."
Sol gets irritated and Saku shoots her an irritated look back.
Saku: "What? Does it really matter if it’s a ’trained professional’ that saves innocent lives and stops the bad guy, or a ’good civilian’ who is more connected to the group being shot at in the first place?
If that’s how you feel, then you don’t actually care about the innocent, you just want to be right or the one in control.
Cuz lets get sothing straight, ’Ms.WorldPeace’, there are evil people that see antagonizing violence as the one and only option for their happiness and their purpose in life.
At that point, you can’t have an outco where nobody dies in the end."
Sol looks at the SunSword attached to her left hip, and bites her bottom lip.
Saku: "This isn’t one of Katsu’s ’happy-ending’ fictional cartoons or a religious afterlife where ’...they all lived happily ever after’ with the good guy saving the world and all his friends from death and chaos."
Katsu gets upset but more from the misinterpretation of the way his favorite stories were told.
Katsu: "Hey! First, not all of them ended with happy endings.
Second, the best role models make everyone stronger around them to save the world. Together. As a team.
You know?
Like sports?"
Saku: "Ok, nerd, whatever you say."
Sol looks down at the ground and Itsuka gets caught off guard from the quiet sobbing of the young dark skinned girl.
Itsuka: "Are you okay, Sol? We didn’t overwhelm you, did we?"
Sol: "Why? Why does there always have to be a negative?
Why do people kill each other?
Why can’t we live in a world where people simply don’t harm or put themselves before each other, even when there is a common enemy?
Negative humans always have to ruin everything! It’s so stupid!"
Katsu’s ears perk up from hearing a slightly different version of the question he asked his mother 3 years ago, just a few hours before Hell landed on Earth.
Everyone thinks quietly for a second, but Daisuki is still focusing on the pocket knife. He is now trying to rember sothing, then Katsu speaks up to answer one of the most pondered questions in philosophy, asked by a 16 year old girl.
Katsu: "You’re right, Sol.
I truly do believe you’re absolutely right, Sister Sol. No human should go as far as to kill another, for any reason. Because in the end, killing is killing.
But so people are COLD. Those who believe causing violence will bring them happiness, are ntally still animals.
However, those COLD people only exist because people like you exist, people who are kind-hearted and caring for others."
Sol is caught by surprise after being blad for the existence of evil in the world but she starts thinking about the Division Leader’s words.
Katsu realizes he may have sounded kind of harsh and waves his hands in front of him to dismiss any hostility.
Katsu: "I’m sorry, Sol! Please don’t take that the wrong way!
It goes the other way too, good people like you exist cuz those shitty people exist too.
For the positive to exist in this universe the negative has to also exist."
Everyone, except Daisuki, looks at the Yang vessel. Katsu is looking at Saku now, no hostile expression.
Katsu: "It’s the balance of the universe itself.
For a star to shine bright enough to create life, a black hole must also exist sowhere to destroy whatever is in its dark and devastating gravitational pull.
When my Dad first talked to about the universe and taught about the ’Big Bang’, he told his theory of the process that may have led to the beginning of the universe.
He believed it was the result of ’art’ from both a creative and a destructive force.
Like the balance of positivity and negativity between people, for the universe to exist, creation and destruction must coexist."
Katsu turns towards Shelly and she blushes while hearing Katsu’s ’smart side’.
Katsu: "Depending on which individual you ask, ’creation’ can be seen as either a positive or negative and vice versa for the opinions on ’destruction’."
Saku raises one eyebrow and looks over at Itsuka. She points to her ear, then at Katsu, to signal him to keep listening. Saku rolls his eyes.
Katsu then looks at Aiden who locks eyes with his Academy friend.
Katsu: "Since physical matter is presumably infinite in the universe, the only thing that actually keeps the universe ’alive’, is..."
Saku realizes the sa thing as Shelly and Aiden at the exact sa ti.
All Four: "...Forms of energy!"
Itsuka, wanting to be part of the group, begins thinking about the introductory level theoretical physics ’puzzle’.
Aiden: "Katsu, I didn’t know you were into theoretical astrophysics?"
Katsu chuckles and rubs the back of his head.
Katsu: "I can really only regurgitate the easier things my father would talk to about.
After he was given ti off of the military, my father went to college to major in theoretical astrophysics, evolutionary biology, and astronomy.
He was kind of a genius.
My mother, unfortunately, was unable to graduate as a psychologist/sociology major because my father was called to action in another country, a year after I was born.
They were both able to easily explain their complicated fields of knowledge to over dinner, car rides, or whenever we hung out.
As for the focus and determination to actually sit in a classroom and study all that science....I don’t know where those smarts went. Haha."
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