There's a rememberance wall nearby. There's a lot of names there... but you're right. This place has a lot of people, and I saw how battlefields look like sometimes. On Ceres, ten times more people died from the GDF than from all of Unity Group since it was formed. Maybe more.
Me neither... they were all super secret, so it was hard to figure anything out. Even major Kagura didn't say anything about them if she could help it. But...
I remember one time, when she was hurt. I talked to some of the Graveyard people.
[Izuru pauses, not really for a dramatic effect but to recall the exact words.]
They said not to worry about her because the Mistletoes aren't really people.
In some ways at least. She was made to fight, didn't have a civilian life and had lived for much shorter than most people, just like our memories only go a few years back. There were differences too, she was clearly not human for example. I think she recognized this too.
Putting your life on the line for sake of others? Soldier... yeah, soldiers do that, I guess. But from how i look at it, that's not the work of a soldier.
The Major isn't the kind of person to sacrifice herself like that... at least not unless things got really bad. If she thought she had to then odds are there wasn't.
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But yeah, don't know anyone who could just walk off being in an explosion... or any of the crap that happened before't either.
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I should've been there. To help.
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I should've done something.
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Heck, my whole job's just keeping my boss safe, and first operation with you guys and somebody dies on all our watches.
It sucks man. It just really, really sucks.
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Your places still seem pretty packed with people.
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I guess we're lucky.
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[Kagura would balk at a question like this, Izuru cares not.]
The PRAYERs wanted to do something with her? That's not fair...
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[Including Kagura.]
It's just that... yeah...
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Either way, I imagine we'll need to see what they do, they're not exactly open and talkative.
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Is it because she was a fairy? Or...
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I remember one time, when she was hurt. I talked to some of the Graveyard people.
[Izuru pauses, not really for a dramatic effect but to recall the exact words.]
They said not to worry about her because the Mistletoes aren't really people.
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[Way to poke at traumatic concerns there, Izuru.]
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These guys spoke like they know her well but it looks like they really didn't know her much at all!
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I think that might be why she cared more about us than she did most people.
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At the very least, she died on her own terms. Choosing death over subjugation to the enemy.
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The Major had months to live at most. She would rather die now than become one of the PRAYER. And her death let the rest of us get to safety.
Being a soldier means you put your life on the line for the sake of others. And sometimes, that means you lose it.
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[Izuru considers something deeply.]
Putting your life on the line for sake of others? Soldier... yeah, soldiers do that, I guess. But from how i look at it, that's not the work of a soldier.
It's a work of a hero.
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[Peola shakes her head slowly.]
I mean... nobody's invincible but she's one of the last people I thought would get brought down.
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Wsa there really no other choice?
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It's not right. It's not right at all.
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You're right, but it still feels bad.