When family disappoints...

[kill_all_vagans]

General Hetepheres... she actually killed her own...

[Flit's seen some ugly shit ever since the incident at Nora.  But filicide is in a league all of its own and Flit can't even begin to imagine a situation where his mother -bless her heart- would have to kill him.  Or he in turn have to fight and possibly even kill a child or grandchild.]

Those... are the kind of hard choices you have to make if you want to save people, aren't they?

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[herodrawing]

She was an enemy, right? It's not that the enemy forced her to be a hostage or anything...

[kill_all_vagans]

With everything she was saying and doing... if they'd forced her into all of that then they hid it really well.

[herodrawing]

You're right, but... that's still isn't fair!

Those Anti-Earthling Party guys act high and mighty but they force families to fight each other!

[kill_all_vagans]

And... and more than that...

[Oh man. Gears are turning in Flit's head.]

... How did they think that battle was going to end? Hetepheres's daughter was given every chance to retreat but didn't, and Hetepheres would just turn around and let a city burn...

Whoever sent her knew one of them was going to die and didn't care.

[His hands ball up into fists.]

What kind of person can actively make a choice like that!?!

[herodrawing]

Someone who is just as evil as Wulgaru.

[kill_all_vagans]

Or the UE.

[herodrawing]

Yeah. We have a lot of dangerous enemies, don't we.

[kill_all_vagans]

We do. And no matter how much we might like them to stop, so many of them aren't going to on their own.

We need to be strong. Strong like General Hetepheres.

[herodrawing]

I... don't think I can be strong like her.

Maybe in the future. But not now.

[kill_all_vagans]

I don't think I can be like her now either. But I'll have to learn to be sooner or later. I decided to become the AGE-1's pilot so that I could actually fight to protect people, and along with that I'll need the resolve to not back away from the tough decisions that can mean the difference between life and death for people.

[herodrawing]

Tough decisions you say...

[Izuru ponders something for a few moments.]

If someone from Unity Group, someone you know turned out to be a villain and threatened to kill a lot of people, would you be able to fight them?

[abugslife]

[Poke, poke. It's one of the Gebians - which one, hard to tell.

The aliens offers something to Flit. It's a pudding.]

[kill_all_vagans]

[Looks like Leos isn't the only one offering these to people in need of them any more.]

Thanks. I... probably need this.

[He takes up the pudding, helping himself to some of it before looking back over at the Gebian.]

Can you talk? I mean, communicate like the General can with us?

[abugslife]

[The Gebian pokes at a tiny touch screen repeatedly, and then hands it over to Flit.]

no but I can do this

[kill_all_vagans]

[He looks over at it and... smiles.]

I'm sorry you had to go through the trouble of learning our languages. I hope it wasn't difficult...

[abugslife]

I am actually using a translator chip right now
after one of us learned your language, the rest only had to do this
it's very convenient

[kill_all_vagans]

I can certainly imagine... and whoever took the time to learn it still probably had to work very hard too.

[For a moment, Flit actually is forgetting he's talking to an alien... what a wonderful thing communication like this can be...]

[abugslife]

I'm glad that wasn't me
my work is important, but that means its already hard enough
still not as hard as your job though
or general's

[break_the_nine]

...I don't think I could do something like that...I just... I...

[Leos is shaking pretty badly.]

But she's acting normal Flit. I don't get it... I know she's really strong but how can she not cry even just a little?

[kill_all_vagans]

Maybe... maybe because she feels she has to be.

... Helping protect the Earth means she has to be a general first and a mother second...

But even then she kept calling Mukantagara "Mukan" instead. Like a nickname that she would've... given her when she was young.