[When he is trying hard to remind himself these are weapons made by man… and yet… and yet,
do they truly deserve his generational ire when, like him, they are their own person now, like this? When they are less sword and more human—and yet how he despises the humanity in them.]
I understand now.
[His hand moves from Matsui’s shoulder to Matsui’s head, resting there.]
We can’t change their destinies, but it is not weak to mourn for our failure to them.
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do they truly deserve his generational ire when, like him, they are their own person now, like this? When they are less sword and more human—and yet how he despises the humanity in them.]
I understand now.
[His hand moves from Matsui’s shoulder to Matsui’s head, resting there.]
We can’t change their destinies, but it is not weak to mourn for our failure to them.