Still, We Press On (8)

"You expect me to believe that?! Someone who didn’t fight to take back the world, but just betrayed humanity and got in our way...!"

"I’m glad you’re alive. But I agree with Merry-chan. You could’ve just stayed out of the fight... Why did you have to interfere? If you hadn’t, we’d surely have made much more progress toward taking back the world by now!"

Kagami acknowledged Yuki’s words with a quiet, "Well... maybe you’re right." He knew that was one way of doing things, too.

But Kagami also understood that it would mean far too many sacrifices, with no end in sight.

"All you’re doing is fighting over claims to territory. I have no interest in that, and I don’t have time to get involved."

"You’re calling it... just a war? Don’t mess with me! How many of our comrades do you think have died up to now?! Do you think we haven’t been fighting to take back the world?!"

"Now, now, don’t get the wrong idea. I’m not trying to insult the people who died fighting. And my feelings are a little different from yours, but they’re the same in spirit. I want to save this world, too. I want to make it a world where the people of Earth can live happily."

"Then why?!"

"The way you’re doing things... you’ll never save the world. The killing itself is futile. Didn’t any of you ever feel that something was wrong?"

They didn’t understand what he meant. But Kagami’s pitying expression made them instinctively sense that his words held some deeper meaning. Merry and Yuki exchanged bewildered glances...