[ She says it without rancor or accusation. He's not that sort of guy--she does believe what Mash and Da Vinci have said about him, that he's kinder than he might initially appear, but Ritsuka knows very well that kindness doesn't necessarily mean that kind of selflessness. Neither of them come anywhere close to qualifying as saints, no matter how well they treat the others around them.
He's not a savior. Neither is she. ]
Scandinavia and China were almost the opposite of that. China especially. Everything the people could need or want was just given to them, almost immediately. No one was sick, no one went hungry... and in Scandinavia people were protected and cared for, as long as they stayed in their villages.
But that's the thing. It was like... their needs were being met, and it was like all the life had just been sucked out of them. There wasn't any fight in them at all. They believed everything that the Lostbelt Kings told them.
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[ She says it without rancor or accusation. He's not that sort of guy--she does believe what Mash and Da Vinci have said about him, that he's kinder than he might initially appear, but Ritsuka knows very well that kindness doesn't necessarily mean that kind of selflessness. Neither of them come anywhere close to qualifying as saints, no matter how well they treat the others around them.
He's not a savior. Neither is she. ]
Scandinavia and China were almost the opposite of that. China especially. Everything the people could need or want was just given to them, almost immediately. No one was sick, no one went hungry... and in Scandinavia people were protected and cared for, as long as they stayed in their villages.
But that's the thing. It was like... their needs were being met, and it was like all the life had just been sucked out of them. There wasn't any fight in them at all. They believed everything that the Lostbelt Kings told them.