Yeah, I've left and come back twice before. This is my third time here, and the longest I've stayed. [He scratches one ear thoughtfully as he contemplates how to answer her other comments.]
If someone knew how it worked, I'm sure everything in this world would be different. No one would be forced to stay here and be put in danger... [It takes him a moment to silently amend to himself that the dead would, of course, be forced to remain.]
I see... That's a lot of times. [...] Do you like it here at all though..? [Kind of curious.]
And if that were the case, do you think there would be anymore experiments? If so, it would probably end up being really empty here during them, since not many people would want to stay for them.. [Or nobody. Aside from the dead who are forced to stay, which in that case, those times would probably be rather lonely.]
[Once upon a time, he would have hesitated about whether or not he liked Luceti. Especially during his first time, when he was 12.] Actually, I do. I've made friends here, and I like the village. But obviously it's hard to like this place much when you know you're a prisoner, and that you're being experimented on and thrown out into war zones.
[The scenario Nagisa paints gets tilt of the head from the boy as he thinks of the villagers.] We're told the experiments are done to help their research into getting us home. If we believe that, the experiments should stop.
[She smiles a bit at his answer, because yeah most of the people she's asked or heard from made it clear that they didn't like it here at all..] A-ahh... I'm glad that you do! At least, aside from the experiments and stuff. [Nobody likes those.]
..Eh? Really? [Because if that's the case, the experiments don't seem too bad after all.]
[He crosses his arms as he thinks about what they had learned. There was always the possibility that they weren't being told the truth, and they should be skeptical of the Malnosso, but it was all they had to go off of.]
I guess the idea is that this world naturally interferes with how things normally work, and randomly changes its effects per person. Even though we're all hit by an experiment at the same time, no one reacts the exact same way, right? Why that happens seems to be something that'd need to be studied. [He frowns.] It sure seems like a slow process, though.
Ooooh, I see! That does sound kind of slow though.. And confusing, too. [It.. really doesn't make much sense to her at all; it just seems weird. That pretty much goes for Luceti in general though -- abnormalities, experiments, and their strange and spontaneous results included.]
I hope they'll be able to figure it all out soon..
I hope so, too. It'd be nice to have more freedom than ... you know, only being able to leave the village to head off to battles. It's stressful for everyone. [Not that he has to tell her that; she'd been around long enough to have to deal with watching people march off for drafts.]
Mm, I agree... [She's seen enough of her friends go on drafts already. And one of them had even died..] So... We'll just have to hope for the best, right?
[While part of him wants to point out that just holding out on a hope wouldn't help much, he can understand the difficulty of dealing with war and the other horrors this world put them through.]
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If someone knew how it worked, I'm sure everything in this world would be different. No one would be forced to stay here and be put in danger... [It takes him a moment to silently amend to himself that the dead would, of course, be forced to remain.]
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And if that were the case, do you think there would be anymore experiments? If so, it would probably end up being really empty here during them, since not many people would want to stay for them.. [Or nobody. Aside from the dead who are forced to stay, which in that case, those times would probably be rather lonely.]
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[The scenario Nagisa paints gets tilt of the head from the boy as he thinks of the villagers.] We're told the experiments are done to help their research into getting us home. If we believe that, the experiments should stop.
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..Eh? Really? [Because if that's the case, the experiments don't seem too bad after all.]
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I guess the idea is that this world naturally interferes with how things normally work, and randomly changes its effects per person. Even though we're all hit by an experiment at the same time, no one reacts the exact same way, right? Why that happens seems to be something that'd need to be studied. [He frowns.] It sure seems like a slow process, though.
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I hope they'll be able to figure it all out soon..
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Yeah. It's important not to lose hope.
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Yep! So let's make sure not to, okay, Leon?
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Yeah. We can definitely do that.
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Mm! Let's! [..] But um... Thank you again for the gift, and for coming. It made me very happy!