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To add color to this colorless world, is that right? Ah, that is but a rhetorical question so don't go out of your way to answer it. ^_^;;; I do have but one real question, though. Does anyone know where I could download some crossword puzzles for my phone, this bracelet, or where I could purchase a book of them?

[A beat.]

Also, those maids are surprisingly durable. Such a mystery. ^o^!!!

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It's no different from what you're doing.

No, not really.

Why's that?

Because there is no way to avoid causalities even if people everyone trained and prepared for the worse. No one is prepared for war. There is nothing that can be done beyond minimizing the amount of deaths, and at the moment, no one here seems to understand that.

It is unfortunate, but the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Would you rather everyone die, or just a few? Because with how people have been responding and the messages I have see, it is going to be the former rather than the latter.

When people are getting closer to battle, they will hopefully be able to see that they need to think of how to lessen the damage and casualties rather than save everyone.

To be honest, there's a lot we don't understand. About the bracelets or about what the Gods really want. I wouldn't let anyone die. There has to be a way we could manage. Then do you think it's okay to make sacrifices?

That much is obvious.

That is impossible, and as for the question about sacrifices, it isn't about sacrifices. It is about what is going to happen.

Are you talking about the war? I can't say I like it. They're involving children and people who can't fight.

Yes.

Do you not understand what war is? What it truly is?

I don't know the answer to that.

It is a simple "yes" or "no" answer.

I told you I don't know.

Hm.

You reminded me of someone just now. :)

Who would that be?

A young man that I met that could not make any decisions, because he was afraid of the consequences.

That sort of thing happened?

What did you do?

I tried to get him to make a decision.

In the end, he didn't. It worked out, luckily, but it would have worked out better if he had chosen the end himself.

The end?

Yes.

It doesn't matter here what happened with that young man, but the lesson remains the same. You should always try to make your own decisions. After all, things happen whether you do or don't do something. And I can tell you this -- you would rather say you chose what happened then let things happen.

Then you'd have to take responsibly for it.

What would happen if your decision ends up affecting things you don't know about?

It's better to think things through carefully.

That is what life is.

If you take too long and never make a decision, that affects things you don't know about, too. I suppose you won't have any responsibility because you did nothing. But to say that you let it happen because you did nothing, is that not far more depressing than the latter option?

I'm not okay with doing nothing forever. Sometimes you have to do what's necessary.

I am happy that you realize that much.

Indeed. And that is what war is.

You seem to know a lot.

Because I live and make decisions.

Do you ever regret making them?