"Which would you rather be?" Dun asks persistently, refusing to let Kengo beat himself up in this way. "The coward who sits and watches the world dissolve into chaos around him because he doubts his ability? Or the man who charges straight into the thick of the battle, fighting for what's right in this world even if he doesn't know which is the correct end of the spear to hold? I have seen wars and death and the men who strive to repair the damage that has been done and though I wield my blade against all who stand in my cousin's way, I hold respect for those who have the guts to make their dreams a reality."
He softens and turns sombre, a rare moment of philosophical viewpoints that Dun doesn't share very often with anyone.
"Never mind what you're hearing about people returning from the dead, but we only have one life in this world. I would rather die on battlefield as a young soldier who sought to bring peace back to the land, rather than languish away on a bed from illness or old age, never to have even made the first step to fixing what's wrong in the world.
You've made some mistakes and trusted the wrong person. But you're young, you're supposed to be rash and stupid and impatient. Old people are only wise because they were fools who have done their share of idiotic antics and paid the price for it."
A muscle twitched slightly near his missing eye; that's one very expensive learner's fee for Dun, but there are other mistakes that he's made that he's come to terms with and those scars lie deeper inside him, intangible and invisible to the naked eye.
"It's only through our folly that we can grow. So do not hold yourself to your failings but rather look to them as difficult lessons from where you can learn. It's better to glean what you can now then make the same mistakes again."
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He softens and turns sombre, a rare moment of philosophical viewpoints that Dun doesn't share very often with anyone.
"Never mind what you're hearing about people returning from the dead, but we only have one life in this world. I would rather die on battlefield as a young soldier who sought to bring peace back to the land, rather than languish away on a bed from illness or old age, never to have even made the first step to fixing what's wrong in the world.
You've made some mistakes and trusted the wrong person. But you're young, you're supposed to be rash and stupid and impatient. Old people are only wise because they were fools who have done their share of idiotic antics and paid the price for it."
A muscle twitched slightly near his missing eye; that's one very expensive learner's fee for Dun, but there are other mistakes that he's made that he's come to terms with and those scars lie deeper inside him, intangible and invisible to the naked eye.
"It's only through our folly that we can grow. So do not hold yourself to your failings but rather look to them as difficult lessons from where you can learn. It's better to glean what you can now then make the same mistakes again."