Huh. Now there was an angle of it Aoba hadn't considered. He was quiet briefly, doing just that.
"If we assume that anyone I asked would be willing to come... I absolutely would, I think. For all that you say humanity achieved even greater than this before the war began, you're still leagues better now than things are back home. There's more space, more advances... and if there were no war, people could go anywhere they wanted. Not be stuck in cramped Districts with gangs fighting over territory and other stupid things like that."
He crossed his arms a little, wondering. "It's hard to imagine Granny leaving that little house, or Koujaku giving up all the attention he gets doing women's hair. Mizuki has his tattoo parlor. I'm a junk shop clerk. Haga-san has been kind to me, but it's not exactly a classy job when you think about it. Except for them, I really don't have anything tying me down, but I think it would be different for them."
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"If we assume that anyone I asked would be willing to come... I absolutely would, I think. For all that you say humanity achieved even greater than this before the war began, you're still leagues better now than things are back home. There's more space, more advances... and if there were no war, people could go anywhere they wanted. Not be stuck in cramped Districts with gangs fighting over territory and other stupid things like that."
He crossed his arms a little, wondering. "It's hard to imagine Granny leaving that little house, or Koujaku giving up all the attention he gets doing women's hair. Mizuki has his tattoo parlor. I'm a junk shop clerk. Haga-san has been kind to me, but it's not exactly a classy job when you think about it. Except for them, I really don't have anything tying me down, but I think it would be different for them."