The smile withered ever so slightly, taking some of the humor with it. Aigis’ speech sounded not unlike exorcists’ idea of duty--or the duty Yomi had thought exorcists believed in.
So long as they were needed, so long as they were able, then exorcists would fight and defend those who couldn’t defend themselves. A flash of steel in the darkness, toiling away in anonymity while the rest of humanity rested easy. That had been her life for the longest time--fighting and fighting and fighting, expending all of her skills on a world that barely knew she existed.
She’d been content with that, hadn’t she? Being useful.
Yomi remembered that feeling.
“Hm,” she said after a moment. “Maybe I understand. Such a simple way to live, following a single path without fail. It’s when you hit a fork in the road that things get tough.” But she hadn’t come to feel empathy, or to deliberate on life. She’d come for a practical, physical reason, and that reason had been fulfilled. “Well, never mind all that. I should get going, then. Long night ahead of us, ne?”
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So long as they were needed, so long as they were able, then exorcists would fight and defend those who couldn’t defend themselves. A flash of steel in the darkness, toiling away in anonymity while the rest of humanity rested easy. That had been her life for the longest time--fighting and fighting and fighting, expending all of her skills on a world that barely knew she existed.
She’d been content with that, hadn’t she? Being useful.
Yomi remembered that feeling.
“Hm,” she said after a moment. “Maybe I understand. Such a simple way to live, following a single path without fail. It’s when you hit a fork in the road that things get tough.” But she hadn’t come to feel empathy, or to deliberate on life. She’d come for a practical, physical reason, and that reason had been fulfilled. “Well, never mind all that. I should get going, then. Long night ahead of us, ne?”