[He puffs up further, but with pride rather than irritation now. Well, he guesses Kariya can't be awful if he realizes that.]
The Moon Cell. [The correction is a little patronizing, but the information is so basic to him that he can't help himself. He considers whether or not he wants to explain the subject for a moment, then asks,] Do you know what photonic crystal is?
[The question is, for once, nonjudgmental in its delivery.]
Only seven? [Once again, that information surprises him. That their realities are "very different" is so obvious he doesn't even comment on it.] At the start of the War, there were over one-hundred Masters, and that's not counting the ones that couldn't even make it through the prelims.
[Though the much larger amount of participants doesn't make him feel any less special for qualifying. If you consider the number of people in the world, under 130 people is still nothing.]
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The Moon Cell. [The correction is a little patronizing, but the information is so basic to him that he can't help himself. He considers whether or not he wants to explain the subject for a moment, then asks,] Do you know what photonic crystal is?
[The question is, for once, nonjudgmental in its delivery.]
Only seven? [Once again, that information surprises him. That their realities are "very different" is so obvious he doesn't even comment on it.] At the start of the War, there were over one-hundred Masters, and that's not counting the ones that couldn't even make it through the prelims.
[Though the much larger amount of participants doesn't make him feel any less special for qualifying. If you consider the number of people in the world, under 130 people is still nothing.]