You're right. We have enough to worry about in the present without concerning ourselves with past hypotheticals.
[He sighed wearily, something in his tone beginning to develop a professional distance.]
...You and I have to be selfish from here on out. It isn't that we have any more or less to lose than anyone else, but we need to be sure we keep what we have. The name of the game from now on is 'self-preservation', you understand? If things should get difficult wherever you station yourself, escape. Protect and save who you can, but you have to survive and come back here.
[That was the nature of a magus. Survive at all costs, even at the risk of others. In most cases the method served the purpose of passing down the family's Magic Crest--for Waver, it aimed to preserve both that and things far more valuable.]
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[He sighed wearily, something in his tone beginning to develop a professional distance.]
...You and I have to be selfish from here on out. It isn't that we have any more or less to lose than anyone else, but we need to be sure we keep what we have. The name of the game from now on is 'self-preservation', you understand? If things should get difficult wherever you station yourself, escape. Protect and save who you can, but you have to survive and come back here.
[That was the nature of a magus. Survive at all costs, even at the risk of others. In most cases the method served the purpose of passing down the family's Magic Crest--for Waver, it aimed to preserve both that and things far more valuable.]
Is that clear?