[It's a tough question for someone like Luke--someone from a relatively normal world, in which there are no miraculous recoveries. People die, and that's that. But he's been here for so long that to keep thinking that way feels narrow-minded.]
More than I did before. [If he's honest; he was not in a good place, early on.] I know Shoma and Yuri have been working hard over there--the others have too. And with the Senior Crew starting to remember things, our chances of figuring this out are getting better and better.
[...]
But people are still getting hurt and dying every week. I won't be satisfied until we can put a stop to that.
[In the end, his priority is still protecting the living.]
Little we can do from here to stop that. But they'll be fine -- if a month and half of this didn't break them, they probably can endure whatever's ahead.
[You humans and also races other than humans have proven to be so dang stubborn. Which is great when it's not directed against her, turns out. When it's on her side of the issue, then it's not bad]
[It would be difficult to endure it if everyone dies and gets stuck over here, but he doesn't say that--it's a little too pessimistic, even for a staunch realist.]
Resilient and foolish. I'd say you need to be both to truly change one's fate.
[The humans who make pact with Daemons have both enormous willpower and also must be fools for, you know, reaching out to otherworldly things in the first place. Of course she'd think that kind of humans are the ones likelier to force it all to go their way -- and in her opinion, there are enough currently alive to make it happen]
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More than I did before. [If he's honest; he was not in a good place, early on.] I know Shoma and Yuri have been working hard over there--the others have too. And with the Senior Crew starting to remember things, our chances of figuring this out are getting better and better.
[...]
But people are still getting hurt and dying every week. I won't be satisfied until we can put a stop to that.
[In the end, his priority is still protecting the living.]
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[You humans and also races other than humans have proven to be so dang stubborn. Which is great when it's not directed against her, turns out. When it's on her side of the issue, then it's not bad]
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Yeah. They're pretty resilient.
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[The humans who make pact with Daemons have both enormous willpower and also must be fools for, you know, reaching out to otherworldly things in the first place. Of course she'd think that kind of humans are the ones likelier to force it all to go their way -- and in her opinion, there are enough currently alive to make it happen]
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I can't argue with you there.