[ .. her voice trails off without saying anything more for a moment. Chizuru really has to think about this one. It's not like she was really born into the mindset, which makes it a little harder for her to explain, and then there's the fact that this also feels like one of those cultural differences she has to explain on top of it - making it double as difficult.
But Viktor has been so kind in always listening to her, so she wants to at least make an effort. ]
It's a little bit more difficult than that. [ She settles on after a moment, watching the last remainders of her sparkler burn out. Chizuru sounds very thoughtful about all of this, knowing how rough of a subject it is for those men she cares so much about back home. ] Using the sword, being a samurai.. It's a way of life that's entirely tied up in the way the world is. And with how much the world is changing.. It's changing in ways that will probably make that way of life impossible in the future.
[ It's hard to explain just how much it feels like the entire world changes when your country has preserved the exact same culture for hundreds of years, only to suddenly have it overwritten from the outside. ]
Um, sorry. I know it probably all sounds really hard to understand. [ Especially since it's not like Viktor comes from the same place as her. ]
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[ .. her voice trails off without saying anything more for a moment. Chizuru really has to think about this one. It's not like she was really born into the mindset, which makes it a little harder for her to explain, and then there's the fact that this also feels like one of those cultural differences she has to explain on top of it - making it double as difficult.
But Viktor has been so kind in always listening to her, so she wants to at least make an effort. ]
It's a little bit more difficult than that. [ She settles on after a moment, watching the last remainders of her sparkler burn out. Chizuru sounds very thoughtful about all of this, knowing how rough of a subject it is for those men she cares so much about back home. ] Using the sword, being a samurai.. It's a way of life that's entirely tied up in the way the world is. And with how much the world is changing.. It's changing in ways that will probably make that way of life impossible in the future.
[ It's hard to explain just how much it feels like the entire world changes when your country has preserved the exact same culture for hundreds of years, only to suddenly have it overwritten from the outside. ]
Um, sorry. I know it probably all sounds really hard to understand. [ Especially since it's not like Viktor comes from the same place as her. ]