[... He can't answer that question. It's not one that anyone should ever need to ask. Hearing it is horrible enough on its own.
So listening to the rest, as well...
Ah, he's not so sure that he can keep this up.]
... I want to leave, too.
This place is awful.
[Wait. He shakes his head and gives up his hold, though of course no effort is made to push Quark away. It's just... Some part of him seems like it's breaking.]
No, that's wrong. The whole world is, because it's people who are awful. You want to believe in them. You want to think they all have some shred of decency inside. But then you start to realize that word shouldn't even exist. The kinds of things they'll do, the ways they'll make each other suffer...
And you can't even do anything about it. No matter how many get put away, there's still someone worse.
Someone who thinks it's okay to try bombing an entire town. Or start some murderous cult. Or put together whatever program's forcing these.. "sessions" to keep happening.
Or make this room, even. Sure, we're so far in the future it probably could've built itself, but someone had to be there to design it, right? So what the hell were they thinking?
[... No, what's Junpei thinking? Isn't this kind of heavy?]
...
I mean...
It's something to focus on, right?
We get through this, we get out, and when I find whatever bastard set this all up, we can both go punch him in the face for making you upset.
[Is that better? He doesn't really know right now.]
Well this turned dark
So listening to the rest, as well...
Ah, he's not so sure that he can keep this up.]
... I want to leave, too.
This place is awful.
[Wait. He shakes his head and gives up his hold, though of course no effort is made to push Quark away. It's just... Some part of him seems like it's breaking.]
No, that's wrong. The whole world is, because it's people who are awful. You want to believe in them. You want to think they all have some shred of decency inside. But then you start to realize that word shouldn't even exist. The kinds of things they'll do, the ways they'll make each other suffer...
And you can't even do anything about it. No matter how many get put away, there's still someone worse.
Someone who thinks it's okay to try bombing an entire town. Or start some murderous cult. Or put together whatever program's forcing these.. "sessions" to keep happening.
Or make this room, even. Sure, we're so far in the future it probably could've built itself, but someone had to be there to design it, right? So what the hell were they thinking?
[... No, what's Junpei thinking? Isn't this kind of heavy?]
...
I mean...
It's something to focus on, right?
We get through this, we get out, and when I find whatever bastard set this all up, we can both go punch him in the face for making you upset.
[Is that better? He doesn't really know right now.]