[Admittedly, that is enough to quell some of Sanji's immediate concerns, and his stance softens; had he thought that Yams had no one to go back to, it would have been a question of what he needed to do to correct that problem -- either by bringing Souji back to him, or whisking the sword away to a world of piracy.]
... And what do all of you swords do at the Citadel?
[Again, questions he never asked. It doesn't feel good confronting that fact, either.]
When we're there, we care for it. The fields, the horses, we train, things like that. We help new swords adjust, when they're successfully summoned. [It's not a terrible life, at least. But--] It's our duty to preserve history. So when we're sent to battle, we travel to the past to make sure the Time Retrograde Army doesn't change anything.
[It's not a bad goal. Changing the past could very easily make the future far more terrible than it already is.
...It just also means ensuring that events happen exactly as they always have. It means watching the same tragedies unfold, powerless to prevent an unfair or tragic death. Sometimes, it even means ending the life of someone dear to you, by your own hand.
And it's why he'd been more than happy to look the other way, when Okita mentioned traveling to other places, healthy and content. Yasusada doesn't necessarily want to change history, and bring ruin on the rest of the world--but he most certainly isn't going to complain about Okita getting to live, the way he always should have.]
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... And what do all of you swords do at the Citadel?
[Again, questions he never asked. It doesn't feel good confronting that fact, either.]
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[It's not a bad goal. Changing the past could very easily make the future far more terrible than it already is.
...It just also means ensuring that events happen exactly as they always have. It means watching the same tragedies unfold, powerless to prevent an unfair or tragic death. Sometimes, it even means ending the life of someone dear to you, by your own hand.
And it's why he'd been more than happy to look the other way, when Okita mentioned traveling to other places, healthy and content. Yasusada doesn't necessarily want to change history, and bring ruin on the rest of the world--but he most certainly isn't going to complain about Okita getting to live, the way he always should have.]