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We know all about risks, me and Tenpou. We’re soldiers, you know. It’s kind of our job, even up here. Maybe especially up here, what with that “no killing” bullshit.
Goku doesn’t. Not really. Too young, too inexperienced, too innocent, just too Goku. All the better. Kids aren’t supposed to know the kinda shit we do.
Konzen, he doesn’t know either. Not as well as he thinks, leastways. Gotta feel love to fear loss, and before Goku, Konzen just…didn’t. So says Tenpou, anyway. Time I met him, he’d already gotten all nice and attached. Goku does that to you. Walk a mile on a bed of nails if you can see him smile. Start a hopeless battle if it’ll save his life. Lie to his face if it keeps his heart from breaking.
Lay down your life to give him a chance to really live, wild and free and open like only Goku can.
Konzen’s starting to see now. Starting to see what Tenpou and I knew would have to happen. Sacrifices are gonna have to be made. Me and Tenpou, we’re soldiers. We’ll be the first to fall, but we won’t be the last.
Don’t call it risk. Call it freedom. Call it life.