[Byleth shoulder twitched slightly, again, unused to such casual contact, but he didn't shrug him off.]
No. I dislike having to decide who is a lost cause and who isn't.
[You abandoned lost causes - they were a waste of time and resources. The best kindness you could give them was a clean death. Byleth had perfected the art of pragmatically deciding such things, but it still wasn't pleasant to do.
Heartless, people called him. Perhaps he was. He was experienced in switching off the empathetic part of his mind when it came to such harsh choices. But he had to turn it back on eventually, and when he did... he disliked it. He'd rather have Arval literally backstab him several times over again.]
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No. I dislike having to decide who is a lost cause and who isn't.
[You abandoned lost causes - they were a waste of time and resources. The best kindness you could give them was a clean death. Byleth had perfected the art of pragmatically deciding such things, but it still wasn't pleasant to do.
Heartless, people called him. Perhaps he was. He was experienced in switching off the empathetic part of his mind when it came to such harsh choices. But he had to turn it back on eventually, and when he did... he disliked it. He'd rather have Arval literally backstab him several times over again.]