[ To be fair, he’s not exactly trying to find common ground here… Or, more accurately, he doesn’t really think it’s possible with Hayame. These are the kinds of arguments he would genuinely offer, but she doesn’t strike him as the sort to really, well. Care. ]
Is it not? Why, even a wolf would despair a bit if every rabbit in the world were gone, would it not?
[ The predator-prey relationship is clear with that comparison, but he still elaborates a bit more. ]
You are simply upset that my attachment is not based on emotion or sentimentality. But as I’ve neither of those things in any meaningful way, what is there but the practical? No creature wishes to starve, including myself.
[If it were one thing Hayame was, it was sure... whether it hurt her in the end to be that rigid or it didn't. She did not bend until she broke. And maybe, just maybe, having a demon in her head has caused cracks to form, but she-]
I'm not upset about what your attachment is or isn't. I am saying that you not wishing to starve is nothing at all in comparison to those with far nobler or more honorable goals.
[ Sebastian laughs easily and warmly, and even if he’s not any more thrilled about her anger, it’s at least more fun to provoke it himself. It’s why he catches the implication and digs in. ]
[Thankfully... There were apparently things she was capable yet of guarding from him, even in her own head. Because judging by the flash of deep-seated self-hatred that flares when he asks that...]
No.
[She might be doing what she is out of honor, a desire to atone, but she would never claim that her goals were noble. Not after what she'd done to require it be necessary.]
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Is it not? Why, even a wolf would despair a bit if every rabbit in the world were gone, would it not?
[ The predator-prey relationship is clear with that comparison, but he still elaborates a bit more. ]
You are simply upset that my attachment is not based on emotion or sentimentality. But as I’ve neither of those things in any meaningful way, what is there but the practical? No creature wishes to starve, including myself.
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[If it were one thing Hayame was, it was sure... whether it hurt her in the end to be that rigid or it didn't. She did not bend until she broke. And maybe, just maybe, having a demon in her head has caused cracks to form, but she-]
I'm not upset about what your attachment is or isn't. I am saying that you not wishing to starve is nothing at all in comparison to those with far nobler or more honorable goals.
[... She doesn't say "like me", but-]
But what would a demon know about that anyway.
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Oh? Nobler and honorable goals like your own?
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No.
[She might be doing what she is out of honor, a desire to atone, but she would never claim that her goals were noble. Not after what she'd done to require it be necessary.]
Not like mine.
[You presumptuous bastard.]