Your personal worth isn't measured by your skills, Itaru.

[ Hien's voice is quieter when he says that as he leans back to the edge of the spring. He drinks another shot. Man, no matter how many years pass, this sort of thing just hits him like a truck every single time. ]

Shitty people can have magic and overwhelming physical stamina and it wouldn't make them a better person. Yeah, maybe kindness won't get you too far in a capitalist society, but at least you'd be likable and loved by people who you want to be loved by.

[ Another shot. ]