[At least he doesn't have to go too far into detail about pros, then, if Ren's world has something similar. As Ren sets the phone down again and makes that comment, Shun gives a curt nod, and starts up again in a similar tone to what he left off on.]
For a while, we couldn't, because we had no idea how. But finally, we got hold of Academia's technology and reverse-engineered it. We gained the level of power their Real Solid Vision had, and we gained the capability to seal people into cards as well. That was also when we found out there was no way to reverse it, when it truly became "death" to us. We couldn't do it, and Standard couldn't do it either when I went there. [But that's jumping ahead a bit, so he'll leave that for now.] That's when the Resistance was formed, and the branches of Heartland Duel School became branches of it, Spade and Clover. For a while, we focused on figuring out what the invasion was for, and eventually we found out that Academia and the Fusion Dimension wanted to fuse together all four dimensions.
To get that information, we had to fight, and even though we were all willing to do it to survive, not everyone was willing to use the card-sealing function even though it meant a defeated enemy could never return, one less in Academia's overwhelming numbers. Yuto and Ruri were always like that...neither of them wanted to hurt anyone, and that didn't change when the war began. It tore them both up even when they had to fight normally, but Yuto had more time to adjust and he at least got used to doing what he needed to survive.
[As he goes on, his voice becomes darker, colder, hinting more than enough at what's to come.] They wouldn't take lives, and I wasn't going to make them. So I did it. Yuto talked me down whenever he was around, and there's plenty of Academia soldiers still alive because of his mercy. But just as many are dead by my hand. Hearing them beg for mercy when minutes earlier they'd been laughing at our dead...it only made me want them gone more. They took the lives of my comrades and friends like it was nothing, destroyed the futures of everyone I knew, and they expected me to show them what they'd never deigned to show to us.
And then, a while into the invasion, they did the only thing they could've done to make me hate them even more. They took Ruri. [His voice becomes a low hiss of fury for a moment there before he restrains himself again.] There was a mole placed in Xyz for a while before the invasion, and he told me when I fought him later that the invasion was called so Academia could capture her. I did what was necessary to survive before that, but that was when I started going out of my way to crush any one of those soldiers I could find. I wanted information, I wanted to know how to get her back. I was so blinded by my anger I was willing to do anything to get there.
[He still sounds pretty pissed by the turn of events, but it breaks from his tone as he says that last sentence. Now that he's realised that, fueling himself purely with that spite and hatred he used to doesn't really click anymore.]
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For a while, we couldn't, because we had no idea how. But finally, we got hold of Academia's technology and reverse-engineered it. We gained the level of power their Real Solid Vision had, and we gained the capability to seal people into cards as well. That was also when we found out there was no way to reverse it, when it truly became "death" to us. We couldn't do it, and Standard couldn't do it either when I went there. [But that's jumping ahead a bit, so he'll leave that for now.] That's when the Resistance was formed, and the branches of Heartland Duel School became branches of it, Spade and Clover. For a while, we focused on figuring out what the invasion was for, and eventually we found out that Academia and the Fusion Dimension wanted to fuse together all four dimensions.
To get that information, we had to fight, and even though we were all willing to do it to survive, not everyone was willing to use the card-sealing function even though it meant a defeated enemy could never return, one less in Academia's overwhelming numbers. Yuto and Ruri were always like that...neither of them wanted to hurt anyone, and that didn't change when the war began. It tore them both up even when they had to fight normally, but Yuto had more time to adjust and he at least got used to doing what he needed to survive.
[As he goes on, his voice becomes darker, colder, hinting more than enough at what's to come.] They wouldn't take lives, and I wasn't going to make them. So I did it. Yuto talked me down whenever he was around, and there's plenty of Academia soldiers still alive because of his mercy. But just as many are dead by my hand. Hearing them beg for mercy when minutes earlier they'd been laughing at our dead...it only made me want them gone more. They took the lives of my comrades and friends like it was nothing, destroyed the futures of everyone I knew, and they expected me to show them what they'd never deigned to show to us.
And then, a while into the invasion, they did the only thing they could've done to make me hate them even more. They took Ruri. [His voice becomes a low hiss of fury for a moment there before he restrains himself again.] There was a mole placed in Xyz for a while before the invasion, and he told me when I fought him later that the invasion was called so Academia could capture her. I did what was necessary to survive before that, but that was when I started going out of my way to crush any one of those soldiers I could find. I wanted information, I wanted to know how to get her back. I was so blinded by my anger I was willing to do anything to get there.
[He still sounds pretty pissed by the turn of events, but it breaks from his tone as he says that last sentence. Now that he's realised that, fueling himself purely with that spite and hatred he used to doesn't really click anymore.]