[Susan will react as if uncertain what to do with the hands at first before simply holding them gently.]
...Not at all, Sonia. I... There's much I have to learn from you as well.
I was a bit... well, dismayed, for lack of a better term, about how fervently you tried to get Gundam to confess the truth yesterday. I suppose I must have known, early on, that what he had seen was the kunai in Beat's throat. To save May, he had made his decision. And... I would not have pressed him further - if that was what he wanted. I would have done the same thing he had done in his situation.
But you were right. Hiding the truth doesn't get us anywhere. If I had chosen to execute him and the facts came out later, it would have been the worst mistake I would have ever made - worse than Ukraine, far worse.
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...Not at all, Sonia. I... There's much I have to learn from you as well.
I was a bit... well, dismayed, for lack of a better term, about how fervently you tried to get Gundam to confess the truth yesterday. I suppose I must have known, early on, that what he had seen was the kunai in Beat's throat. To save May, he had made his decision. And... I would not have pressed him further - if that was what he wanted. I would have done the same thing he had done in his situation.
But you were right. Hiding the truth doesn't get us anywhere. If I had chosen to execute him and the facts came out later, it would have been the worst mistake I would have ever made - worse than Ukraine, far worse.