"Hurts more people than helps...?" Yamato muttered. Well, that was the definition of his meritocracy, wasn't it? All the pitiful dregs would be crushed - as they should be - and they certainly outnumbered the chosen few who would soar to the top.

"So duty can be so easily abandoned for the well-being of others? Is that what you're saying?" It seemed a bit...wrong, to think that. Duty was to be upheld no matter what. To abandon it for something as silly as happiness of all things...