"It is naïve," he agrees with the same muted severity. For better or worse, he doesn't sound like he means it as an insult. "Understanding doesn't protect anyone on a battlefield."

And that's all he's ever known, all he has to fall back on when it comes to interacting with the world around him. Whether he's just holding a conversation or looking for something to give him direction. Olympia seems peaceful, but even Mikazuki knows that it's not guaranteed. Still, his focus doesn't linger on something so commonplace for him, pulling a book from the stack, bound in green leather.

"I've never tried to read something about another person. What does it mean when you say made-up?"

All his reading was related to vegetables and farming.