What else are they supposed to do?! They know that these people are somehow involved, and if no one's turning themselves in to explain -..!
[Maybe it's a weak defense, but it's all Atsushi's got. In spite of everything, he wants to believe in the city that took them in. People do strange things when they're scared; he can't blame Olympia for hunting down the only people whose involvement they have any evidence of.
He also can't blame the accused refugees of being afraid to turn themselves in, but... that's exactly why he's been hunting terrorists!]
If the fugitives don't turn themselves in, bringing in the actual culprits is the only thing that can get them off the hook. It's the only thing that can turn things back to the way they were!
[And that's what he wants, in the end: a simple, quiet life, missing so many of the people he knew before, but with many new people to make up for it; a community of refugees displaced from their own world, but banding together to form a new one; a city full of kind people, and opportunities for anyone willing to work hard.
It's been as close to paradise as Atsushi could have imagined life on another planet to be - until now. He doesn't want to let go of it yet.]
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[Maybe it's a weak defense, but it's all Atsushi's got. In spite of everything, he wants to believe in the city that took them in. People do strange things when they're scared; he can't blame Olympia for hunting down the only people whose involvement they have any evidence of.
He also can't blame the accused refugees of being afraid to turn themselves in, but... that's exactly why he's been hunting terrorists!]
If the fugitives don't turn themselves in, bringing in the actual culprits is the only thing that can get them off the hook. It's the only thing that can turn things back to the way they were!
[And that's what he wants, in the end: a simple, quiet life, missing so many of the people he knew before, but with many new people to make up for it; a community of refugees displaced from their own world, but banding together to form a new one; a city full of kind people, and opportunities for anyone willing to work hard.
It's been as close to paradise as Atsushi could have imagined life on another planet to be - until now. He doesn't want to let go of it yet.]