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If you refuse to take up arms against them, the guerrillas will clean up the mess.

What is that expression? You can't possibly think I am the honest and noble man everyone makes me out to be?

Someone like that would've been dead long before the fighting even began.

What's honorable besides reigning victorious and safeguarding the fruits of victory? Triumphing over the enemies you loathe in battle is by its very nature an honor, but that doesn't mean I take pride in my sacrifices.

If a decision leads to victory and fewer dead comrades, then that's the right decision to make.

This city is already on its last legs. It's likely been in service for much longer than it was intended. It's not going to last another three years.

Both you and I know that they are doomed to be stranded in the tundra. They'll still have to find a way out in the end. But, with the city, they bought themselves a tiny bit of hope, even if it's just for those three years.

I'm not going to crush that hope of theirs.

You're fine seeing your team get torn into two?

No. I already told you... they were never on the same team as us to begin with.

I'm not going to give you the 'the weak cannot go to battle' excuse you've been giving me. All I'm saying is not everyone thinks the same way we do.

We'll have many people join our ranks. But not all of them are working towards the same goal as we are.

We're just borrowing their strength. We aren't exploiting it. If we forced them to do our bidding, we would only be making them work against their own goals.

And that's how you get them to actually start doubting each other and feel alienated.

All for the sake of unit purity, is it?

If that's what you want to call it. I'm not sure I'd describe it like that, though.

If nothing else, I can tell you are a righteous person.

There's a unit stationed nearby guarding the trade route, and they're much better trained. You know things are bound to go wrong.

I don't want to admit it, but you're right. They just might do that, so we'll prepare for that.

The Yetis... intercepted the message already.

You're right. The nomadic city sent a message out. They tipped off the Ursus troops in the area our location.

...They want to draw the Ursus Army's attention to us.

No one wanted this battle to happen.

Their foolishness will slowly lead them to destruction.