He saw right down to your very soul, to the part of you that was waiting for a chance to break out and grow.
[Dazai looks like he has something else on his mind though, something he is comparing to Oda's story there. He hesitates in telling it, though, because it's a very personal story and he's not sure if he's ready to share it.
...but maybe it will help Oda too, to hear that his experiences are common. That Dazai understands having your worldview shaken like that.]
...I met someone, some time ago. It was after I was already in the Foundation. Before that point, I tended to keep to myself. I was a D-class, and befriending other D-class agents meant watching a lot of them die on missions. There was no point to it. All I could do was work and work until I eventually died too.
But on one mission, I met someone. That person was...their life had been so, so horrible, even before they came to this world. And yet they talked about it like it was nothing. They stayed positive, even when just hearing their story was enough to bring me to tears.
You know, if someone like that person could go through so much and still keep going, then I didn't really have much of a position to whine about my lot in life. Not when I could make a difference just by acting.
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[Dazai looks like he has something else on his mind though, something he is comparing to Oda's story there. He hesitates in telling it, though, because it's a very personal story and he's not sure if he's ready to share it.
...but maybe it will help Oda too, to hear that his experiences are common. That Dazai understands having your worldview shaken like that.]
...I met someone, some time ago. It was after I was already in the Foundation. Before that point, I tended to keep to myself. I was a D-class, and befriending other D-class agents meant watching a lot of them die on missions. There was no point to it. All I could do was work and work until I eventually died too.
But on one mission, I met someone. That person was...their life had been so, so horrible, even before they came to this world. And yet they talked about it like it was nothing. They stayed positive, even when just hearing their story was enough to bring me to tears.
You know, if someone like that person could go through so much and still keep going, then I didn't really have much of a position to whine about my lot in life. Not when I could make a difference just by acting.