[That aspect of the story reminds her a little of a certain recent recruit to Delta Flight, though at least he'd had a choice in the matter. Mostly. Grabbing someone off the street just feels like dragging civilians into it.

Still, he seems to have accepted it, so she inclines her head as if to say she wouldn't argue that point.] I suppose some of the people in Delta Flight come from that kind of background as well, but even then they usually chose to join, or got tangled up in conflict and decided afterwards that they'd stop it from happening to anyone else. But it sounds like you've had a long time to come to terms with it. My world deals more in creating people like that from scratch, and not all of them are necessarily aware of that origin. I'd call comparing the two just comparing callousness to cruelty, myself.

[Creating a weapon without the knowledge that they're a weapon but still functionally treating them like one. Mikumo has more interest in things outside her line of work now, but certain things like her tweaked emotional range and essential inability to be traumatised aren't going anywhere.]