Mikumo can't say she's surprised about that last part, though the way he puts it gets a dry laugh out of her. "I can imagine. Sometimes people have to reach low to defend themselves, but people who haven't been in that position are often ready to judge regardless of the situation."

Since her whole life has been war, she has a fairly flexible lens as regards the morality of that sort of thing. If he's doing it to protect himself and not hurt innocent people, she doesn't really see the issue.

"Though I suppose I see it more often with people who haven't adjusted to the battlefield yet. Newcomers who aren't prepared to take an enemy's life to protect civilians even though they know what they signed up for."

Mikumo phrases it like something she's completely used to, even though it's understandable for it to be a moral quandary to people who've only just entered a war for the first time.