[Adachi doesn't mind correcting his English, amending it cheerfully.]
I wonder how bad it would look if everybody knew each other's body count. [Adachi might look pretty good by comparison!] But when the X-Men do it, they're heroes. If a soldier kills someone, it's supposed to be better than a random person doing it, but the dead people are just as dead, no matter what.
You've probably killed more people than me. I've only killed a few.
[He doesn't present that as a good or bad thing. It's just a thing.]
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[Adachi doesn't mind correcting his English, amending it cheerfully.]
I wonder how bad it would look if everybody knew each other's body count. [Adachi might look pretty good by comparison!] But when the X-Men do it, they're heroes. If a soldier kills someone, it's supposed to be better than a random person doing it, but the dead people are just as dead, no matter what.
You've probably killed more people than me. I've only killed a few.
[He doesn't present that as a good or bad thing. It's just a thing.]
Ha! Yeah, so am I. Things are pretty fucked up.