[It's incredible. He's been having pointlessly circular arguments with just about everyone, trying to understand where the disconnect was. Why everyone was so angry about something that seemed only practical to him.
And here, Luffy's done it, in mere 2 comments.]
oh
[Oh. It's not consciously sent, the magitek picking up on his thoughts, on the moment of understanding. Sai is still a very long way from being able to appreciate human lives in the abstract, but if there's one thing he's come to understand the value of, it's friendship. Someone is going to miss them.
Suddenly, it makes sense. There's still parts of the picture he doesn't have--the hows and the whys of those bonds of friendship, the questions about their very nature that had troubled him enough to disobey an order for the first time in his life to begin with--but he has the fragments of an outline.
People care about their friends. Like Naruto, they're willing to throw away their lives to protect them. Instead of struggling with the abstract, he's able to fill in concrete roles. Naruto wants to save Sasuke from having his body stolen by Orochimaru, wants to bring him back to the village. If Sasuke died before Naruto could do so, he would be upset. People protect others because the would not want their own friends to die, in some kind of peculiar transitive property of bonds.]
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And here, Luffy's done it, in mere 2 comments.]
oh
[Oh. It's not consciously sent, the magitek picking up on his thoughts, on the moment of understanding. Sai is still a very long way from being able to appreciate human lives in the abstract, but if there's one thing he's come to understand the value of, it's friendship. Someone is going to miss them.
Suddenly, it makes sense. There's still parts of the picture he doesn't have--the hows and the whys of those bonds of friendship, the questions about their very nature that had troubled him enough to disobey an order for the first time in his life to begin with--but he has the fragments of an outline.
People care about their friends. Like Naruto, they're willing to throw away their lives to protect them. Instead of struggling with the abstract, he's able to fill in concrete roles. Naruto wants to save Sasuke from having his body stolen by Orochimaru, wants to bring him back to the village. If Sasuke died before Naruto could do so, he would be upset. People protect others because the would not want their own friends to die, in some kind of peculiar transitive property of bonds.]
i see
very well then
i will assist