"Not necessarily used to. New arrivals get thrown into missions pretty quickly some as young as children. I know it was like days after I arrived when I got thrown into my first mission. We are lucky we have weapons, but some other jobs have to go out without one just to do research on places we might have to go to... They kind of have a rather high mortality rate."

So he's made it obvious that children were even involved where he was from. That was nothing new to him at all. If he had been found before Cross found him, he was sure he would have had been in the war much earlier than he had been.

"But the thing is, kids here can just go on Orange team here. That team seems to have a lower chance of anything actually fighting related. That or they have the choice to not go at all." he knew at least some people did tend to stay on the train if needs be.

"That's the thing, arriving here sure we have no choice, any world that is always the case, we don't have a choice. However, we do have some kind of choice in what we do when it comes to missions the kids included. Which is still better than back home."