"At the time," he said, nodding his agreement. Because people thinking they wanted a child to fix other things could still happen, or the reality of having to raise another being proves too much, or there's famine, there's disease, there are so many things which are no one's fault, and he's practical enough to know that happens.

Most the world does not survive in luxury. It's a dichotomy of his earliest years to his current ones, when Gusu Lan has better recovered.

"Means you're wanted, too. Even if you've got all these roles you never asked for, and you were blown into another world, and you were dragged back to something that was great and terrifying and whatever else, the world wanted you." If it changed it's mind later, it needed to be fought, but that's neither here nor there.