"You look a little lost, Headmaster Astoria. What appears to be on your mind?" Vaan casually inquired shortly after arriving next to her near the edge of Ninth Peak's entrance to the land of fire revealed below.
"Teacher Raphna, you're here," Astoria acknowledged Vaan's presence with a nod before shaking her head. "It's nothing much. It's just that all this time, I've been fighting the demons under the assumption that if we don't win, humans would either go extinct or get enslaved by them."
"However, I've learned that there are more humans throughout Chaos and possibly among the stars. And among such humans, there are individuals even more powerful than the Gehenna's Great Devils. Thus, I am a little lost as to what to do from here."
"Even if we lose to Gehenna, there are still humans living more prosperous lives out there than us," Astoria mentioned with a blank look.
