When he got admitted to the military academy, I could have stopped him, but by then he was already an adult, and I felt I should respect his wishes. After he graduated from the military academy, he joined the army directly, and I could no longer stop him because he did so willingly."
Ji Xinghe paused again for a moment, bringing the topic back.
"I told him many times that if you need to run, you must run. Yet he said if he ran, then no one would be able to stop those apes.
At that moment, I had no reply because I could not ask someone else's child to block those apes for my own child.
Now, I can tell him it's okay, run, I will block them.
But he is no longer here.
I have resented myself, I have resented the Federation, I have resented many people. But I know that those I resent are not at fault. I am not at fault, we are not at fault; the war is to blame.
My son joined the army willingly, and I too, joined willingly.
