Honing your cursed techniques, getting stronger... It's also a display of your place in the pecking order. That's traditional self-interest.
[ Strokes chin. ]
There are those who join and stay because we get paid very well, or working in corporate Japan doesn't suit them. Then those who join because they want to protect their close few... And finally the very few of us who take the strong protecting the weak tagline incredibly seriously. Some of that is genuine, some of it is plainly self-righteous.
[ Which he doesn't care about. He does think he himself is interesting! Ego quite large. ]
I wonder what kind of person you are, too, Lavi. You're kind of just hanging around the outskirts of the order, but they're dragging you in. That's annoying.
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Self-serving how?
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[ Strokes chin. ]
There are those who join and stay because we get paid very well, or working in corporate Japan doesn't suit them. Then those who join because they want to protect their close few... And finally the very few of us who take the strong protecting the weak tagline incredibly seriously. Some of that is genuine, some of it is plainly self-righteous.
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[he has some idea from how Gojo talked about fixing the system, but also he's curious...]
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[ He's here. ]
Why are you curious?
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[and he was wondering because of the ink from earlier, "are you strong because you're Gojo Satoru?"]
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[ Which he doesn't care about. He does think he himself is interesting! Ego quite large. ]
I wonder what kind of person you are, too, Lavi. You're kind of just hanging around the outskirts of the order, but they're dragging you in. That's annoying.