[He's familiar with how victors' histories will downplay deaths. The range of those numbers is dizzying. There's a heavy pause while the color drains almost completely from Jonathan's face.]
How could they - how could they justify that?
[He's from a few months before the incendiary raids on Tokyo began in earnest, too, after all. March Tenth is months away. He doesn't have a frame of reference for "the good guys" killing and leaving homeless hundreds of thousands of civilians. Then he freezes, some of the things Naoya said finally snapping horribly into place.]
You were there, too, weren't you. My - I'm sorry. I know I keep saying that, but....
[He is helpless in the face of that scale of atrocity.]
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How could they - how could they justify that?
[He's from a few months before the incendiary raids on Tokyo began in earnest, too, after all. March Tenth is months away. He doesn't have a frame of reference for "the good guys" killing and leaving homeless hundreds of thousands of civilians. Then he freezes, some of the things Naoya said finally snapping horribly into place.]
You were there, too, weren't you. My - I'm sorry. I know I keep saying that, but....
[He is helpless in the face of that scale of atrocity.]