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[Oh look it's the guy who threw that New Years' Party. What insanity are they bringing this time...?]

Things are exciting here. More and more exciting. There is even a tournament! I have never participated in one before - it is a friendly contest thing, yes? I cannot wait to see how everyone performs. The aim is to win, so everyone will be fighting to the best of their ability, to beyond their very limits, otherwise the win is tainted, yes?

Yes.

You will all try very hard.

[Er, did their voice get a bit weird then? A bit deeper? Hm, oh, no, their voice is back to normal]

I hope so in any case. It will make this dull otherwise.

There is a question to be asked.

Hatred and Love is viewed in equal measure. Humans normally say love is worth more. In recent months, I have seen media that espouses that love will always succeed over hatred. Hatred is inferior. It sustains only the self, but it is like poison also. Pure intentions become twisted, revenge distorts the mind and morals, and eventually hatred destroys the individual...

I must admit, this confuses me. I have observed no such things in humanity before. Ah, the corruption, yes, but hatred has sustained and protected humans as much as it has poisoned them. It is usually love that brings about self-destruction, as they hold another's life higher than their own.

So, I have always viewed hatred and love being of equal measure. They are different, yet powerful in their own right. It is like that saying, what, pears and lemons? Apples and peaches? Whatever.

So my question is thus: what do you think is more powerful or more important? Hatred or Love?

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And what important things are those? Love and Hatred help to forge one's path to their dreams, which I always presumed to hold topmost priority in importance.

If your dream can be accomplished by Hate, then why bother with Love? Of course this is under the presumption that they are two different emotions, when in fact that are almost one singular emotion.

I think that's different for everyone and yet the same. [After all... most people had someone they treasured dearly... right?]

I wouldn't say they a one emotion. Rather, they are two sides of the same coin. And hate... it's consuming. It twists and wraps you until you forget what you meant to accomplish in first place and in the end all that's left behind if are feelings of hollowness and regret.

You speak as if from experience.

But in contrast, if hatred consumes, so does love. Except it burns bright until one is scorched to ashes, destroying themselves just as utterly. Love is more self-destructive, hate is simply destructive...

It is an interesting topic of debate, I must admit.

Maybe I am.

Love may be self-destructive, but it's for the good of another that you care for. Besides, you are only talking in extremes and those are unhealthy either way. That's why it's that sort of thing that needs balance to itself.

[No light without darkness and such.]

Good for another... so essentially sacrificing yourself for that person. It is admirable, and something humans do repeatedly, defying their self-preservation instincts. Strange, isn't it?

[Anant's tone became a bit flat]

So that is why it is regarded as more important? Because it is 'admirable'? Even if it is just as destructive as hatred, which carries a certain stigma...

No. I don't think it's strange at all.

[Then again... this is why he had asked for strength in first place, why he had searched it, why he had found it in the end.

To protect the things that matter.]

And, as said. You are thinking to strongly in extremes. Putting yourself on line for the sake of someone else isn't quite the same thing as self destruction.

[Riku presses his lips together in a frown.]

Nobody regards love as important because it's 'admirable' or 'destructive'.

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