Viral gave her a side glance before groaning, folding his arms slightly tighter. He didn’t know about that. He didn’t have that experience himself, he was kept hidden away from everyone and what was worse was he never had true freedom himself. For these Beastmen to gain freedoms he never had did make him feel jealous, but on the other hand he was a dangerous Beastman while these were simple soldiers at best. He could easily kill many in one swoop but these people were designed to fight against a specific enemy. He was essentially constantly on watch with very little freedoms to call his own, but maybe that was for the best when nobody really trusted him. “That’s certainly one way to generalise an entire island of people…” he sighed lightly, “You are all naïve if you think this is going to work as easily as you make it out to be”.

When it came to Takeshi Viral didn’t have much of a care about his reason for volunteering, even if he knew he was pretty brutish. He was probably just wanting to go in to fight as usual while his brother was being dragged along for the ride. He didn’t know if it was wise to take the kid along considering they had done nothing to help him other than entertain him every so often. Disliking how Takeshi insinuated that the Beastmen were simpletons he gave him a glaring at before looking to Vegeta who thought it was stupid of him to say the same as well. It was all a matter of decency at this point when regarding the Beastmen as intelligent, even if he didn’t know himself. They could be more beast than man for all he knew but even then he was sure he could understand them on a more personal scale.

Shu didn’t know what to make about it all but if Takeshi had faith that he was going to do well then he hoped he was right. He didn’t know if he was going to be very good but so long as Takeshi was happy with his progress then maybe he could improve further. He really did hope that he wasn’t going to have to fight much, he didn’t want to end up screwing this entire quest up by being weak and completely not impressing the Beastmen. He was thinking like he would do when out in the wild with the weak being seen as laughable and not worth siding with them if the Beastmen saw him as a weakling. “Got to fight good…but also be good at talking to them? Oooohhh, that sure is a lot of things to do to make sure everything go good”.

Krom couldn’t care less at this point and was simply looking elsewhere, not appearing as if he was at all interested in the facility. He found it very hard to be interested in their quests when it was going to destroy a lot of work and their chances to protect others from those monsters successfully. “What? Hmm, sure, whatever”, he sighed, running his fingers through his hair, “There are probably more Beastmen in the facility that are still being produced, you know. It would be murder if you decided to forcefully shut down the facility and completely remove those in power. I don’t know how you’re going to get around that…”

Viral didn’t know how to feel about this in the end, whether he should feel insulted that the Beastmen were being seen as simple-minded or the fact that the Beastmen existed in the first place. It did mean he wasn’t alone in his existence, but that also meant he knew what it was like to be someone who was going to face further hardships simply because of the reason for his existence which really wasn’t that different from what they were created for. He didn’t know what he was supposed to do, whether he should try and protect them from being taken away from their purpose or let them be inserted into a society that didn’t welcome them. Feeling pretty conflicted he narrowed his eyes at Aito when he was tasked with trying to convey the message to the Beastmen that everything was going to be better if they came with them, letting out a groan before his attention went to Yumi. She was definitely optimistic, but she did have a pretty biased outlook on what the Beastmen were going to be like. They all should know that the Beastmen were probably going to be unruly, by all means he was and still is pretty unruly. He figured it was going to be like inviting a bunch of ruffians on board if they were that young and inexperienced with social interactions other than with their own kind. “I can’t do much other than act as someone who knows what it’s like to be locked away with only one defining purpose, unable to act on their own free will and disregarded by their creators when that purpose becomes obsolete”, he spoke, sounding rather bitter but refusing to look at anyone, “They may not know what it’s like in the outside world, but I’m sure Yumi will do a good job at explaining that so long as they’re willing to listen”.