[ it probably wouldn't have mattered. most kids in the backstreets grew up without knowing their parents at all, and the more vergilius talked, the more contemplative roland looked.

it's like how roland had killed the former leader of the church of gears, who had tried to justify his dastardly deeds by saying that there are plenty of people in the city anyway. it's like how that one technician had stitched bodies of dead children together to replace his own kid who had died. ]

...It's a never-ending cycle. A cycle that we can never break ourselves free from.

[ he lets go of vergilius's wrist. ]

Do you think you'll be redeemed for taking care of them to the end?