[“Someone who just picked wrong”. There is something about that wording that makes Hayame angry. Something like making it seem as if those people deserved pity or compassion, like she should feel sorry for them. And when it came down to it, even if they were less “evil” in her eyes than demons or power-hungry madmen-]

“Just picking wrong” is for people who wear the wrong color for the season, or those who go left when they should have gone right.

[Even though a part of her knew she should temper her rage… She can’t. This man has newly arrived, but she has fought for two Oracles, she has been to Horos… and she had given up on the idea that she would be able to convince anyone who wasn’t already the type that they should come to Meridian.]

Zenites “picking wrong” and winning means the death of all of our worlds.

[So pity, compassion, understanding… She has no room for such things. The stakes are too different.

And this man does assume too much.]

You help them then, if you care so much to right their mistakes for them.