(Listen... Claude loves democracy in theory but sometimes it's best to just swoop in and take absolute power. Sometimes you just don't have time to create a whole new political system and you just have to work with what you have instead. Granted, it's always been his plan to step down and create a better system for after he leaves but that's getting way ahead of himself now.)

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(He glances at Jun and seems to really think about if he wants to answer that or not. Like, he really thinks about it before turning away, tilting his head up at the sky and replying,)

Yeah. Back home... I wouldn't say things are a mess, at least, they weren't before. (Now there's war.) Everything's stagnated and become the same old, same old. Nothing's getting better and nothing seems to be getting worse, at least, on the surface. Sinc everything looks okay, there's no reason for anything to change... ever.