The System

Ch-15: Info, info, info.

    Etiquettes are the unspoken rules of a system. Some follow them and call it honour, while others disregard them and call some stupid. The general etiquette in fighting is one respect the rules of a battle. Privates are to be kept private so their children can fight your children down the line. All these rules are made up by the society and Tetsu agreed to them until a certain limit.

Would you let a child live if he could spell out your doom?

After all, survival reigns supreme over values, ethics, rules, and the system itself. One might argue the system of life is to survive the ordeal.

A battle raged within Tetsu after his first alleged fight. He didn't understand the pride he held after his victory, nor the thrill he felt during the battle. He won, but at what cost? Was he going to fight and kill for the rest of his life?

Kill a living being and a normal person's mental state is forever disrupted. They are left to deal with the blood on their hands for the rest of their life. A certain dumb asshole, named Kile, only made Tetsu's life worse by making him realize one survives by snatching another's vital energy. That fucker didn't stop until Tetsu agreed with him.

"I mean, the dude isn't wrong, just a jackass."

'Comfort,' being a step further, is about hoarding more than one requires. Even the so-called necessities such as food, water, shelter, and hygiene are stolen from either a fellow human or a weaker species. We don't need three meals to sustain ourselves or a metal bird to travel. We moved from surviving—to "The" survived. And now comfort has become a basic necessity.

Tetsu always took the side of ludicrous optimism, while Kile won with simple logic.

Would a superior race treat humans the same?

Yes.

And would humans again climb to the top and do the same to them and justify it as vengeance?

Also, yes.

Heck! Once we climbed up the ladder, we fought and still are fighting with our fellow human beings.

Kile didn't believe in naivety. Intelligent species have always fought for themselves and even if a single individual being could reign supreme over the rest, it would have to protect itself and the things it values from greedy individuals. In the end, confrontation is a must. Death at a minuscule level or committing mass genocide is still just death and each and every living thing has a life.

Do they have our level of intelligence? That's a different question. But just because you don't believe so, doesn't change the fact.

"Each time you breathe, you kill a billion microorganisms. What are you going to do now? Stop breathing? Do you see how many holes your theory has?" Kile schooled Tetsu.

Unlike the others, Tetsu didn't argue for fun, to irritate or get irritated. He simply desires answers to a problem and debates to find loopholes or any solutions to said problem. Like always, not having any good counters, Tetsu agrees with Kile's point of view.

"Do what you think is best. Trust in yourself for true justice and don't be a coward who doesn't change their opinions down the line."

With all that behind his mind, Tetsu used info on the grassling—a general battle etiquette to remember his opponent. Experiments to perceive, grow, and eat the grass never crossed his mind. He just did them later.

Information floods into his mind as he surmises the statement under four points. It would be hard to remember otherwise. Overthinkers are notorious for forgetting the details of their day-to-day life.