[ Brigade understands this. He was fighting within his first year of Awakening. At 4 years, he'd already seen and done so much killing. There was a close to never a year of his life he wasn't in combat. He just nods his assent. ]

I guess, I never did think of myself as a child, sir. Though the advent of Hunter schools, and my integration in the Zangyaku culture, has always made me wonder if it's all right to have children training to kill.