[Ren’s experience with people like Shido and Okumura has led him to believe they’d be more likely to lie and scheme and manipulate until they’d acquired the upper hand, or simply use brute force toward the same end. He can’t imagine either of them cooperating out of the simple goodness of their hearts.
He’s seen what their hearts look like, after all. There hadn’t been any goodness to find.]
Not unless they had a sudden change of heart. And people like that don’t choose to change their hearts on their own.
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[Ren’s experience with people like Shido and Okumura has led him to believe they’d be more likely to lie and scheme and manipulate until they’d acquired the upper hand, or simply use brute force toward the same end. He can’t imagine either of them cooperating out of the simple goodness of their hearts.
He’s seen what their hearts look like, after all. There hadn’t been any goodness to find.]
Not unless they had a sudden change of heart. And people like that don’t choose to change their hearts on their own.