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[poiseonous]

[Luckily Kaoru is from a ye olde time too, so a question like that hardly seems laughable.]

Oh— No, that isn't the case. I can't be certain where the industrial work is done, but I believe all of the food is grown by CERES within its headquarters. There isn't a need for farmlands this far into the future.

[WHICH IS WEIRD but whatever, Kaoru doesn't make the rules.]

[goodtome]

[Oh! That's... impressive. Confusing. New. Armin finds himself reeling again, teetering back on the edge of existential crises again. He shakes his head, physically trying to break the intellectual vertigo.]

That must be convenient.

[poiseonous]

Well, in one sense. It can be a bit complex in a situation like this, where we aren't entirely sure that we can trust the ones growing it all...

[But considering the other option is "starve", there isn't much wiggle room for compromise.]

[goodtome]

[Is it unusual not to have trust in the keepers of the goods? It doesn't seem anything unusual to Armin, but he's hardly had much experience in life, even in his own very small world.]

Has anything ever come of that?

[poiseonous]

Not currently.

[But it says very little, or perhaps it just says that Kaoru is a little overly-cautious and overly-paranoid. Being from a warring era can do that to a person.]

Still, it's better not to be caught off guard in the event that something does happen someday.

[goodtome]

[There's no way to avoid being caught off guard, is there? Armin doesn't know of any. Something strange always happens. Something always goes horribly wrong.

Other times, your consciousness is extracted from some long broken time and place, sent elsewhere when you ought to be sleeping peacefully in your grave. But a bit of mistrust is understandable, isn't it? Armin only nods in response.]

Is there a way to find our objective?

[Can they really do nothing more than keep walking in one direction (or running if they're very unlucky) hoping to find an escape?]

[poiseonous]

There isn't an easy way, no.

[An apologetic look... Kaoru can't even say "if we get lucky--" because haha, as if any of them ever are.]

But it may help to go in that direction- [A nod!] -since it seems a bit less cleared out. They like to make things difficult, you see.