[He doesn't especially want to explain himself, but Hunter's been so forthcoming already that it feels wrong to just brush him off. Maybe this is it, then. Maybe this is his secret. It's only fair. He's so, so glad they got away from the market, though. The idea of having to shout this over the bustling crowd makes him want to crawl into the deepest hole he can find and bury himself in it.]
Back home, there was... no way to change back somebody infected by the Krang. They turned into mindless enemies, so... they had to be taken out. It was the only way to live. [He hesitates, then murmurs,] There is a way to come back, though. They're still in there. So we... I... killed people, not monsters. And- sometimes we knew them. They were... friends.
[And it feels! So much worse! In retrospect! Logically he knows there was nothing else he could do, neither he nor they had the power to reverse the infection and he'd have died otherwise, but logic doesn't exactly hold up against irrational guilt.]
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[He doesn't especially want to explain himself, but Hunter's been so forthcoming already that it feels wrong to just brush him off. Maybe this is it, then. Maybe this is his secret. It's only fair. He's so, so glad they got away from the market, though. The idea of having to shout this over the bustling crowd makes him want to crawl into the deepest hole he can find and bury himself in it.]
Back home, there was... no way to change back somebody infected by the Krang. They turned into mindless enemies, so... they had to be taken out. It was the only way to live. [He hesitates, then murmurs,] There is a way to come back, though. They're still in there. So we... I... killed people, not monsters. And- sometimes we knew them. They were... friends.
[And it feels! So much worse! In retrospect! Logically he knows there was nothing else he could do, neither he nor they had the power to reverse the infection and he'd have died otherwise, but logic doesn't exactly hold up against irrational guilt.]