[Frowning inwardly, Coby brought his hand up and gestured for Asami to follow again. He kept his mind tuned so he could hear into the distance consistently, but above all else, he knew for the moment they were relatively safe. Those soldiers didn't try to recover their dead. They left them behind like they didn't matter. The thought enraged Coby to no end, but he had no say in the matter. He would just try his best to fight them.]

You know, I used to be a pathetic coward a few years ago. Before I joined the Marines, I mean.

[He could hear shells going off in the distance, bursting and taking lives with them. Before, when he learned how to use 'Observation', the voices would have terrified him and shaken him to paralysis.]

Even after that I wasn't very admirable or strong. About two years ago, I was enlisted and pulled into a war with the strongest man in the world. I fought in a war even scarier than this.