Well, it is true that the world is kind of a crapshoot at the moment. Things went so poorly that they restarted the calendar, and Emil doesn't know much about, like, real history, but that seems significant. Still.

"You don't have to pity me! It's not like I was alive before it happened." There isn't anything else he has to compare it to, really... and there are plenty of people worse off than he is, especially— mmh. Well, he's fine! It's not like his daily life is just endless suffering, he's done okay!

"I've fought trolls before; I'm fine."