Mm. [To both accusations. He looks up at the ceiling, taking his eyes off explotaro but not putting it on to anyone else. How shall he put this...]

That bastard, Izumii - he lead the Squares. The fights got more brutal. We didn't even know what happened, really, but suddenly we were being hospitalized. It was around then I met Saki and... ah. Someone else, that is, and things started to turn around. We started to get fed information about where to fight them and with what. How to do it, who to do it with, when... Our luck was finally turning around, but then they just kept coming.

...Until Luceti, I figured that was what you called a war.