[It's so cute! How does it work?? Like the Giraffe is it "Gi" for the highlighted hiragana??]

"It ended about fifty years ago-- wait- wait-" CHarles stopped moving, looking up as he held up a hand. "It's not like that. Their threat has been put to rest," little did he know that it would stay a thing even until he was an old, old man, "but it's something that stays with us all. That idea that we could be considered a threat. It's happened... more than once in our world history and we are not fools. All we can do for now is try to keep it peaceful and show we are people the same as them. Taking any sort of fight to them is exactly what they fear and not what I want to see happen."

Charles let out a breath and shook his head. "I can see why I was feeling anxiousness from time to time over where you were speaking. It suddenly makes a great deal more sense." He wasn't entirely certain he approved, but Ventari's teachings were that more of peace than war. Aurus had only been trying to show some of his own thoughts and world, after all. "Perhaps, though, you could stick to less... controversial matters in the future?"