In the end, a few naughty kids still squeezed onto the Imperial Admiral, and they were cheerful, showing no signs of going to war, and even no trace of battlefield tension, which makes one wonder whether these little girls understand the seriousness of war.
Yes, if it were outsiders seeing them like this for the first time, they might indeed have such doubts: Do these kids really know that war leads to death? Are they really not just going for fun?
