The way I recall the ep1 tea party, but I recall that meta-Battler could've been happy hanging out in the Golden Land, but he chose to shatter that because he knew it couldn't be real. So there was personal loss involved. Or am I misremembering?
Hmm... Okay, I guess that's true.
How so?
It's not hard to come up with circumstances where it'd be better to leave someone with fantasy, though they're all kind of depressing.
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