[Muffet's expression softens slightly, seeing Tataru's discomfort and not wanting to make her feel unhappy by pushing too much on the subject.]

There are, regrettably, a number of things in the world that are both ordinary and horrible. We can only try to make them rarer in time, even if progress is somewhat slower than we'd prefer.

[A king taking souls comes to mind. How much of the Underground had questioned the need for that, when most had grown up being told it was a necessity? But the war hadn't come, in the end...]