"They do," he spits back, sounding angrier than he perhaps intends, given the fact that he doesn't doubt Blake's own experiences. But he's seen this, too. "All of the time, especially if the venture is lucrative. That is the only thing that matters, even to some scientists. Everything else is acceptable loss."

Viktor's own work co-opted. Weaponized. Blake talks about a city held hostage--what about a city held hostage for years? Decades? Living under the thumb of an upper class who directly profit from and don't care to know about the suffering that happens underneath them. And they weren't even terrorists--they were the government.

But he's told Blake nothing of this, or his past, or why he does this work in the first place. Why he so desperately wants to ensure that what happened to him never happens to anyone else. He seems to wrangle himself after a moment, carefully considering what he says next.

"You're not wrong." And Blake might get the sense that Viktor finds this difficult to admit. Before his time here, he might take more offense to the very idea that his technology could be misused. Now, Viktor is less idealistic. He knows better. He will not allow what happened in Piltover to happen here. "But you are not the only person who has seen that kind of suffering."