Ruin
Ruin verb - To cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts.
Work out
Work out verb - To produce or bring about especially by long or repeated effort.
Usage example: worked out a compromise between the warring factions
Both terms in one sentence
- Only the protagonist is unaffected by the ruin, but he's the one that caused it in the first place; and he's amnesiac, so he can't work out why 99% of the population wants to kill and eat him.
Source: Crapsack World / Anime and Manga - I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: Romance could make things awkward between friends if it doesn't work out, so maybe it's best to leave things as they are.
Source: A Reluctant Index -
In Tales of Symphonia, there's a town called Ruin (changed slightly in the English version to Luin to make it a little less obvious) that has the nickname "The Village of Hope." Yeah, how'd that work out for you, guys?
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