First Abomination
[Action: 462 Stone St.]
[Letting himself be consumed by a towering sea demon, Caster had intended to kill, ravage, and lay waste to everything around him. He wanted to let all the atrocities pile up to show the world and a certain person that a loving God is just an illusion. There exists only a cruel God who cared little for His creations. He ( Read more... )
[Letting himself be consumed by a towering sea demon, Caster had intended to kill, ravage, and lay waste to everything around him. He wanted to let all the atrocities pile up to show the world and a certain person that a loving God is just an illusion. There exists only a cruel God who cared little for His creations. He ( Read more... )
[This was not a call she wanted to wake up to. After two days of living through a wrecked Mayfield and being dead for a third day before waking up in her bed as if the last days had all been some nightmare, Bazett really is not in the mood to listen to a supposed child murderer ranting over her telephone.]
Is this some sort of joke? You sound like my superior when he's drunk.
[Though the one time Father Kotomine had gotten drunk (or was pretending to, she could not tell at the time due to having taken in a couple of beers herself), he had not ranted about killing people.]
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Yes, that is correct. This is the divine comedy of the damned in which I play the lead role.
Well? How do you like it? Don't you find the thoughts of that wicked God hilarious as well?
[He may be speaking about jokes, but his tone betrays no sense of humor. He's being quite literal with his words.]
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You are speaking to the wrong person. Perhaps if I were a twisted being, I would find it amusing, but unfortunately, as I am now, I do not.
So tell me, do you really expect to avoid punishment here?
[If this were any other person, she would be helping them, not antagonizing them. However, this man reminds her too much of the mages who she had encountered on her missions. No, he was even worse than they were. At least their crimes were committed for some purpose besides wanton cruelty. With only a few lines exchanged between them, he was the most twisted person she had ever encountered, bar none.]
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[How strange, this woman certainly doesn't sound as if she could have committed any sins. Or perhaps she has. But for the time being, she sounds... strong. Righteous. Like a knight, almost. Caster loathes such people and assumes there is hypocrisy in her words.]
Nobody rescued my poor, little son from me as I shattered his skull wide open. Oh, how pitiful is it, that the innocents should be condemned while men like myself are blessed to live another day?
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We shall have to see about that.
[Being droned is, from what people have told her, a fate worse than death. However, she would feel no pity for this man should be subject to it. Perhaps, being droned would be an improvement for one like him.]
Who is that pity for? You, or that poor child?
[He would truly be an abominable being if, after such an action, he could only feel pity for himself.]
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Just what had happened? Even he can't be quite sure...]
And he was so happy to see who he thought was his "daddy" too... so happy that he would even give him a hug. That's all he ever wanted. It's truly a pity.
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I see. If it is such a pity, why did you still do it? Your words reek of hypocrisy.
[Had he been less twisted, perhaps she would have tried to comfort him, but right now, she cannot bring herself to feel any sympathy him.]
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But the true depraved soul is that of God who allows this to happen! Hypocrisy!? God is the almighty hypocrite who damns the souls of his most loyal servants and allows wickedness to continue on unhindered...!
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That almost sounds like blame-shifting. Out of your own stubborness, you refuse to blame yourself and instead try to shift the fault to some other entity. You only chose God because you know that no matter what you say, God will never openly confirm or refute your stance.
[She's spitting back lines that she has heard her superior say before. She refuses to let the evil man have the last word. To do so would be to acknowledge his world-view. So instead, she's going to use Father Kotomine's words to counter this man's assertions.]
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The proof of God's cruelty lies precisely in his inaction! His most loyal servant sacrificed her life for Him, and what happened then...!? She was lead into a trap and burned alive! ... and in the end, I was killed not by God, but those other noblemen.
... And now, I have been reborn for a second time instead of finally being damned. Does that not speak clearly about how God's love does not exist?
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Are you speaking of Saint Joan? Tell me, what would she think of you? I am sure that no matter what faults she would have had, she would never have tolerated such despicable actions or such blaspheme toward her beloved God.
[Even after that confession, she still could not bring herself to feel any measure pity for the man, not even the pity that she would usually feel for a rabid dog.]
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That's because she's still delusional! She's being lied to by Him even now! ... He had the nerve to erase her memories, using her like a puppet again and again... It was my goal to sever those strings and save Jeanne from God.
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But then... it is my mission, to save my poor Jeanne from the clutches of that sinister God! I will make her remember the terrors of her execution when she finally lost all hope. She will never again seek God... her most loyal general will see to it that she sees the truth!
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[She can't believe that she did not put the puzzle together earlier. It all seems so obvious now. The obsession with Saint Joan, the sadism, the murders...]
A fallen knight; a man so vile that they called you an undead fiend. You were associated with the legend of the vampire and perhaps deserved it more than Dracula himself. If your virgin is as pure as you say, will she even listen to an unholy creature like you? How would you propose to save her?
[Now the main problem is what Gilles de Rais is doing here. He was a man who, regardless of how many magic circuits he had, had tried to dabble disastrously in magecraft. Had he existed in the modern day, he would certainly have become one of her targets.]
[Maybe she has a reason to end his vile existence after all.]
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And just who are you to question what I can and cannot do!?
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