They're really good at covering up everything. Anyone who knows anything must have been convinced to keep quiet. That's how much influence they have in my city.
[Really, it's a good thing Mitsuru and her father were different. Had they done the same as the rest, there wouldn't ever have been an attempt to solve anything. Nobody goes against Kirijo!]
Take a guess: it's the end of the world. Everything dies in one night. Everyone wanting that kept calling it 'salvation'. I had never heard anything more defeatist than that.
You...now that I think about it, you told me about evil people trying to use that forest. Was it anything like this?
[Maybe less apocalyptic, but still potentially disastrous! I'm rather curious about her canon, honestly!]
Yeah, that also sounds right. People with money tend to be the same people with power. Trying to cleanse a whole world is insanity, but of course there were people who believed it,
[ she pauses a little to think before shaking her head. ]
It wasn't exactly like that. The people involved released something they weren't meant to, willingly and unwillingly, and the only way to kill it was to kill another being. Not exactly the most confidence-inspiring thing in the world to hear.
This other being was someone wholly innocent and unrelated...?
[Yeah, hearing that someone else had to be killed sure makes Akihiko think of a certain someone he once knew. There's absolutely no way what Zuriel is talking about was anything close to that, but still, having to hurt someone so something else can happen brings thoughts Akihiko didn't think he'd have to dwell on again]
It was whoever was willing to give up their life. "Willing death to pay for unwilling death." And so someone we all cared about decided it should be him, since he was fated to die that year. He chose to go through with it knowing it was likely his time.
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[Really, it's a good thing Mitsuru and her father were different. Had they done the same as the rest, there wouldn't ever have been an attempt to solve anything. Nobody goes against Kirijo!]
Take a guess: it's the end of the world. Everything dies in one night. Everyone wanting that kept calling it 'salvation'. I had never heard anything more defeatist than that.
You...now that I think about it, you told me about evil people trying to use that forest. Was it anything like this?
[Maybe less apocalyptic, but still potentially disastrous! I'm rather curious about her canon, honestly!]
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[ she pauses a little to think before shaking her head. ]
It wasn't exactly like that. The people involved released something they weren't meant to, willingly and unwillingly, and the only way to kill it was to kill another being. Not exactly the most confidence-inspiring thing in the world to hear.
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[Yeah, hearing that someone else had to be killed sure makes Akihiko think of a certain someone he once knew. There's absolutely no way what Zuriel is talking about was anything close to that, but still, having to hurt someone so something else can happen brings thoughts Akihiko didn't think he'd have to dwell on again]
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