No angel of dust for me. Just my shitty luck in life coming back again. It's been like this ever since Dad died, I should've expected something bad to happen eventually.
Susato, I'm a demon. I'm one of the things that goes bump in the night and terrorizes the dreams of little kids. From what I was raised to believe, demons always deserve punishment.
[But he's the one advocating for understanding one-another. He's the one who keeps insisting that people trying to mind their own business shouldn't be seen as a threat. He's the one who says "exorcists save people from demons" rather than "exorcists exorcise demons." Maybe he shouldn't believe he deserves punishment.]
Even if you don't mean to hurt someone, if you do something bad you're supposed to repent for it. This is how I'll repent.
I don't believe that. [Well. Hmm. She considers that.]
I agree that if you do something bad you ought to repent. Wicked people should be punished for their crimes. But. . . I don't think anyone ought to be punished simply for who they are. And I do not believe someone who does something on accident is a wicked person.
Especially when there was someone else that same night who killed someone, who clearly planned it, and who chose a method and a plot calculated to cause damage to a number of people and manipulate their emotions. That person is the person I cannot forgive, not you.
I don't know what will happen tomorrow. But you - if you shouldn't survive, even so, perhaps you will not be lost. Perhaps we will be able to talk to one another again.
[. . .]
That letter from Miss Ulrika . . . if you should find out anything about this despicable person and you have the means to punish them or expose them, that is what I would ask you to do.
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Date: 2021-10-24 02:55 am (UTC)[She seems to find this sweet, but it's still quite sad.]
. . . What you said at trial, then. Truly, no angel of dust, as Bertolt said? Only miserable happenstance?
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Date: 2021-10-24 03:02 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2021-10-24 03:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-24 03:44 am (UTC)[She sounds genuinely curious.]
Even though it wasn't your fault, do you feel as though you deserve to bear the punishment?
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Date: 2021-10-24 03:50 am (UTC)[But he's the one advocating for understanding one-another. He's the one who keeps insisting that people trying to mind their own business shouldn't be seen as a threat. He's the one who says "exorcists save people from demons" rather than "exorcists exorcise demons." Maybe he shouldn't believe he deserves punishment.]
Even if you don't mean to hurt someone, if you do something bad you're supposed to repent for it. This is how I'll repent.
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Date: 2021-10-24 03:58 am (UTC)I agree that if you do something bad you ought to repent. Wicked people should be punished for their crimes. But. . . I don't think anyone ought to be punished simply for who they are. And I do not believe someone who does something on accident is a wicked person.
Especially when there was someone else that same night who killed someone, who clearly planned it, and who chose a method and a plot calculated to cause damage to a number of people and manipulate their emotions. That person is the person I cannot forgive, not you.
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Date: 2021-10-24 04:29 am (UTC)[His face tightens up into something a bit more serious.]
You're right. Whoever did that, they were way too cruel. That wasn't just "I have to kill because this game sucks", that was cruelty.
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Date: 2021-10-24 04:38 am (UTC)So, if I could ask a small favor of you. It may be selfish of me, but if you would do this one thing for me. . .
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Date: 2021-10-24 05:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-24 11:32 am (UTC)I don't know what will happen tomorrow. But you - if you shouldn't survive, even so, perhaps you will not be lost. Perhaps we will be able to talk to one another again.
[. . .]
That letter from Miss Ulrika . . . if you should find out anything about this despicable person and you have the means to punish them or expose them, that is what I would ask you to do.
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Date: 2021-10-26 01:21 am (UTC)Yeah. I'll look for the answer on that side. And when I find it, I'll send you a letter in a sneaky code so that it gets through.
[The code will be. Obvious. I'm sorry.]