85th moon [video]

[paladinlost]

[Cecil sits at a table, smiling pleasantly while holding a cup of coffee. His team is nowhere to be seen.]

Have you ever regretted teaching an attack to a Pokémon?

[For a few seconds, the feed suddenly shakes wildly, before stopping just as quickly. Outwardly, Cecil does not react to this incident.]

...Any attack.

Comments

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[imthe_shit]

War has changed. The world's economy depends on it, there's no breaking free. People can just pick up a gun and become an expert soldier all because of the nanomachines running through their bodies.

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[paladinlost]

A world where the economy would collapse without war, and anyone can take part in it? Wouldn't that mean a world where a life stops being important, where humanity knowingly walks to its doom?

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[imthe_shit]

I'd say so.

To them, it's just a game.

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[paladinlost]

Games that kill people are not games worth playing.

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[imthe_shit]

When the lines between fiction and reality start getting blurry, it's hard for people to keep hold of their morals compasses. Instead they get caught up in the killing...

[ And this was coming from Snake, who'd killed hundreds of people. ]

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[paladinlost]

...Until they're killed themselves, and can never find their way again.

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[imthe_shit]

[ He nods in response. There's not much more he can say on that. ]

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[paladinlost]

...It could be that they only need to have some sense knocked into their heads.

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[imthe_shit]

Sense? There's no sense left in that world.

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[paladinlost]

You seem to have some of your own.

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[imthe_shit]

Yeah, one of the very few. The whole world's gone crazy, and I've got to fix it. Somehow.

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[paladinlost]

Not by yourself, surely? No man could manage that much without help.

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[imthe_shit]

... [ A pause. ]

My mission's to kill a man... A man that's currently gotten almost complete control over the world. But he's always one step ahead of me... I've had backup over radio, others have tried to help me on the ground, but...

In the end, it will only come down to me. Always has, always will.

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[paladinlost]

...Because no one else can do it, or because you'd not want anyone else to do it?

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[imthe_shit]

[ He pauses. ]

... Both.

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[paladinlost]

...I suppose the second part cannot be helped.

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[imthe_shit]

We're like Yin and Yang... the Ouroboros. A beginning with no end... As long as we both exist, chaos will be ongoing.

I have to be the one to end him... And our story, once and for all.

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[paladinlost]

And what if killing him is not enough? Evil does not fully disappear from the world, as long as hatred remains within men's heart. What if your wars keep going after his death?

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[imthe_shit]

I don't claim to know the future, and I don't need to read it either. All that matters is that I take him out, and then... [ myself. ] Without people like us, the world can see light again.

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[paladinlost]

...People like you could mean half the world, for all you know.

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[imthe_shit]

No, it can't.

Because I'm not an ordinary man to begin with.