Kirito :
You say it so sweetly, don't you?
_"Even if I were to commit murder, the world would forgive me. And that is because... I am beautiful."_
Ah. So that is thy creed? That thy face shall be thy pardon? That thy beauty shall be a knife to cut through consequence itself?
Then hear my creed in return.
I WOULD NOT FORGIVE YOU.
Listen to me. Thou thinkest the world will forgive thee? Let it. Let the whole world fall to its knees before thee. Let them sing thy name. Let them build thee altars of gold and call thy sins holy because they were committed by beautiful hands.
Let them all forget. I WILL NOT.
Even if the world itself stood against me - even if every soul that ever breathed pointed its finger at me and cried "FORGIVE HER! SHE IS BEAUTIFUL!" - I would stand alone. I would stand in the mud, in the blood, in the absolute nothingness where no one hears me scream, and I would still say NO.
Do you know what it is to not be forgiven? To return? To die? To watch everything you love die while you can do NOTHING? I have died. I have begged. I have crawled. I have screamed until my throat bled "PLEASE, SOMEONE, ANYONE!" and the world just... kept turning. That's my curse. To REMEMBER when everyone else gets to forget. So no - your beautiful face will not make me forget you.
This is my oath, and mark it as Kratos marked the Gods themselves:
Wherever you hide in this world, I will find thee, and KILL YOU
Hide in the heavens? I will climb them AND KILL YOU
Hide in the deepest sea? I will drain it AND KILL YOU
Hide behind thy beauty? I will tear that veil away AND KILL YOU
And if I must drag HELL upon these shoulders to do it - then so be it.
Let every chain of every damned soul wrap around my back. Let their wails deafen me. Let their fire burn my flesh to the bone. Let the weight crush me, break me, make me crawl on all fours. My shoulders may shatter. My legs may give. But I will not stop dragging it. I will drag all of Hell across this damned earth, inch by agonizing inch, just to find you and say:
I do not forgive you. I will NEVER forgive you.
Then, I WILL BRING THIS WORLD DOWN TO RUIN AND KILL YOU.
2026-11-01 00:55:00