IZOU'S PALACE

[goei]

KYOTO BAKUMATSU PALACE
You find yourself in historical Kyoto at night. The city is shadowy and beautiful, elegant but hostile. It's a sophisticated city, but you don't belong there and it knows it. Everyone knows it. You are being watched.

Worst of all, a terrible demon haunts the streets of this powerful capital city.

Eli Walsh, Kirumi Tojo, Still Sunrise, Argenti, Yi Sang, Celeste, Mafuyu Asahina, and McGillis Fareed, do you dare journey into hell?

 

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[goei]

Oh? Only two reasons ta look for a demon. Ta kill it or get killed.

[beathollow]

Is that how you've always lived?

[goei]

[He rests his sword on his shoulder casually.]

Do you know what a demon is?

[beathollow]

Of course I do. But... I think I'm a little tired of playing by the scriptures of others. So I want to find my own answers.

[goei]

[He points his wakizashi at Mafuyu, not in a threatening way but more as a flourish as he makes his point.]

I came from hell ta deliver divine punishment to sinners. I don't live, only kill.

[beathollow]

...





Are you happy like this?

[goei]

It's not my job ta feel. It's my job ta kill who I'm told ta kill.

[beathollow]

...

You're wrong. That's not a life for anyone, demon or not.

[goei]

Haaah, that's how it works here in . Anyone who doesn't serve a purpose gets thrown to th'flames.

[beathollow]

( something about that makes her stomach churn. )

...

You sound... like her. So, I cannot accept such a thing. I won't. Not when you've already shared the pain you carry from this.

[cirquedesang]

[Still holding Eli by the wrist, but like. We're raising an eyebrow at this.]

That should make you an angel, no?

[goei]

[DON'T TRY TO CATCH ME ON YOUR TECHNICALITIES.]

Angels go around killing people where yer from?

[cirquedesang]

Sinners, yes. By way of divine punishment.

[But you look kind of wack for an angel, my dude. Even an avenging one.]

So you're not as intimidating as you'd like us to believe, I think.

[goei]

Big talk for someone who deserves divine punishment, vampire.

[beathollow]

--eh?

[cirquedesang]

And yet, here I stand. You've yet to do anything about that.

[..........Well so much for not using Fighting Words. Ah.]

[cleansewithfire]

[ Huh??? ]

[vogelfrei]

[ Excuse him for cutting in here because this is his favorite fucking topic. ]

Angels are merciless beings that stand above all, cruel and indiscriminate. It's demons that have saved my world... It's demons that grant power and agency to humans.

So tell me, demon, who and what is your power good for? What ends do you seek with your violence?

[goei]

[?? MCGILLIS THIS IS STILL IZOU YOU'RE GOING TO CONFUSE HIS PEABRAIN WITH YOUR WEIRD PRO-DEMON RHETORIC.]

You got some weird ideas about demons. All I do is kill who I'm told. People standin' in the way of the bright future smarter people'n me have in their heads. But when I'm done killing I'm just going back to hell.

[fullmoonmutt]

[ ...lmao okay, it's good he still has him by the wrist because he's tugging at it??? ]

Just let me at him already! What's with all the talking?! Did you see what he did to her?!

[cirquedesang]

I did.

[And he! Doesn't like it! Don't worry about that!!]

She was getting through to him.

[cleansewithfire]

[ There's a particular sentence that gets Sunrise's attention. ]

What do you mean by sinners, Mr. Okada?

[goei]

If they deserve divine punishment, they're sinners, ain't they? I don't decide who is and who ain't a sinner. I just kill'em.

[cleansewithfire]

Is it not supposed to be that if they are sinners, they deserve divine punishment?

[ ... ]

Then, what do you consider "sin"?

[goei]

What'd I just say!? That kinda thinkin's for other people!