>>5817660>>5818981Sounds good, and I can incorporate the write-in as well.
Btw dropping an interlude that I wrote a while ago but couldn't find the right time to post.
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<span class="mu-s"> Belly of the beast </span>
“Just to make sure I understand, you were making a scene at a vampire costume-party with that wight and two guys named Jester Karture and Eugene Messerschmidt right before you appeared in the Akeldama world, with the three of them?” Sophia asked as she gestured toward the armor-clad wight. Kuro no Berserker had brought her a couple kilometers away from the site where they met, let her into an office building adjacent to a subway station, and been seated in a conference room with the female Dead Apostle Rusalka Illyuzii, Kuro no Berserker, another Servant who was a heavily-built man with bandaging on his foot, a girl who seemed to be trying to quietly hide behind the injured Servant, and the wight.
“More or less.” Rusalka replied cheerily as she adjusted the collar of her Schutzstaffel uniform, “Lord Vandelstam’s conventions are always amusing events, and the theme of this one was to wear something that you picked up from the world of humans that has a bit of sentimental value.”
“And yours was that you worked for the SS?” Sophia asked incredulously, “Did they offer you as much Jewish blood as you wanted to drink or something?”
“Haha! Would it bother you if they did?” Rusalka laughed as she poured herself a glass of wine from a bottle that she’d placed on the table earlier, “Are real or imagined atrocities from the middle of the twentieth century a sore spot for you?”
“I guess not.” Sophia answered as Rusalka began sipping the wine, “The woman who inhabited this body before me would have cared, but I don’t see much point in getting invested in wars between humans, past or present. Though I am curious what made you step in on Hitler’s side. Your name sounds Russian, if anything.”
Kuro no Berserker moved her gaze toward Rusalka, and their eyes met knowingly for a moment before Rusalka answered Sophia, “You’re new to this, so I’ll explain some things that would otherwise be obvious. First, war is generally a lovely pretext for Dead Apostles to fill up on blood when a large number of disappearances won’t face the same kind of investigation that they normally would. That wasn’t my primary motivation, simply something you should know for the future. Second, existential boredom is a common drawback of being an immortal creature, so when I find something interesting I latch onto it and take it as far as it goes.”
“And what was it about the cause of the German National Socialists that caught your eye?” Kuro no Berserker asked.
