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“What can you tell us?” You’ll let Victor narrate his own experience. He’ll share as much as he’s comfortable sharing.
“As I was told, I was stolen right after my birth. A hospital mix-up, or something of the like.” Victor starts playing with one of his horns as he starts being deep in thought. He went through the same thing as Cohen.
“Our family was distraught. The never-ending curse of our family struck again, but it wouldn’t deter us from finding our own.” Dr. Calamity recalls the undying spirit of his family. “My siblings and I, we all went our separate ways to search for you around the country. I went to Lokyo, and joined the army to help peruse through classified documentation or to find anything that could’ve helped us, maybe Victor himself. And of course, to cure the wounded!”
“W-Why would Victor be around a battlefield?” You want to understand the rationale behind this decision.
“People were being smuggled through the borders, including children.” Dr. Calamity smiles. “We dodged a bullet there! More than one in my case! <span class="mu-i">HAhaHAHhahAHHahhaHA!!!</span>” After the good doctor stops laughing he indicates to his nephew to continue.
“The Orphanage of the Blue was a devilish institution…” Victor puts a hand on his chest. “I was among the most fortunate ones.”
“Please, explain.” You didn’t see much of a good treatment regardless of position.
“I was one of the so-called <span class="mu-s">Noble Heads</span>, children who possessed a great power for the cause. Mother Ophelia’s cause. She was the owner. She pampered us like we were her children, even if she was the stricter of the main caretakers. I was her favorite.” There’s a little fondness in the Knight’s words. Now Victor holds his shirt tighter. “But the others... the others were thrown into hell itself. A precarious barn in the middle of nowhere. A putrid, disgusting, tiny swinery to work until they couldn’t lift their hands. And I didn’t know. I didn’t know.”
“…” You can feel the Knight’s anguish.
“I remember that day. Mother Ophelia took me and some Noble Heads aside in the middle of the night. Said to all of us that the time has arrived. We will communicate with our divine lord, <span class="mu-s">Angra Mainyu</span>. We lent her our powers. She sat me on her lap as a vortex opened.” Victor puts his other hand on his temple. “A horrifying beast showed her face, scaring everyone but a few to unconsciousness. The two of them spoke. Mother Ophelia asked for her help in the extermination of those who wronged their people, the Demon’s subjects, her believers. A thousand-year grudge. Or Justice. But the Demon wasn’t interested. The Dark Deity was kind and forgiving. And she saw the extermination as an act of benevolence. To end suffering from the constant pain of life. The mortal plain is nothing but a giant farm for otherworldly beings like her to get their nourishment, their food – and her only wish was to liberate us all.”
