[Voice]

[crouching_sin]

[The audio of the phone turns on, and it picks up a slightly muffled argument. Naoya seems to be having a quite vehement disagreement with someone.]

- fair at all! Genesis 38:7.

[There's the sound of pages flipping for a moment.]

'… Er?'

Yes. He was killed for no reason. It doesn't say anything about why he was killed at all.

'He must have had a reason!'

He is cruel and a tyrant. You need to realize this.

'I don't believe you.'

It's in your own book! Exodus 11:2. Leviticus 5:17. Deuteronomy 7:10. The entirety of the book of Job. Ezekiel 18. Shall I start on the New Testament?

[The woman he's arguing with just seems to be getting more and more frustrated.]

'But He loves us! You need to accept His love!'

[… Naoya goes quiet for a long moment before starting to shout at the woman.]

"Love"?! Where was His love when I made a mistake and did something I didn't understand the consequences of?! Where was His love when he cursed me?! Where was His love when I went through so much suffering over and over at His hands, being placed in the worst situations because of what He did?! I refuse to crawl back to Him, and He is going to die for all He has done - not just to me, but to humanity as a whole!

'… You can't kill God!'

Oh, but you can! Now leave, before I kill you!

[That seems to do the trick, because the woman runs. It's quiet for a long moment, before Naoya starts to laugh.]

Once I return… once I return, the war will begin.

[He keeps laughing for a while, and eventually the phone shuts off.]

Comments

[Video]

[babel_hacker]

Naoya.

[Goddammit, Naoya. You're losing it as well!?]

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

[... Oh. Well. Oops. He pulls out his phone and smirks into the feed.]

Yes?

[Video]

[babel_hacker]

What brought that up?

[He's a bit on edge from, well, everything. Atsuro is trying his best, but there's only so much he can handle.]

[Voice]

[crownedexorcist]

You want to kill God?

[Allen does not worship God, but claims to kill Him would still get his attention.]

[Voice]

[crouching_sin]

Of course. Why would you not want to rid the world of such a cruel ruler?

[Voice]

[crownedexorcist]

That's because I normally have better things to do than to think about God.

[voice]

[breatheinthefog]

What was the point of that?

[voice]

[crouching_sin]

She was being incredibly irritating.

[voice]

[breatheinthefog]

You intend to start a war?

[Voice]

[antiviolence]

[That voice...


That voice.


THAT VOICE.]

You.

[Oh seiyuu.]

[Voice]

[crouching_sin]

Me?

[Who the hell are you? 8| ]

[Voice]

[antiviolence]

[One might guess he's affected by Devil Arcana. But hey! His temper is amazing.]

Where are you.

[This isn't a question, this is a threat.]

[ voice ]

[rocker]

... She was right.

[ Yup, that's all David has to say - he's argued with Naoya over this before, after all, and knows they will probably never agree. But still with the kind of atmosphere hanging over the city lately some part of him still feels compelled to say it. ]

[ voice ]

[crouching_sin]

Fuck you. She's wrong, and so are you. You never saw what I saw.

[Normally he would be more eloquent, but this atmosphere has him even more on edge.]

[ voice ]

[rocker]

[ His voice remains the same, either way - maybe a little tighter than usual, but still. ]

And you never saw what I saw either. It is not as if we can weigh our experiences against each other.

[soulsborderline]

Well that's one way to get rid of an evangelist.

[crouching_sin]

I have a good memory. Death threats work well on most people, though.

[Voice]

[thanklesswork]

Huh. You folks only have one God?

[Yeah, that's literally the only thing he's curious about. Everything else kinda flew over his head.]

[Voice]

[crouching_sin]

Now, yes. He overthrew the old ones and cast them down as demons.

[video]

[thefourzeiswithyou]

... Oi oi oi. I'm not big on reading, but I'm pretty sure it's in poor taste to get all upset like that on a lady over some books!

Why don't you argue with me about it instead, huh!?

[video]

[crouching_sin]

[... You get the biggest 'you are a moron' look.]

It's not just 'some books'. It's the Bible.

[Audio]

[puppet_show]

Are you really trying to kill God?

[Audio]

[crouching_sin]

Indeed I am.

[Voice]

[unknownrival]

Before I talk about what just happened, I'd like to know where in your varying levels of dislike to hatred being a monk puts me.

[Voice]

[crouching_sin]

Now that depends on what kind of monk you are.