News spread. Long term exposure to Amber Lead caused a terrible, highly infectious disease, 'Amber Lead Syndrome'. For the good of the world, Flevance had been wiped off the map to contain the outbreak. It had been justified as the country had declared war and tried to break quarantine. All efforts had been made to help. [There's a slight hiss. Help. Ha.]
So the papers said.
The people were relieved. They were happy the threat was over. That Flevance's 'white monsters' were gone. We weren't even human to them.
I had made landfall in the nearest country and hadn't been seen yet. It was a good thing for several reasons. My own condition was starting to become visible, and the people would have tried to kill me on sight out of fear once they realized I had Amber Lead Syndrome.
I, myself, ... was extremely unstable. Seething, nihilistic, and growing even angrier. I was so angry, Itachi. I just wanted someone to pay for what had happened to my people. [It's not easy admitting this, and shame enters his voice.] Listening to them in the shadows, knowing that they weren't the only ones... I wanted everyone to pay. And I wanted to see it before I died.
[And it doesn't need to be said that in the mentality of a child, that that kind of revenge, justice, would have been absolutely the kind of an eye for an eye. He wanted them dead. They had killed everyone.]
I'm glad no one found me then. I was about to lash out at anyone. [And he had been armed with grenades and that would have been horrific.] As it was, I just stole before I left.
The only other people who weren't considered human on the seas were pirates. They seemed better company. [They weren't 'human'... so they weren't everyone. They were... blameless to a child's logic.] I figured if I wanted to make my time actually count for something...
It took me a while, but I landed in the port city of Spider Miles. There was a crew there recruiting. The crew of Donquixote Doflamingo.
[And oh, this name? The undercurrent of emotion is powerful. Dark.]
And his younger brother Donquixote Rosinante, who I knew as Corazon. Or Cora-san.
The man who saved me in the end.
[But it's nothing compared to this one. Though the emotion is not dark at all.
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So the papers said.
The people were relieved. They were happy the threat was over. That Flevance's 'white monsters' were gone. We weren't even human to them.
I had made landfall in the nearest country and hadn't been seen yet. It was a good thing for several reasons. My own condition was starting to become visible, and the people would have tried to kill me on sight out of fear once they realized I had Amber Lead Syndrome.
I, myself, ... was extremely unstable. Seething, nihilistic, and growing even angrier. I was so angry, Itachi. I just wanted someone to pay for what had happened to my people. [It's not easy admitting this, and shame enters his voice.] Listening to them in the shadows, knowing that they weren't the only ones... I wanted everyone to pay. And I wanted to see it before I died.
[And it doesn't need to be said that in the mentality of a child, that that kind of revenge, justice, would have been absolutely the kind of an eye for an eye. He wanted them dead. They had killed everyone.]
I'm glad no one found me then. I was about to lash out at anyone. [And he had been armed with grenades and that would have been horrific.] As it was, I just stole before I left.
The only other people who weren't considered human on the seas were pirates. They seemed better company. [They weren't 'human'... so they weren't everyone. They were... blameless to a child's logic.] I figured if I wanted to make my time actually count for something...
It took me a while, but I landed in the port city of Spider Miles. There was a crew there recruiting. The crew of Donquixote Doflamingo.
[And oh, this name? The undercurrent of emotion is powerful. Dark.]
And his younger brother Donquixote Rosinante, who I knew as Corazon. Or Cora-san.
The man who saved me in the end.
[But it's nothing compared to this one. Though the emotion is not dark at all.
And this is the very first time...
The very first time...
Itachi will hear Law use 'san'.
Instead of Miss or Mister.]