[ Ritsuka still has a lot of unprocessed feelings about what happened to Da Vinci--her death had been messier and more permanent than what had happened to Kadoc, but at the same time... that priest had still been the uniting factor. He'd killed Da Vinci mere seconds before she could reach the Shadow Border, and he'd killed--"killed"--Kadoc rather than let Chaldea keep him. And he'd laughed both times, that deep, mocking, genuinely pleased at the horror he'd caused.
But even before that--before any of the actual trouble had started--when he'd just been masquerading as a normal priest and part of Goredolf's little contingent--he'd given her bad vibes. Something about the flatness in his eyes, the insincere sharp edges of his smile, and the deliberate weight in his words had all been uncomfortable from the beginning. ]
I could tell that guy was a creeper from the get-go. He was one of the people who questioned me, you know? He was just acting like he was a normal priest, but I got the chills every time he talked to me.
[ She can't quite look at Kadoc as she says this. This feels weird and big between the both of them, coming from completely opposite sides to agree on one thing: Father Kotomine is bad news. ]
...Anyway, he did kill her, but--she'd prepared like... I don't know. Maybe she's technically a homunculus? But she had a back-up created. She is and she isn't the Da Vinci we knew. She remembers everything, but it's just--memories. Like the way you'd know the stuff that happened in a movie, but you never actually lived through it, so they're not really your memories.
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[ Ritsuka still has a lot of unprocessed feelings about what happened to Da Vinci--her death had been messier and more permanent than what had happened to Kadoc, but at the same time... that priest had still been the uniting factor. He'd killed Da Vinci mere seconds before she could reach the Shadow Border, and he'd killed--"killed"--Kadoc rather than let Chaldea keep him. And he'd laughed both times, that deep, mocking, genuinely pleased at the horror he'd caused.
But even before that--before any of the actual trouble had started--when he'd just been masquerading as a normal priest and part of Goredolf's little contingent--he'd given her bad vibes. Something about the flatness in his eyes, the insincere sharp edges of his smile, and the deliberate weight in his words had all been uncomfortable from the beginning. ]
I could tell that guy was a creeper from the get-go. He was one of the people who questioned me, you know? He was just acting like he was a normal priest, but I got the chills every time he talked to me.
[ She can't quite look at Kadoc as she says this. This feels weird and big between the both of them, coming from completely opposite sides to agree on one thing: Father Kotomine is bad news. ]
...Anyway, he did kill her, but--she'd prepared like... I don't know. Maybe she's technically a homunculus? But she had a back-up created. She is and she isn't the Da Vinci we knew. She remembers everything, but it's just--memories. Like the way you'd know the stuff that happened in a movie, but you never actually lived through it, so they're not really your memories.