Forty First Star [Video]

[heavenfang]

-There isn't much to the video. Not once does Tir speak throughout.

It's simply him, on the rooftop, performing a series of exercises with Heaven Fang to test out his shiny new metal hand.

Once complete, he bows to the camera before moving to turn it off-

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4/ah well, he's still happy

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

How... How long have you been here? I was... out for a few days.

[princedetective.livejournal.com]

Nearly a week. I've been staying with Kazuki-san.

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

I see. So you came just after the procedure began.

[princedetective.livejournal.com]

Procedure?

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

I replaced my right hand with a functioning prosthetic using a technique called automail.

[princedetective.livejournal.com]

...

[She's surprised—but unwilling to be distracted.] And how—did you lose your right hand?

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

...

I had it removed.

[princedetective.livejournal.com]

For what reason does one chose to remove a limb?

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

...I wanted to be rid of my rune.

[princedetective.livejournal.com]

For what reason?

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

...Do you recall what I told you about it?

[princedetective.livejournal.com]

I am asking for your own words.

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

...

The Soul Eater's power is the power over life and death. It can cause death in anyone. In the hands of someone of moral ambiguity... it is an impossibly destructive weapon.

I betrayed others trust in me... I used it to kill someone in cold blood...

During my imprisonment, I decided it was best to be rid of it.

[princedetective.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised you admit it so freely.

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

...Hiding the truth from you would be pointless. You'd find out even if I was reluctant to speak on it.

It... hurts talking about it again... but you deserve to know what happened.

...

[princedetective.livejournal.com]

I already knew much of it.

[...] Not that you'd maimed yourself. [Her tone is clipped; if not casual than businesslike. But tense.]

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

The pain of having my hand removed... of having this new one grafted onto me...

It will never amount to even a fraction of the pain Cecil and Viki felt. Not one bit...

[princedetective.livejournal.com]

Then why did you? And why are you no longer imprisoned?

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

...I was released. Saber believed I was still of use to the force. Minato disagreed... but I was released anyways.

As for why I did that to my hand, well... I'm better off without the Soul Eater. It won't effect my possession of it in my own world, but at least here... no one will have to fear its power.

[princedetective.livejournal.com]

And to why you killed a prisoner?

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

...Revenge.

[princedetective.livejournal.com]

...

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

That is the truth. I killed Cecil because of what he did to Kazuki... And because I thought the Soul Eater was the only way to rid this world of him forever.

I was wrong on every account.

[princedetective.livejournal.com]

...

[tenkai-soul.livejournal.com]

...Part of me still feels as if my penance will never be enough.

During my arrest... Viki tried to get involved. Without me commanding it, Soul Eater took her life as well. I...

She acted as if she felt nothing. But that's wrong. I know the pain Soul Eater inflicts on its victims. She acted as if everything was alright, but I had betrayed my promise to protect her.

Nothing... not even death... can ever make up for what I did.