We will disagree on that, Hayame. [ Set thinks they're real, after all.
He wants Anubis's shard ( Horus's ), but only as a last resort. ] The importance is that Zenith believes they are real.
[ It was hypocritical of Zenites to believe in a single stone and not whole worlds, but an effective tool to use against them. Even those who spoke of 'fact' and 'logic' or 'trust' in the Lady Yima, such as Rin or Atsumu, were giving themselves to some tangible thing they could use to feed their need to be right. Not reality. The reality being that the entirety of Kenos felt as though it existed to slip into their hearts and minds and press them deeper into whatever would bind them to the world and its addictive powers. ]
The Lady's abilities are not in question. I have seen and felt her manipulations, the same as I have felt those of Meridian. We are not immune to being used, simply because we serve a master of our choice — which is why, we must be willing to use their choices against them. They chose to sacrifice many for few.
[ Which is why they are more vulnerable than Meridian, in his mind.
It means they have chosen the weapons that are best used against them, and shown their bellies and throats and vulnerable places.
His eyes do linger on Dimitri, a man given to justice and the desire to part himself from a bloodied, violent history. Between the three of them, he's the one that Set expects to flinch from the idea of abusing innocents. As if there are innocents, as if they are not deserving of judgment for being beloved more than others. ( As if he, himself, feels anything for his world beyond a fragile promise: Come home, in his son's voice. ) As if anyone has any more right to exist than that child who belongs to him. Innocence does not exist, and he is perfectly fine with sinking into the mire of blood and begging screams if anyone else will flinch from it.
He was made for it, after all. ] I hope so, Dimitri. It is my suggestion, in the end. Zenites have given up on everything else, but those people they decided were worth more than your own. Besides, you do not have to destroy them if you find yourself incapable of going so far... we can just, make them disappear. And see what happens.
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He wants Anubis's shard ( Horus's ), but only as a last resort. ] The importance is that Zenith believes they are real.
[ It was hypocritical of Zenites to believe in a single stone and not whole worlds, but an effective tool to use against them. Even those who spoke of 'fact' and 'logic' or 'trust' in the Lady Yima, such as Rin or Atsumu, were giving themselves to some tangible thing they could use to feed their need to be right. Not reality. The reality being that the entirety of Kenos felt as though it existed to slip into their hearts and minds and press them deeper into whatever would bind them to the world and its addictive powers. ]
The Lady's abilities are not in question. I have seen and felt her manipulations, the same as I have felt those of Meridian. We are not immune to being used, simply because we serve a master of our choice — which is why, we must be willing to use their choices against them. They chose to sacrifice many for few.
[ Which is why they are more vulnerable than Meridian, in his mind.
It means they have chosen the weapons that are best used against them, and shown their bellies and throats and vulnerable places.
His eyes do linger on Dimitri, a man given to justice and the desire to part himself from a bloodied, violent history. Between the three of them, he's the one that Set expects to flinch from the idea of abusing innocents. As if there are innocents, as if they are not deserving of judgment for being beloved more than others. ( As if he, himself, feels anything for his world beyond a fragile promise: Come home, in his son's voice. ) As if anyone has any more right to exist than that child who belongs to him. Innocence does not exist, and he is perfectly fine with sinking into the mire of blood and begging screams if anyone else will flinch from it.
He was made for it, after all. ] I hope so, Dimitri. It is my suggestion, in the end. Zenites have given up on everything else, but those people they decided were worth more than your own. Besides, you do not have to destroy them if you find yourself incapable of going so far... we can just, make them disappear. And see what happens.