Major Overclocked spoilers. Set after Naoya's route.
On Kazuya's nature, the war, and his relationship with Naoya.
He tears an angel's wings with his bare hands and a feral grin, and the part of him that had been asleep and demanded vengeance, blood for blood, grows stronger under the rain of feathers.
Blood for blood. Not Cain's for Abel's, not anymore. It will be His blood, and the will of every Bel inside of him cries out for battle, none louder than the human one, the only one fueled by a double betrayal.
Naoya is forgiven, because he is human and fallible and Cain and also Naoya, and neither Abel or Kazuya have known anything else, nor they need it. There is no point in that grudge anymore, not when he is able to squash him like a bug.
Naoya, who got him where he is. Naoya, who bows down to his new king with a smile because this power is what he had wanted for Kazuya, for them, for longer than humanity can remember.
Abel doesn't need that grudge because he can turn it to God along with the other Bels. They are one, again, and Abel is Kazuya as much as Kazuya is Bel, as much as they have all been pawns in Naoya's plan for vengeance, and he goes along with it because it's what he wants.
His big brother has always known him best.
Abel leaves for the demon world with a full retinue of followers, but the only one that matters is the one that stays behind, mortal and fragile but eternal in his knowledge, supporting him from a different plane, because it has never mattered where they were, when it was, who remembered or how many lives they lived, the connection between the two is old, twisted and unbreakable, and now it's time for Kazuya to hold the reigns he has ben passed.
Abel doesn't need his revenge on Naoya because Naoya served it to him on a silver platter, because his brother's spilled blood would be as meaningless as his had been, so now he turns to the source to allow Cain his.
The holy war rages, and Kazuya carves his path with the strength Abel had to fall into the abyss to find, and the power granted by a scheme thousands of years in the making. He won't let them go to waste. The first sacrifice walks once more, and he'll make Heaven tremble.
