Interlude
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Thoughts of a General.
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Loyalty.
I wish, at times, I hadn't a shred of loyalty in my body. I could have avoided this whole insane affair.
It was loyalty that brought Caro and I into conflict, and when he killed the one man I wanted to protect... it was loyalty that made me chase him down.
Loyalty makes you blind. I should have left then, found another reason to live and moved on. But I couldn't. And so Caro ensnared me, dragged me into this campaign...
Should the fact that I ensnared him, too, be comforting? We were both a split second away from victory, complete control over the other, but for once our end-alls didn't end it all. We tied. He can't want to kill me, and I can't kill him however much I may want to... or wish I could want to. Ultimately, his power proved the more powerful, because now he is the one running the show.
If loyalty didn't hold me back...
I wish I could kill the others. They don't even have the safety of being his life-long friend to protect them. They walk into that monster's laboratory because he says so, and...
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I have no love for the Shinigami. They've ruined my friends' lives.
But even they don't deserve that.
Someday, I'm getting out of this. And when I do, either the others get out with me, or I come back and kill every last one of them.
Loyalty?
Caro doesn't know the meaning of the word.