Author's Note: Wow, demanding are we all! Just so you know, these chapters are simply mental leg stretches as I agonize over Advanced Rhetoric and Grammar and various other college torments. Usually written around 12 am with WHR on the telly behind me.

Thank you all who informed me of Robin's father Toudou. That'll be handy.

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Questions part 7:


Ouch! Amon!

-Hold still.

Do you have to keep poking?

-You have splinters.

Ow.

-Robin. The more you flinch, the longer this will take.

He may have not been like me, but he was still a witch.

-Pardon?

The man in the park. He was still a witch.

-You are stating the obvious.

But why must I fight someone with powers like my own?

-They are not like your own. They abuse them, or cannot control them. That is why I am here.

To guard me, I know. But what if your own powers awaken?

-I told you. I would turn myself in.

But why?

-Witches must be hunted.

Why?

-This world is not yet ready for them.

Who says so? Who sets the time?

-You will.

Toudou said that I would become the ultimate witch. A god' among men. But what is the point? When I die, that will be the end of it and witches will be forever hunted.

-Perhaps not.

Then how?

-If there is another witch out there who is like you, but natural, then perhaps you may continue your kind of witch.

You mean like Doctor Kurusawa?

-He was most definitely an exception.

But he died. He killed himself to save a friend, a human doctor.

-But he is proof that witches like him are out there.

Amon... Are you saying I should have children?

-(pause) Perhaps.

I can't believe you just said that.

-Isn't it only natural?

Well, as I said earlier, I'm only fifteen.

-You have a fair future ahead of you.

That is, if we ever make it out of Japan.

-We will.

Ouch! Are you done yet?

-Almost.

You know, when Dr. Kurusawa died, he looked so sad, and yet at peace.

-He would not give himself up.

No, he said he would obey his destiny.

-What?

Those were his last words. He asked me if I would be strong enough to obey my destiny.

-(silence)

I wonder what he meant.

-Robin.

Yes?

-Put your shirt back on.

I'll need a new one.

-You may go tomorrow.

Amon?

-Yes?

What is your destiny?

-To guard you.

And if I wasn't here?

-Then hunt witches. But that is not an option now.

I had a thought.

-And what is that?

I've been created by Toudou. The witches now have a genetic defect. Somehow he made it so I do not. Would there be a way for me to give my genes to a witch?

-Blood types are different. You may only be able to help a select few.

But it would be a start.

-How do you plan on doing that?

I don't know.

-It's too much trouble, Robin, and far too great a risk.

So it may be better for me to simply have children?

-(silence)

Well I'm not having them with you.

-I'm almost shocked you even suggested such a thing.

You brought it up.

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