Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V.
If you're looking for the newest update, that's Day 25 + Day 29.
Day 27: Sin and Day 28: Innocence
Innocence is a rather questionable concept.
What is the definition of innocence? A person who has never done, or thought of doing, any crime. A person who has never seen anything horrible or inappropriate. A person who thinks nothing of themselves and only cares about the others. Maybe innocence was simply naivety. All that could be the definition of innocence.
What is the definition of sin? "All sorts of crimes", could be one answer. Anything against the law. Tricking people, causing physical harm, doing inappropriate things, even the mere thought of doing all that or having seen them done. All those were sins.
But do these ideas still apply during war time?
War is the ultimate force capable of bending the rules of logic. From a bystander's point of view, the majority of the actions taken by the two or more sides of a war are illogical, insane, and cruel. However, for the opposing forces themselves, those actions are not the result of insanity but rather the result of logical conclusion.
If you fight in a war, you have to win. Not doing everything you are capable of in order to attain victory is a sin. Therefore, threatening, abducting, destroying, killing or letting someone die stops being a sin, because it is all for the sake of victory. However, during war time, the line between sin and innocence grows thinner than ever, and the boundaries between the two blur. At times like these, the line that separates innocence and sin is not the law, but emotions. During war time, regret means innocence and enjoyment means sin.
But does the fact that sinners enjoy themselves during a war makes them guilty?
Everyone has their own personal demons. Some never discover them. Some demons are worse than others.
Some people are plagued by nightmares of what they have seen. Others have nightmares of what they have done.
Maybe it is not about being guilty but feeling guilty.
And then one must asks for penance. Atonement.
And to atone is to act. To fix what you broke. To bloody your hands trying to move the wreckage you caused.
That was the only way Academia could atone. That was the only way you could atone.
That was the only way to protect innocence from sin.
Author notes: An update on this? Yeah, just about the last thing I expected too. However, I am in writing mood and I'm picking up several old projects, among other things. I had this chapter semi-written for years, but I just abandoned it because I had no idea how to finish it.
Well, now I got a flash of inspiration, so I did finish it.
I'm just glad that I finally got this out of my chest. I hate to leave ideas half-finished.