MOTIVE
This is my attempt to write a dark fic that shows the antagonist as a protagonist (another challenge at RLt). And I got an idea to write about Luca, the maddest villain in the series. This contains blood, gore, and violence!
DISCLAIMER: Suikoden doesn't belong to me.
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Here I am, standing outside a burning house, with my sword in my hand. Looking at the fire spreading from one house to another and hearing the terrified screams, I laugh aloud. Each time I see the villagers running past me, I cut them down, just like slaughtering pigs!
It only takes a while until one of my soldiers brings another man for me to kill. I swing my sword, splitting his stomach open and leaving his guts hanging like strings of sausages. I laugh again after I see him falling to the ground with a thud.
This wouldn't happen if you never tortured my mother to death, insects!
Soon, my soldier brings a woman to me.
To my surprise, she kneels and says, "Please don't kill... Spare me please!"
I chuckle upon hearing this.
Who asked you to start all these problems? You must pay for what you've done to my mother, state pigs!
This gives me an idea to torment her. "Act like a pig!"
She does what I said, crawling while squealing. I can't help bursting into laughter. After crawling in a circle, she looks at me with teary eyes while smiling, thinking that I won't kill her. But she is wrong! With a swing of my sword, I have decapitated her, blood splattering as her headless body hits the ground.
After laughing maniacally, I look at my bloodstained sword and see a pair of grey eyes looking back at me amidst the crimson fluid. I can even find splotches of blood on my face and my messy black hair. And so my cackling laughter booms throughout the burning village.
I need more blood to unleash the Beast Rune and bring destruction to the City-State! Mother, just wait and see! I'll make these maggots pay for what they've done to you!
With that, I sheathe my sword and order my soldiers to burn down the entire village to the ground.
When I am watching the sky turning red and smoky, a woman approaches me and asks, "Brother, why are you doing this? The villagers are innocent!"
I turn to her. "Aren't you supposed to be inside our caravan? Well, actually, this is for our mother's sake, Jillia! These villagers are part of the City-State! And our 'father' is the next!"
She cries, tears streaming down her white cheeks. "Why, brother? Why?"
I put a hand on her shoulder and say, "I don't understand why you can still call that coward 'father'! Jillia, you don't even have his blood flowing in your veins! He is also responsible to our mother's death, for he escaped during that ambush!"
She continues to sob. "But...this isn't right! I'm sure that our mother be happier to know that you forget about this madness. You often tell me that she is a kind person."
I gasped as I hear her words. Slowly, I remember my father rode his own horse to flee and left the state soldiers hoisting me and mother to the state caravan. The image of my mother pushing me out of the carriage appears in my mind.
"Luca, live on and be strong. Mother will always love you."
And soon, the annoying words by those state bastards I heard during an eavesdropping at Kyaro resound in my head. "Oh, it's nice to sleep with her, isn't it?"
Turning around, I clench my fists and say in my mind, Jillia, your face and gentle heart remind me of our mother, a loving woman. She let herself to be kidnapped, so that I could escape from those state ruffians. And then, she didn't even want to get abortion, resulting in her death after giving birth to you. Sometimes I do feel that you're right, but I'm sure that you'll say something different when I let you know what actually happened to her.
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