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[worldend_dominator]

Is it over yet? The traps, the costumes, the people killing each other?

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[worldend_dominator]

I guess it doesn't?

[blackwitch]

Of course! So while I look like much less of a granny than you do, I'm still much more mature..! [ that's rich coming from you, evatrice. ] Got iiiit?!

[worldend_dominator]

I'll acknowledge that you're older, but not more mature.

[Frankly, Rosa is starting to get tired of all the digs to her maturity.]

[blackwitch]

.. Oh..? And what would make you so 'mature' then..?

[worldend_dominator]

I am a mother and the head of a company. I know what responsibility is like.

[But she doesn't look confident saying this. The truth is that she is a mother who cannot love her child properly and the head of a floundering company mired deep in debt.]

[blackwitch]

[ It's exactly the things Evatrice knows, thanks from always being with Eva and listening in on everything, seeing everything that happened on Rokkenjima.. so she can't help but smirk again. ]

And what kind of mother you are, riiight? Isn't that just downright child abuse?! And what about the money you need for your company?! Do you think you can hide anything from Rokkenjima's witch..? Kyhahaha, that's a good one..!

Aren't you still just only making mistakes?!

[worldend_dominator]

[If she was still the old Rosa, the Rosa who didn't realize how much Maria meant to her, she would be blaming Maria at this point. Maria, the child who whined and cried and got on her last nerve. Maria, the child constantly distracting her from her work. But she can't blame Maria anymore.]

But...I love Maria. I learned from my mistakes. I can do better!

[blackwitch]

[ Apparently that's not what Evatrice expected to hear. ]

... What?

[worldend_dominator]

[Rosa too is surprised. All her efforts to argue against the witch had been futile, but her desperate words had produced an effect.]

I love Maria. She is my most important person. If required, I would sacrifice everything else and every person in this entire tower to ensure her safety.

[She gives a cold smile.]

In a way, you can say that Beatrice helped me. I can now tell what's really valuable in this world.

[blackwitch]

[ .. Well, this is.. sure different. Because Evatrice is sure Rosa was beating Maria almost right before she killed the two of them, what could've been different for Rosa to have made such an one-eighty?

She makes a sound that almost sounds like retching, but it's more meant in a mocking way. ]

That's the lamest thing I've ever heard!

[worldend_dominator]

[She can stand against this Witch. All Rosa needs to do is remember Maria.]

I can't expect a cold-hearted witch to understand how strong love can be. For her...I would even fight you and the other Beatrice.

[blackwitch]

Of course I don't understand it..! Who needs something as lame as that?! I'm the golden witch, the most powerful witch, I'm Beatrice..! Having a family is something for grannies!

[worldend_dominator]

[Perhaps there is something to the old adage that love can conquer all, for when Rosa stares at the Witch, she feels no fear. Instead, all she can feel is pity and disgust for this creature.]

Has it never even crossed your mind to try? Or perhaps, you have never seen the strength that love can grant.

[During Rosa's childhood, her family have been loveless. Father, Mother, and the siblings had all been hostile to each other. Yet, the Witch of Rokkenjima could not have followed Rosa to the outside world. She could not have seen Rosa raising her daughter. And if alternate universes were taken into account, she definitely had not seen Rosa's final struggle against the goat butlers.]

[blackwitch]

Not a single moment.

[ And while there's some disgust for the concept of family - who needs that? with her own bad experiences of family, being ridiculed and yelled at all the time only to take out her own frustration on younger siblings, and then the real Eva growing older to start her own family, some dream she's never shared - there's almost some odd pride about it too. As if it makes her feel superior. ]

Something like love..? Don't make me laugh, you can only rely on yourself!

[worldend_dominator]

[By now, the Beatrice in the video has been distanced enough from the memory of Eva that Rosa can speak to her without flinching.]

It is true that Maria cannot protect me like I protect her. Yet, her encouragement gives me the power to protect both of us. You could almost call it our special magic.

[blackwitch]

You call that kind of pathetic power 'magic'?!

[worldend_dominator]

Yes, I would. It's a magic different from yours.

[It was a magic born from the heart. As much as it sounded like one of Maria's fantasy stories, it was true.]

[blackwitch]

[ .. So disgusting. So boring, so-- ugh, it just annoys her so much that she doesn't even feel like giving any death threats or even killing anything, somehow this very thing irks her so much, even if she's not sure why.

So she just gives the woman a disgusted look before she turns off her feed. ]