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[worldend_dominator]

Recently, due to the Tower's experiments, I have either been obsessively searching for Maria or mistaking people for her. If this has happened to you, then I sincerely apologize.

--Rosa Ushiromiya

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[worldend_dominator]

[Reading through the text makes Rosa shiver. This girl, who bore Eva's face, also seemed to know Eva better than she knew Rosa. She has to wonder at their connection.]

That was oddly detailed. But Big Sister Eva...I'm sure even if her life ended abruptly, that she lived a happy life.

[Looking at what she just wrote, she has to wonder who she's trying to convince. The Witch, or herself?]

[blackwitch]

[ .. 'Even if her life ended abruptly'? Rosa was the one who died on the island, not Eva, right?

But leaving that aside, she has to ask-- ]

And why are you so sure of that?

[worldend_dominator]

Because of the pride that she takes in speaking about her child.

[blackwitch]

That's exactly the stupid thing. How can anyone expect to be happy when they're just trying to make someone else succesful? True happiness is when you accomplish your own dreams..!

[worldend_dominator]

Because family can be part of a dream.

[It was Rosa's dream too. Marry a good man and have a happy family that would be different from the one she grew up in.]

[blackwitch]

Family isn't a dream. It's nothing more than an illusion or a distraction!

... Besides, shouldn't you know just exactly what family is like, Rosa? [ you know, bullied by her three older siblings, with kinzo as dad, her man ran away from her.. ]

[worldend_dominator]

That was Father's family. Mine is nothing like his.

[Because for her, her "family" is first and foremost Maria.]

[blackwitch]

It's still your family too! Not like you can escape from that.

[worldend_dominator]

[Escape? She has to smile bitterly at that line. Who needs escape when they're already the last one left?]

[Come to think of it, the Beatrice she remembers had said something similar. And then...]

I think
I think Father has stopped regarding us as a family long ago.

[Really, it had become less about familial affection and blood ties than it was about Kinzou's money.]

[blackwitch]

As if that chauvinistic pig would actually care about his children either way. [ yup, definitely reflections of Eva in there.. ]

Even trying to impress him would be no use, nothing would be enough! But now he's just a senile old man, so I finally took his place..!

[worldend_dominator]

[This message almost doesn't seem like something a Witch would say.]

So you're not like the other Beatrice. She was just claiming what she called a 'debt.'

[blackwitch]

Of course I'm nothing like that boring granny. She just gave up and died, don't you know.?

I'm not claiming any debt at all. What I'm doing is just having the fun I deserve to have!

[worldend_dominator]

Are you speaking of the Witch Beatrice?

[The Witch was supposed to be immortal. Not even the death of her human form had killed her.]

She can come back from death, you know.

[Or was it just when she died as a human?]

[blackwitch]

Not if she's killed by a real witch! [ Of course it's not audible since it's just text, but she's more or less sitting there and cackling to the terminal's monitor.

#biggest loser in the entire tower ]

[worldend_dominator]

So you killed her. For what reason?

[To claim her name? Or because she found the older Beatrice boring?]

[blackwitch]

Since I felt like it, of course..! Because I could!

.. And she got into my way, but I might have considered it killing her even if she didn't.

[worldend_dominator]

You were both witches working to kill the humans. Then, why would she get in your way?

[blackwitch]

That's what I was wondering too! But nope, that granny got all soft and started reversing some of the murders I had already committed. No way I'm going to let her get away with that in my territory!

[worldend_dominator]

You are saying that a Witch who enjoys nothing more than playing sadistic murder games with humans has a sense of standards? Unbelievable.

[Then again, Beatrice had been human once. Had the memories of a human Beatrice affected her somehow in that world?]

[blackwitch]

Didn't I say it already? It's since she's old and boring.

[worldend_dominator]

...

[No matter how she looks at it, it's not a good explanation.]

So you mean Beatrice's age caused her to become more sympathetic toward humans?

[blackwitch]

Who knows what it was? It's just that they say old people go senile, just like that old man did, so it might have been that.

[worldend_dominator]

Better senile than completely insane.

[blackwitch]

You call it insane, I call it just not being boring.