The monster among men [Yuichi]

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Oooh, she’s lost name privileges apparently, somebody was mad. Her expression didn’t chance any but she did silently stir the candy bowl with a fingernail, slowly picking colored candies out of the bowl and working her way through the candy, one color at a time. Greens were first, then reds, than yellows, so on. As she ate the candies in silence though her eyes never left Yuichi, challenging him in a way.

“...You say that, but what are you gonna do if I don’t call you by your full name, huh Yui?” Yeah, it was probably a mistake to try and give her orders and tell her what and what not to do. You would think that people would have learned by now that it was probably a horrible idea to try and push around a woman who has gleefully admitted to killing as many people as Mariko has, and yet we are. “You're not gonna try and kill me over it are you? You kids today are so barbaric, I blame public education and too much violent television.”

"You're.. A lot more civil than I thought you'd be. In fact, I feel like Valentina was probably more of a wild card than you. It's... Uncanny. Did you really run Monoworld?"

That wasn’t the first time that this point had been brought up, back when she was alive the first time people had been quite taken aback over the fact that she was the mastermind of that game and so, like she had done so many other times when this point had been brought up the green haired woman shrugged dramatically, her palms turned skyward. “What can I say, I’m not a bad girl. I just do bad things, very bad things, such horrible things.” Getting to her feet as Yuichi turned to talk to his little girlfriend, Mariko’s expression soured as he turned off the tv she had been watching and as he offered an excuse of “oh lah-de-dah we don’t like violent tv” the film director silently stared him in the eyes, like a lion about to pounce on a heavily wounded gazelle. “Oi, that was quite rude you k-”

"Why'd you do it?"

Oh, this question again? As someone besides Yuichi speaks up for once, Mariko finally looks away from the singer to see this cute little lamb lost to the slaughter. She hadn’t spoken up much, choosing instead to use blondie over here do all the talking but it seems that she finally found her voice, because she had like six questions after that. Mariko studies her in silence

“...Does my reason really matter?” With her hands folded behind her head, Mariko has lazily started walking wide circles around the two people in front of her, eyeing them out of the side of her eye like they were an exhibit at a zoo. “I’m the Emerald Demon, known what remains of the world over as history’s greatest monster. The boogeyman parents warn their children about.” She pauses for a moment, her head tilted at an angle as she seems to be fixated on something before simply shrugging and making her way back to the armchairs. “Besides, even if I tell you my reason you’ll just dismiss it as a lie, so just come up with your own reason I did what I did and roll with it.”

Still looking as bored as she had been before, Mariko ambles her way back over to the armchairs and drops back into it, propping one leg over the other and gazes up at the ceiling thoughtfully as she seemed to be debating the answers to the various questions that had been directed at her. “I have a few plans for what I want to do when I get out. I wanna swing by and see my older sisters, assuming your foundation didn’t shoot them in the head just for being related to me. Have a few drinks, maybe go to the beach. Hunt down and brutally slaughter the little worthless bitches I let live way back when just because they were too much of a pain to execute. You know, nothing major.” Salty? Who was salty. Those three had only accused a head in a box of being the mastermind, but no yeah they deserved to live. “As for if I care about how we were brought back, no, not really. I just wish this technology was around when I was alive, the movies I could have made with the greats.” She may have said more here, but it’s at this moment that Yuichi’s friend says something about it being harder to start a tragedy again after people had lives through a first one. For a second it looks like she’s smirking at the very idea but of course, she’d never do something like that.

“You think so?” Mariko has a mock quizzical expression on her face and she again looks to the ceiling, brushing strands of green hair as she did so. That was a new one. “Since I’ve been gone, have people gotten nicer? Is there peace, love, universal harmony? No troubles, no strife, no killings or crime, everything sunshine and rainbows?” She doesn’t give either of them an actual opportunity to answer, instead leaning forward like she was going to share with them some sort of major secret.

“You wanna know how I started the first tragedy? All I had to do was wait. Sure, I had to nudge a few pawns along, but before long they were out in the world and they were taking out the entire chessboard.” I mean sure, she killed a few people on her own to kickstart things off but that’s not the point she wanted to make here, and she turned her attention back to Yuichi, again staring him dead in the eye. “You’ve seen it, right Yui? You’re living it right now, after all. You kids may be slacking hardcore…” Her eyes cut quickly to the now shut off tv screen to make her point before going right back to the singer “But you’ve seen the real face of humanity. You see that if you give someone the tiniest little nudge, someone will slit your throat and step over your still warm body to assure their own survival.”

Satisfied with her explanation, Mariko picks up the large candy bowl again and resumes sorting through various colored candy as she spoke. She had to have a few orange ones left. “That’s the beauty of a killing game, you see up close and personal what human beings are all about. People just can’t handle seeing their true selves amplified.”
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