To the SDC, and anybody else who cares:

[agent_wolf]

Got a job to do. Don't wait up.

Haven't decided if I'm bringing 'em to you whole or sending you their heads, White Hunter. Be prepared.

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[justicereigns]

Keep in mind your other responsibilities as well boy. If you want them tortured, the marines will do that. Killing them won't solve your problems.

[agent_wolf]

Ain't about solving my problems, jackass.

[justicereigns]

It won't be a satisfying revenge either boy. Trust me on this one.

[agent_wolf]

Ain't about revenge, either.

[justicereigns]

And what is it about? Making sure other learn from it? This is the pirate's graveyard. Death is not exactly a huge deterrent for those idiots.

[agent_wolf]

It's about making sure they don't do it to anybody else. Keeping 'em from passing it on to their kids or grandkids. It's about teaching a pack of pricks that being old doesn't make you innocent and that greed always, always comes back to bite you in the ass. It's about justice.

They didn't care what happened to me as long as they got paid. They did, and I got trained to protect the innocent and destroy evil. Might've been the wrong way, but that's what I'm gonna do. Everybody gets what they paid for.

[justicereigns]

Do not confuse your anger and thirst for revenge for justice. I've made that mistake. Bringing them in alive and to prison FORCES them to consider what they did wrong and actually THINK about their actions. If they're dead, they'll never understand where they went wrong. That isn't justice. Protecting innocents is, making sure those slavers cannot do it again, that is justice but if you can put them in prison for life, that's also justice. And a better one at that. I have NO sympathy for slavers, particular not child slavers. They are the lowest of the low and only deserving of contempt but if you kill them, who's left to pay for their crimes?

[agent_wolf]

They're only ever gonna regret they got caught. Torture isn't justice, you fucking moron, it's aggression and rage subjected on a live target.

...You were right, okay? Hurting them isn't gonna help me. You want them hurt, but you want it to be all neat and legal and shit. You don't want me to do it 'cause that makes me the bad guy and you can't admit it, but you wanna give me the chance not to be. Wake up, will you? That prison is a holding cell for filth the World Government won't kill because keeping them alive keeps the world in fear. Subjecting them to torture shows the innocent they can be next. They police it with sadists and scum no better than the rest of them and you're telling me to turn in a fresh batch of greedy, evil shits to terrify civilians with instead of quietly ridding the world of more sick bullshit and keeping it safeI thought before I acted and I made my decision. I'm not gonna let this be about me getting even. It's gonna be about doing something that needed to be done a long time ago. They had their chance: if

[justicereigns]

I actually agree with you on torture. I loathe that the World Government does it... and they do it exactly for the reasons you said. I just want the slavers out of the range of being able to hurt anyone else. I'm sick of the fucking politics but scum like that are still worse than the damn politics. And Magellan is far less of a sadist than Shiryuu. He doesn't directly torture anyone, just lets them do it to themselves

[agent_wolf]

You don't have to be a sadist to be evil, dipshit. I'm putting 'em out of range.

Lots of practice. And do not tell me killing them is sinking to their level. Death is mercy compared to what they did. When I start burning down tents with sick people inside and raping women and selling children to sickos and lazy rich bastards, then you can tell me I sunk to their level. Not before. That's evil. What I'm doing is too good for them.

You think they were like that when they were children? They grew up. They knew it was wrong.

I'll think about it for the rest of my life. But what else would you have me do? Sinking to their level, you know what that is? Making them suffer for the rest of their lives. And I want to, goddamnit. But...my people didn't do that. They're the ones I owe this to.

[justicereigns]

You think Magellan is evil?

I'd have you STOP thinking about it for the rest of your life. Put the past fucking behind you and move on with your life. A new one, a better one, with a mostly clean slate and resolved. You think you can do that if you slaughter them? Who gets hurt if you kill them? You don't even think they do. At least if they have to go on trial it sends a fucking message to the other pirate slavers that even if something of the bureaucrats and retards in the W.G. turn a blind eye, the rest of the world won't necessarily. You know what message it sends if you discreetly remove them from society? Another pirate drowned in the Pirate's Graveyard. Politics are at play EITHER WAY no matter how you try to escape it.

[agent_wolf]

Never met him. Just pointing it out. As a general rule, anybody the World Government upholds as a dedicated servant to justice is a massive prick.

And that's why I haven't decided whether I'm sending 'em whole or just the heads. You're supposed to be some vigilante hero or whatever bullshit it is now. You'd know what to do about it without sending the whole situation up in flames. If I'm really lucky and you somehow manage to screw your head back on right sometime between now and tomorrow evening, anyway.

[justicereigns]

True. But Magellan doesn't seem so bad. He just wants to keep everyone inside from escaping out.

I'm good at putting out fires. Doesn't mean I want to have to. I'll do what I must. Can you do the same?

[agent_wolf]

Hn. Somebody has to.

Damn right I can. If you do, I'll owe you another favor, right? Motivation for you.

[justicereigns]

Exactly.

I'm not doing this for you. Just justice.

[agent_wolf]

I know that. Like I think you care? I'm just saying, I still owe you if I dump this shit on you. Don't act like I don't. I don't like it when people brush off my word. It's an insult.