002 | Hungering | Video

[burningfan]

These are disgusting.

[Itachi holds up something that might have once been a recognizable food item, but all that's visible now is a shapeless deep-fried blob on a skewer. There's a bite taken out of one of them, where he gamely tried to choke it down.]

These... deities have a foul sense of humor.

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[slighted_stains]

Fasting... has been known to purify the body.

[burningfan]

Mm, it has. As well as weaken it.

[slighted_stains]

It's the price of spiritual integrity.

[burningfan]

A cruel price, especially for some.

[He mutes the communicator a moment as he turns his head to cough. Still ill, even after death. Then he returns.]

You would consider it worthwhile, though, I presume.

[slighted_stains]

I never thought to have an opinion on it.

You find it worthless.

[burningfan]

Hunger will not substantially improve an evil man. And one who needs his body to function would be foolish to sacrifice health and possibly life in pursuit of some notion of purity.

[slighted_stains]

The warrior monks of Hiei weren't troubled by that.

[burningfan]

Then they were fortunate. Or if 'were' is the case, not so fortunate.

[slighted_stains]

It doesn't matter. Bloodletting annuls purification.

Fasting... can only do so much.

[burningfan]

Then being a warrior monk seems a rather self-defeating avocation.

[slighted_stains]

You judge harshly.

[burningfan]

Perhaps I do. What is the purpose of a warrior monk, then, if they must be either a poor warrior or a poor monk?

[slighted_stains]

I suppose... if being that fulfills their wish, then the matter of competence doesn't affect them.