[ The video feed turns on, and it shows a glowing teenager with a bunch of tattoos and yellow eyes. There's a weird pattern of green around the tattoos; that's what's making them glow. He's not wearing a shirt, either. He's quiet for a minute before he works up the courage to speak. Old habits die hard. ]... Seems like people are acting kind of out
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Homunculi...?
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Artificially created humans. Extremely bad news.
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[ How strange. ]
But if they're just humans, why would they be so bad?
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[Pause.] They have abilities that neither human nor alchemist can replicate. They are monsters. Plain and simple.
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... I take offense to that, personally. What humans tend to think of as a monster is generally not one. Just because something has abilities that most normal people can't accomplish doesn't make them a monster.
[ Another pause. ]
And I'm a demon. There's nothing wrong with that, is there? I'm not out to hurt anyone. But I was human at one point before I was changed. Technically, I'm a prototype demon.
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I -- [Rewind. Changed? say what? And the mind jumps to human experimentation.] How is that even possible!? I was under the impression that human experimentation, no mater the world, was strictly taboo...
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[ He's quiet, this seems more serious than he realized. ]
The same thing can be said of some very violent demons, but I've still managed to negotiate with them. Are you sure they're really bad enough to kill? ... If they're hurting people, that's not something I can condone, though. I'm... glad there's nothing like that here.
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They are planning to murder the entire country, as far as I know.
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[ He won't let it. ]
My world? You could say that. My world was destroyed; it's in the crux of being 'recreated' into something else, now. It's devoid of human life. ... I won't let that happen again.
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I'm sorry about your world. That sounds terrible to have happened. It must be strange then to be amongst so many humans.
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... Not really! I get some weird looks, but people actually don't seem to mind too much. There's people my age here. It's nice.
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I'd image it because you glow. I'd image that was common in your world, though.
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Though the name my parents gave me was Naoki. So, what's your name?
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Might I ask why they call you 'the Fiend'.
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Demon don't generally have unique names. I'm kind of an exception--I have a human heart, so...
[ He considers. How to explain? ] Mm... when Lucifer created me, I ended up as one of the Fiends--they're special demons. Very powerful, unique ones. There's only one of them. So... "Demi-fiend". Half demon, I guess, would be a close term. That's what Hitoshura means.
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