“There’s so many ways to kill! But there’s even more ways to cripple. Once I turned a gunman to stone and broke off his dominant hand before returning him to normal. He screamed! It was amazing! Then I gave his stone hand to an aggressive cop. New hand!” Pandora Kid cackled wildly. “Being a superhero is boring unless I get to change things. Maybe a superhero who doesn’t quite help? Who cares about those without Pandora’s blessing, anyway?”
A cruel sneer crossed his face. “Well, a certain keibu also has a piece… but he’s ever-so-reluctant to let it rejoin with us. You could say that there’s a devil in him, the way he acts is so fiendish towards us white-clad fools. You certainly don’t KNOW how hard it is to work with that man! He’d probably just kill you.”
“I still fail to see the appeal of harming others… And as for why you should care? Why, I would think you want your goal accomplished sooner, rather than later. Even if Pandora gives longevity, pitting everyone against you, even for just a test, doesn’t help accomplish anything. Being nice and friendly and helpful is only as boring as you make it, and consider the benefits of not keeping isolated.
Those like me, like the detectives, like the police. We don’t get too happy with your current methods, and you make enemies. Maybe if you kept like normal, you would get more help. So why you should care is the same as why a gem has to keep the person it’s affecting under its control. To easier get what it wants. Though I have to wonder why the gem does want all its pieces together, and what it’d do if that ever did happen…”
The thief shrugged. If the sudden barrage didn’t say enough, some part of him had been affected by that magic. Or at least made him try harder now to appeal to Pandora itself this time. Or even just pushed the persona of Kid to be further in action, rather than his normal attitude he liked to keep around his other selves. Still had his own mentality towards why he doesn’t want to hurt others or kill, and still wanted nothing to do with being possessed like the other two by the jewel… But something definitely clicked another way when it came to negotiating and chatting to get what he wanted.
Which right now was for the other to stop causing wanton violence and death. Chaos and fun were fine, but not those.
“Not that I need to know. Being in pieces must be bad enough to want to be whole again. And Nakamori-keibu has a piece? Yeah, with his less than calm personality already, I can’t imagine any good would come from whatever influence the stone has on him. If he still has his temper and thinks anywhere near the same as you, then I suppose it is likely I’ll die, yes. But there have been other situations before, where the odds were stacked against me, that I’ve managed to get out of alive. So I guess we’ll just have to see. Since I’m just a ‘white-clad’ fool who’s still against falling to Pandora, I take it you wouldn’t care either way whether I died or not. The gems can affect others, so it’s not as though you need me, after all.”
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