I'm a Meister, we usually die in battle. Yes, taking an oath of death is completely serious on my part.
[A short intake of breath, her expression is as grim as ever.]
You remember when I said one of my friends accidentally killed me during a curse? It's...that insanity thing I mentioned, going insane and killing one of your comrades is a very severe crime in our world. Punishable by death. But the friend that did it is the son of our leader, so he's especially duty-bound to keeping everyone in Death City safe.
[This is hard to explain, and probably the first time Maka's ever spoken about it at great length with someone not involved. But...]
I tried to tell him so, so many times that it wasn't his fault and he couldn't control himself. But he was afraid and ashamed of himself. I was trying to keep things together, but two Meisters can't just hold things together themselves. We needed our partners...him and me, they're the anchors in our souls, our sanity. There was a rift between us from then on and it would only get bigger the more our frustration grew. He disappeared from Vatheon before I could fix things.
And Soul...he's pledged many times before that he'd do anything for me, even die for me. How do you think he'd feel if he ended up killing his Meister during some bout of insanity? Even if death ultimately means nothing here, since we need to be alive to carry on whatever this place wants with us, it would break his spirit. Just like it broke Kid.
[A flat stare, though pinpricks of tears gather at the corners of her eyes before she brushes them away.]
Whether it's being alone until I pass in a natural sense or somehow permanently dying here, I would rather that happen than watch Vatheon break my friends' souls one by one. This is not a good place at all.
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[A short intake of breath, her expression is as grim as ever.]
You remember when I said one of my friends accidentally killed me during a curse? It's...that insanity thing I mentioned, going insane and killing one of your comrades is a very severe crime in our world. Punishable by death. But the friend that did it is the son of our leader, so he's especially duty-bound to keeping everyone in Death City safe.
[This is hard to explain, and probably the first time Maka's ever spoken about it at great length with someone not involved. But...]
I tried to tell him so, so many times that it wasn't his fault and he couldn't control himself. But he was afraid and ashamed of himself. I was trying to keep things together, but two Meisters can't just hold things together themselves. We needed our partners...him and me, they're the anchors in our souls, our sanity. There was a rift between us from then on and it would only get bigger the more our frustration grew. He disappeared from Vatheon before I could fix things.
And Soul...he's pledged many times before that he'd do anything for me, even die for me. How do you think he'd feel if he ended up killing his Meister during some bout of insanity? Even if death ultimately means nothing here, since we need to be alive to carry on whatever this place wants with us, it would break his spirit. Just like it broke Kid.
[A flat stare, though pinpricks of tears gather at the corners of her eyes before she brushes them away.]
Whether it's being alone until I pass in a natural sense or somehow permanently dying here, I would rather that happen than watch Vatheon break my friends' souls one by one. This is not a good place at all.