[Blue magic, the magic of monsters, is gained by watching monsters, by fighting them, by eating them. If Kefka had the first kind, his life would have been so much easier, but he'd had to work with the third kind. He hadn't even realized he had it until one day, eating a plant-beast he'd helped kill, his mouth had gushed poison.]
[He rarely used his blue magic after he learned the standard kind. It had turned eat into kill and drain, suck the life out of victims. Monsters, espers, and sometimes humans.]
[Ha, he's a criminal on his world and the next. But unlike others, he knew what he was doing. Unlike Clara, he wasn't so stupid as to draw the deaths out. He didn't take drugs, not when the high of a kill could leave him floating for hours. Not a thirst for blood but for power, life and death in his hands. No rituals but a fight to the death.]
[Is there a difference between serial killer and soldier?]
[It doesn't matter. He's both.]
It's a good story, a good story. A good payment.
[He smiles; it's an uneasy smile, but it's as likely to be from subject matter as from knowing you're a worse criminal than the one in the tale told.]
I'll have the staff prepared for you by tomorrow night. Do we have a deal?
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[And the thing is - ]
[Blue magic, the magic of monsters, is gained by watching monsters, by fighting them, by eating them. If Kefka had the first kind, his life would have been so much easier, but he'd had to work with the third kind. He hadn't even realized he had it until one day, eating a plant-beast he'd helped kill, his mouth had gushed poison.]
[He rarely used his blue magic after he learned the standard kind. It had turned eat into kill and drain, suck the life out of victims. Monsters, espers, and sometimes humans.]
[Ha, he's a criminal on his world and the next. But unlike others, he knew what he was doing. Unlike Clara, he wasn't so stupid as to draw the deaths out. He didn't take drugs, not when the high of a kill could leave him floating for hours. Not a thirst for blood but for power, life and death in his hands. No rituals but a fight to the death.]
[Is there a difference between serial killer and soldier?]
[It doesn't matter. He's both.]
It's a good story, a good story. A good payment.
[He smiles; it's an uneasy smile, but it's as likely to be from subject matter as from knowing you're a worse criminal than the one in the tale told.]
I'll have the staff prepared for you by tomorrow night. Do we have a deal?