[[Voiced]]

[biteoffherhead]

[There's a long pause, and then, Moro's voice.]


...So this... thing... is capable of repeating my voice?  So that all may hear it?


Hmmhmmhmm.  I suppose it might be useful. 

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[karatebunny.livejournal.com]

But... you can't leave it inside...

[biteoffherhead]

I would rather die than let your filthy human hands reach into my flesh.

[karatebunny.livejournal.com]

....

Ah! There are many here who aren't human! Maybe they can help you take the bullet out ne!

[biteoffherhead]

...It hardly matters. Even at full strength, I do not have the strength of a pack to start slaughtering humans again.

[karatebunny.livejournal.com]

Sl-slaughter humans!?

[biteoffherhead]

But of course. You little beings are destructive and hateful. Creating weapons like guns, turning them against the gods themselves and burning down the forest.

[karatebunny.livejournal.com]

We-we aren't all like that!

[biteoffherhead]

Or so you say.

I leave a human who is doing nothing to the forest be, turn and devour the human chopping down an ancient, spiritual tree and the human I had turned my back to lodges a spear into my pelvis.

[karatebunny.livejournal.com]

... but... but maybe that's because you were attacking his friend!

[biteoffherhead]

That's precisely why he attacked me.

Humans will turn against the gods in revenge for receiving our punishment and judgment.

They knew that death would meet them if they assaulted our forest. They knew that it was the sacred forest of the god of Life and Death. But they pursued it anyway, and because it was my job to punish them, they began to hunt the gods themselves.

It's unforgivable. That is why I spare not a single human - they will always turn against the gods.

[karatebunny.livejournal.com]

But... maybe they didn't have a choice?

But not all humans are like that.

[biteoffherhead]

They chose to make a living by tearing apart our sacred forest and digging out the soil for the iron. Even now the iron slug in my chest was forged from the soil I was born on.

They were warned. They knew death would meet them if they dared defile our forest, and yet they built guns and shot at us regardless.

And those who did not build or wield the guns will hold guns themselves, shooting at us for killing the humans that are destroying us.

[karatebunny.livejournal.com]

...
Can't... you all come to some sort of compromise? Maybe they need the iron for something important?

[biteoffherhead]

Their iron either goes into my body or into the bodies of other humans. Or it goes into making tools to cut and kill our forest.

There is no other use for it.

[karatebunny.livejournal.com]

No, iron can be use to make other things too! Like pots and pans for cooks and cars and machines and all that! It can be useful!

[biteoffherhead]

And they chose guns!

[karatebunny.livejournal.com]

.... [doesn't really know what to say to that...]

[biteoffherhead]

They chose to destroy the forest belonging to the god of life and death to mill the iron! Iron they use to make weapons to kill the gods that protect the forest!

They will all meet death at my jaws. That Eboshi woman that leads them especially.

[karatebunny.livejournal.com]

But... won't that make them destroy even more of the forest as revenge?

This... will never end.

[biteoffherhead]

It will end. It will end with the death of the gods. It will end with the death of the Forest Spirit. And when they cut of His head, everything will die.

[karatebunny.livejournal.com]

... why are they doing this? I really don't understand...

[biteoffherhead]

Humans are stupid. You and that boy Ashitaka still need to learn this.

[karatebunny.livejournal.com]

... but there are good people too...

Ashitaka?

[biteoffherhead]

One does not compensate for them all.

A stupid boy, who stood against both gods and humans, demanding the war to cease and peace be found. But there was no compromise on behalf of the humans, so there was no compromise from the gods.

[karatebunny.livejournal.com]

... there are more than one, I'm sure.

.. what happened to him then?