Chapter 441: The sixth day after everyone arrived on the front lines
Warming, this Chapter contains some violence and gore. Read at your own risk.
Karen was used to dealing with psychos. She worked with a rather famous one. She was best friends with a few. She knew what crazy looked like.
Hell, it wasn’t like her blood was safe from it. Her parents were damn monsters in the grand scheme of things. She grew up in the laps of people who hated each other and went to great lengths to hurt each other as much as she could, and as publicly as they could.
But this? This was a new level of crazy.
She’d never seen psychos like these before. Maybe when you didn’t get love and affection as a kid, it fucked you up?
Well, she knew that too. Captain Thatcher and Gunther certainly weren’t normal, but they weren’t like this. This was a kind of crazy that made your skin crawl just being near them. All the hair on your arms and legs stood on end, as if a deep, deep part of yourself knew that if you slipped up, even for a second, they would lunge.
Rip your throat out with their teeth kind of crazy.
That’s why Hill only had the most seasoned, most experienced members of the Guild that she trusted with her whole heart and then some watching these freaks. But even then, she had to make sure she rotated them out so that they didn’t crack. Those who were keeping an eye on the big guy they caught were the ones who had to be rotated out the most.
He was fucking insane. So fanatical that Karen didn’t think there was a way for him to come back from it. She didn’t think he was brainwashed, she was pretty sure he believed all of the shit he was saying with his whole chest.
He truly thought that if they killed all the Guides that the world would go back to what it used to be. That they would ’purge’ the parasites that lived in their society. That the ’other beings’ were punishing them for letting them grow and prosper.
Honestly, if Karen was to believe his mantras, she would think it was the other way around. That Espers were the parasites that had infected the world and the Guides had been the healing balm that the world came up with to deal with the issue. She hadn’t brought it up to them yet, since she was still trying to get answers out of them.