"Why do you care, human? I tried to kill you the last time I saw you. And for all you know, I could try to do it again at any moment."
The other two people in the room tense up, raising their guard.
Tsukune seems to back off at your sudden harshness, before trying to come up with an answer. After several moments, he eventually says, "...you looked like... like you thought that were all alone in the world. I wanted to try and do something about it. That was... pretty much the only thing I could think about, honestly."
Your heartbeat begins to quicken.
Laughing nervously, he continues, "I mean, I know that it really hurts, being alone. Come to think of it, I still don't actually have any friends of my own species except for Jotaro-senpai. Not counting blood-relatives, I guess."
...that's ludicrou-
"It's actually not," says the girl. "Tsukune comes across as a complete and total wuss most of the time, so it's not a surprise that nobody would ever want to hang out with him."
You scowl at her for interrupting your thought process. "What, are you a mind-reader too?"
Poor thing... to have been ignored and neglected by his own kith and kin...
The girl shrugs. "No... but you had a look on your face that told me that you were thinking the same thing that I was thinking when I heard about that little detail before."
The delinquent sighs, and lightly tugs on the brim of his hat. "What a pain in the ass..."
"...Ruby," Tsukune begins, "can I ask about why you hate humans so much?"
...so. No more stalling, then.
You take a deep breath. "...when I was a little girl, my parents were killed by humans. Right in front of me. They were run over by a car."
Tsukune winces in sympathy. "I'm sorry to hear that."
"It was raining very harshly that night," you absently recall.
"So it was an accident, then?" Jotaro asks.
You swallow, and nod. Try as you might, you remember the truth far too vividly to try and obfuscate it.
"In that case," he remarks, "holding a grudge against the entire species is nothing short of pathetic."
Everyone else in the room is stunned. "Jotaro-senpai!"
"It's not the only reason!" you snap at him, your rage coming back to the fore. "That hill we met on has been a sanctuary for Witches for generations! One of the few places we had an assurance of safet against the persecution both from humans and from monsters! ...the place where Her Ladyship raised and protected me...! And now you filthy humans are trying to destroy it! That's why... that's why...!"
I have to kill them all, are the words that you're trying to force out. ...but for some reason, you can't quite bring yourself to say them anymore.
After several seconds, Tsukune suddenly says, "Actually, now that I think about it, isn't the governer in charge of this prefecture that one radical? You know, the guy who keeps pulling really ambitious construction projects out of nowhere?"
Jotaro pauses for a moment, before slightly inclining his head forward. "Never manages to have any idea what the hell he's talking about, either."
Turning a little in order to face your direction, he mutters, "Join the queue - even the humans don't like that guy."
Now you're starting to get a little confused. "...and your point is?"
Tsukune takes hold of your hand. Your cheeks redden, but only slightly. You're not sure that anyone's noticed.
"We understand... more or less... why you're angry, Ruby. But shouldn't there be a better way to solve the problem than by just going around and hurting people? Wouldn't it be better to just talk things out peacefully? I'm sure there's got to be some kind of... I don't know, some kind of legal thing that can be exploited in order to save your hill from development."
"500 yen," Jotaro grumbles, "that gramps is paying that schmuck off right no-"
The conversation screeches to an immediate halt, as shrieks of terror can be heard from the streets outside, along with monstrous roars and snarls.
The garigarius plants from the hill, how could they have been unleashed without your command?!
[]Investigate the disturbance.
[]Make use of this distraction to escape your confinement.
-[]Flee to Witch Hill.
-[]It doesn't matter where you're going, so long as it's very, very far away from here.
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Perspective change to -
[]Joseph.
[]Jotaro.
[]Moka.