Living Happily After

24: Bad Guy

I know, the 'bad guy' always loses, it's basically a known fact, so why bother being that kind of person you might ask. Well, change the concept a little bit, why does the bad guy have to lose, why can't the 'bad guy' win for once?

'Because that's how it works, the 'good guy' is good and wins, the 'bad guy' is bad and loses.'

You can't, you can't just say that. Why can't the bad guy just win?

'Why can't the good guy lose?'

Tch, I hate this.

'And hate is what makes a bad guy, bad.'

Grr, so if the good hates, doesn't that mean he can be a bad guy?

'...'

Ugh, you're self-centered aren't you?

'I'm you.'

No, you aren't.

'You're talking to yourself, you're crazy.'

And that means that you're crazy too, you, whatever you are, is what makes me crazy.

'At least you know that.'

Grrr, you know, 'good guys' weren't always good.

'...'

...and bad guys weren't always bad, at some point in their lives they changed.

'And?'

Tch, and this fact is true for Miss Violet Evergarden, she was a war dog, now she is a 'Auto Memory Doll', isn't that pitiful?

'And how about you?'

What?

'Weren't you just a pitiful young girl?'

Ugh, stop calling me that, I am NOT a girl, I may be female but not a 'girl', that title doesn't fit me.

'But didn't it fit you those years ago?'

...yes, I agree I was pitiful, but why do you ask it know?

'Why do you think?'

(Sigh)

'Why did you decide to be the bad guy?'

Why? Because half my arm was blown off!

'You know that isn't the real reason.'

Of course it is, why do you think it's not?

'Why do you think it is?'

...

'I made you quiet, your thoughts made you quiet HA!'

Ugh, just shut up will you?

'...'

(Sigh) Let's just get this over with.

'Why do you have to do it?'

Huh?

'You were ordered to kill Violet Evergarden, right? Why do you have to do it?'

You already know why, he's my father.

'You didn't used to follow him.'

That's because something changed.

'And what changed?'

...

'What chang-'

Her death. My mother. She was sweet and kind, and would always be patient, and she hated father. I loved her-

'So why do you follow your father if the one you loved hated him?'

...Because she is gone and father is the only one who'll ever love me-

'Love you? He's the exact opposite of your mother-'

Yes, he may not be like my mother but he's all I have le-

'And who said he's all you have left?'

Him-

'Exactly. Him who says he will love you but says no one else will is a liar.'

But-

'He doesn't love you, accept that.'

I do.

'But that doesn't mean that no one else will.'

I know that too.

'So why continue to be a bad guy?'

....Because Violet Evergarden needs a bad guy on her side.

'What do you mean-'

I'll be a bad guy for the good guy.

'...'

...

'And you think that's what she'll need?'

If I can't be bad for the bad guy because it's wrong, then I'll be bad for the good guy.

'...And what makes you think she's the good guy?'

Because she's being targeted by the bad guys, and I know what a good guy looks when I see one.

'Really? What's your reference?'

My mother.

'Why?'

Because she never told me she was good, she just told me being bad isn't good. That means she's true right?

'Will you still kill Ms. Evergarden?'

No.

'Then what will happen when your father finds out?'

Then he'll find out, 'cause by then I've figured out a plan.

I, Emma Mellor, will be a good guy, that's my goal.

'Even if you'll have to face your father?'

....yes. Even if I'll have to face my father.