Faustini ✔️

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"Well go on." Sebastian insisted, moving his gun slightly as he urged Giuseppe to speak. "Why are you the way you are?"

Giuseppe glared at him. "You're not going to stop me?"

"You're strangling Diego Espina, forgive me for not caring too severely." Sebastian answered leisurely. Giuseppe didn't seem too keen on speaking and the environment was relaxed enough so Sebastian thought about Giuseppe being the strangler for a few moments. "Karina- your daughter..." Giuseppe perked up at the mention. "She delivered the letter because you made her."

"Bravo, Sebastian. And here I was thinking the public school system was failing our youth." Giuseppe jibed.

"Why Stefano?" Sebastian asked vaguely.

"See, that wasn't my idea." Giuseppe finally started to speak more freely. "I've been recruited by an organisation of people who really want to get back at the Faustini family and feeling opportunistic, I joined. One of them really wants Stefano behind bars and since the little twerp just-as-bad murderer up there once accused him, I thought, hmm, wouldn't it be interesting if we went down that route?"

"Why are you mad with Donatello anyway? It's a little hypocritical." Sebastian commented.

"I'm not mad at him because he made a violent choice. I'm mad at him because he tried to pin it on me." Giuseppe raised his chin as he recalled countless of his murders. "I only murder dainty angels."

"Like Diego?" Sebastian grimaced, eyeing off the silenced individual.

"Well, up until now." Giuseppe tightened the rope around him half-seriously as a scare tactic. "I've always wanted to murder him anyways, and now that everyone's plan is coming together I'm allowed to finally do what I've always wanted."

"Murdering Diego is understandable, but why all those other girls? They didn't do anything to you- the police would've found a correlation by now that would've let to an arrest." Sebastian asked, trying to get to the bottom of the situation at hand.

"Don't act like those pigs are more competent than they are." Giuseppe said through gritted teeth. Giuseppe then sighed. "You wouldn't understand, you're poor."

Sebastian pointed at Diego. "Then explain it to him."

"He wouldn't understand either!" Giuseppe snapped, straining Diego's neck once again. "He has ambitions, he has hopes- ironically." Giuseppe pulled Diego's head up closer to his in order to address him. "All this work you're putting in to win Dina back is not worth it, take it from me, I was married to the bitter woman for sixteen years!"

"So, this all happened because you were bored?" Sebastian concluded.

"Well, yeah." Giuseppe confirmed. "The first time was an accident- I'm surprised nobody picked up on that, how did they not notice the struggle? It was a misunderstanding, I wanted to have my way with some girl but she wasn't too interested. Then she threatened legal action and, well, the news covered the rest. But then I realised how good it felt. After feeling unsatisfied with life after I obtained everything- wealth, children-" he pulled Diego back up, "a beautiful wife. The feeling of taking a life made up for all the emptiness in my life."

"Well, I suppose that makes sense." Sebastian said, hiding his true feelings about Giuseppe. "Just one question- when you frame Stefano and he goes to jail. What happens next? Do you go back to your normal- as you've put it- unsatisfying life? You can't murder anyone while Stefano's incarcerated because they'll know it's not him, but if you don't, what will you do with yourself?"

"I don't know, I never thought that far." Giuseppe shrugged.

"Really? Because your actions seemed to be well thought out up until now." Sebastian observed, but then he thought about it some more and shrugged. "Well, not actually, here you are telling me all this, why would you bother giving me such an upper hand?"