Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-31049256-20171111145041/@comment-31049256-20171221071948

(BT) She chuckles, "I didn't leave, I was beaten just as most who join are. The Band takes work from anyone, and the Order isn't known for playing nice."

She closes her book, looking to Jorge in earnest, "I was charged with leading a small army to subdue Mamono friendly elements in the Mist Continent. It was to be the start of a new Crusade...until Team Lilrava was hired to stop us..."

She sighs, looking off into the distance, "I never got the chance to fight back. We had stopped to gather the last of our supplies in a Order controlled city, and that cunning little dark elf took me down in the middle of the street using a non-lethal poison her partner Sun-Mi brewed. From what I hear of my fellows who joined the Band with me, those three systematically hunted no more than two-hundred men and collected us all like cattle over the course of that day, and so the Crusade never came to be."

She looks down, "Of course, the real surprise came when the Boss informed us that, rather than the Maou, it was instead some of the Nobility that hired them to take us down. They had investments in some of the towns we were to target, and were against the Crusade from the start...but they could not convince His Holiness to abandon the idea."

She giggles, "Hehe, it's funny. I originally joined simply to get the chance to be the one to put them to the blade. I hoped that once His Holiness realized what had happened someone would wish to see them eliminated and relished the idea of performing the deed myself. Now however...I see how blind I was, about the Order, about Mamono...about everything. Mamono are no more worse than men, and as such it only harms all those involved to blame them all for what some do. It certainly doesn't justify wholesale slaughter, not matter how any individual acquires her husband..."

She gets a look of conviction as she looks to him, "The Band has shown that there is always another way. Between all my tours with the Order, as well as my first two months of work for the Band, I was nearing the point of losing my humanity from all the Demonic Energy I've passively absorbed. If I were still serving the Order, I would have either been executed, or worse, monsterized in mid-combat like all the fallen heroines of Lescatie..."

She looks fondly at her sword, "Instead, my little savior here, Queen, took it from me. She knew I wished to remain a woman, a human woman, and helped me do so without a second thought. She has since balanced my Energy, and saved me from monsterization at least four other times."