It's said that in the beginning, God created the world. It's not quite true, but He did create a paradise with a single rule - not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. But the first man that He created and the woman He created from that man broke that rule, and so they were cast out from paradise for the sin of curiosity.
Those were my parents.
I was their firstborn child after they themselves had been cursed with... relatively minor things, things that humans now accept as part of their lives. Childbirth pains, the need to grow food for themselves... things such as that. But I was a farmer and I worked the field. My brother Abel was a shepherd and tended the flock we had. And then God asked the two of us for a sacrifice. I provided the fruits of my labor from the field and Abel provided portions of the firstborn of his flock.
[He pauses and takes a deep breath, trying to not let himself get angry.]
God chose Abel's offering and rejected mine. He wanted blood - but He asked the impossible of me. Blood does not flow in crops! And so I decided to offer the most precious thing I had. ... I called my brother out to the field and I slew him. I didn't know what murder was. I barely had a concept of what death was. And so when He called to me and asked where my brother was, I told Him I wasn't my brother's keeper, and that I didn't know.
... So I was cursed, used as an example of what would happen to people if they killed someone else. I was cursed to be a wanderer in the world, to never have peace. To be reborn over and over and over with all of my memories. It's useful, yes - but it's also torture, as I end up with horrible lives. Tragedy not of my doing, disease and famine and wars and...
[He sighs. No, he isn't... going to go into details about all of his terrible lives. Not now. And there's the matter of what happened to Abel... but he promised. He promised Kazuya he wouldn't say anything about him having a shard of Abel's soul.]
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[He sets the glass down and nods.]
It's said that in the beginning, God created the world. It's not quite true, but He did create a paradise with a single rule - not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. But the first man that He created and the woman He created from that man broke that rule, and so they were cast out from paradise for the sin of curiosity.
Those were my parents.
I was their firstborn child after they themselves had been cursed with... relatively minor things, things that humans now accept as part of their lives. Childbirth pains, the need to grow food for themselves... things such as that. But I was a farmer and I worked the field. My brother Abel was a shepherd and tended the flock we had. And then God asked the two of us for a sacrifice. I provided the fruits of my labor from the field and Abel provided portions of the firstborn of his flock.
[He pauses and takes a deep breath, trying to not let himself get angry.]
God chose Abel's offering and rejected mine. He wanted blood - but He asked the impossible of me. Blood does not flow in crops! And so I decided to offer the most precious thing I had. ... I called my brother out to the field and I slew him. I didn't know what murder was. I barely had a concept of what death was. And so when He called to me and asked where my brother was, I told Him I wasn't my brother's keeper, and that I didn't know.
... So I was cursed, used as an example of what would happen to people if they killed someone else. I was cursed to be a wanderer in the world, to never have peace. To be reborn over and over and over with all of my memories. It's useful, yes - but it's also torture, as I end up with horrible lives. Tragedy not of my doing, disease and famine and wars and...
[He sighs. No, he isn't... going to go into details about all of his terrible lives. Not now. And there's the matter of what happened to Abel... but he promised. He promised Kazuya he wouldn't say anything about him having a shard of Abel's soul.]
But yes. That's the long and short of it.