God Child ch 6- Scold's bridle 2

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Scold's Bridle 2

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Cain: A carriage!
With this fog I have to hurry after them or else...
Father: Drew...! Drew's dead!!
Cain: Is this... the medicine she mentioned?

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Cain: You! Tell the butler at the Hargreaves mansion to examine this!
Maid: Uhh-- yes sir!?
Cain: (thinks) I'll go after the doctor!
He was the one who killed my beloved Melediana in front of my eyes
He'd have no trouble cutting Merry to pieces
And smile while doing it!

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Viola: What a beautiful moon- how fitting for a day like this
All I have to do now is make this girl take the medicine, and at the next full moon pluck out her eyes. Then the experiment will be finished
You see, that elixir, the 'Drops of Acelsius', activates the beauty of the girls who take it. Then it collects in the eyes.
So if I take out the eyes of six women, with their concentration of beauty...

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Viola: ...then on the night of the full moon you'll perform a ceremony to call up the Devil... and I can change the ugly deformed face I was born with for a beautiful one!
For your sake alone, my beloved doctor...
Merry: W-what's she saying? These two are the ones who committed those murders!!?
Jezebel: I love you too, my masked Viola
Merry: That medicine- I knew there was something wrong with it!
Those girls who died- and Drew- it was because of that...!
Viola: Soon we will have the fifth pair of eyes...!

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Jezebel: Now, as for Karen's eyes...
The effect was much quicker with Drew so I reversed their order. Karen will be fifth.
Merry: (thinks) Karen! The girl who owns the card Drew picked up!
Jezebel: And I was thinking of making you the sixth.
You're just pretending to be asleep, aren't you, Miss?
Merry: O-nii-sama...!!!

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F/X shock
Rif: I knew it- the address on the card is deserted
(thinks) I have to tell Cain-sama what hideous things are in this supposed beauty tonic
But there may be a clue here somewhere...
F/X door slamming
Karen: Doctor!!
Doctor! Help me...!!

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Karen: My face... my face, it's so hot, as if it's burning! My- my eyes feel so strange...!!
I need more medicine! Please, Doctor!
Rif (thinks): Someone...
Boy: He's not here any more.
If you mean the doctor with the ash-blond hair, he's gone elsewhere...
Karen: Where! Where's he gone..!?

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F/X boy stabs Karen
Boy: This is just my work. No hard feelings, Karen-san
F/X gouging sounds
Rif: Is he- taking out her eyes?
(gags)
Oh! That boy- he was the one...

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Rif: (thinks) Who was with the doctor before..!
Boy: Now then... gotta hurry...
Boy he makes me work...
Rif: Wherever he's going, that's where the doctor will be- and Cain-sama as well
F/X glass breaking

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Cain: Long time, isn't it, Doctor! Sorry, I seem to have spilled that drug of yours
Merry: O-nii-sama!
Jezebel: (chuckles)
You can break as many bottles of elixir as you like. There's always more where it came from.
Much more.

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Jezebel: That pool of liquid under your precious sister there... that's all 'drops of Acelsius.'
Shall I try the effect of the liquid's source on her?
Cain: !
Jezebel: Now-- hand over the gun, please.
I'm sure you don't want her to drop into the middle of the elixir.
Merry: o-nii-sama!!

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Jezebel: Exactly. Its healthier not to fight me, Cain
As ever, those green eyes of your bound in gold bewitch me like poison.
If I slit this white skin open with my scalpel, I could pull out that pink organ that lets you look at me, and your deep-red blood as well
Put it into formaldehyde along with your eyes and add them to my collection
When you become a silent corpse
Will it soothe this suffering of mine even a little?

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Jezebel: This hatred, these impulses, are so strong even I can't control them
Boy: Doctor!
Here's the eyes from our fifth victim, Karen.
Cain: (thinks) That boy- he's the doctor's assistant

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Viola: Only one more! If we make her drink this water and take out her eyes, she'll be the sixth!
And I'll be reborn as a beautiful woman
Doctor! And then we two will be happy!
Cain: (laughs)
Why do you believe what a man like that says?
You--
It doesn't matter how many people you kill to get their eyes, that doesn't mean you'll be beautiful
That man has no human feelings... he's the devil incarnate.

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Cain: He's using you- making you kill people for no reason
Viola: That's a lie!
The doctor is the one who freed me when I'd been locked away for being so ugly. There's no use trying to upset me with your silly lies!
Look!
F/X levers moving, chains creaking- Merry's cage descends towards the pool
Viola: I'll prove it to you now!

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F/X Merry's cage moving
Merry: (screams)
F/X shot knocks the lever from Viola's hand

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F/X lever thrust back up
F/X Merry's cage stops
Rif: I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, Cain-sama

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Cain: You're late, Rif. Let Merry down in this direction
Rif: Yes sir.
Merry: O-nii-sama!!
Viola: (groans)
(looks up without mask) My mask...!!

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Rif (thinks): Twisted, as if...
her face had been scarred in a fire!!?
Cain: 'Viola'!
Violet Maria Teele!?
The scandal that had all society in an uproar a few years back-- Her beautiful younger sister stole her fiancée, and she tried to throw acid in her sister's face
But the struggle ended with it going into her own. After that, we heard that the girl who'd caused the trouble fell into a nervous decline and disappeared from her home
And that was-- you?

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Viola: My sister...
Sister's voice: But o-nee-sama!
Viola: No.. I...
Sister's voice: Of course it's the people with beautiful faces that everyone loves- including that man of yours
Viola: I was born ugly- my parents locked me away!
When this spell is complete my face will be---
Rif: This liquid has no such magical drugs in it.

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Rif: What the elixir contains are millions of eggs from a parasitical insect
A new species that's still unknown to the scientific world
Cain: That makes sense.
The excessive change in weight and the aberrant behavior at death- that was all because of the parasites.
They enter the body- hatch- start taking in their host's nourishment- and grow...

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Jezebel: Because of the parasites, the skin becomes excessively metabolized and there is a sudden weight loss. They increase hormone secretion, and their host looks more beautiful. But...
From one full moon to the next- basically, after the space of a month, their dormant period is over. They crawl through the body of the subject, breaking down the structure of the face...
They gather behind the eyeballs, and burst out from them like that
But they die when they meet the air.
Cain: And then you took the eyeballs- to hide the evidence and as samples of the results of your experiment.
Jezebel: Yes. This is just an experiment with parasites that we- that is, Delilah- have set up.
Our sampling was six subjects. 'Use whatever means you have to' I was told

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Jezebel: And today I can get my sixth sample
Cain: Stay away! Can't you see this!
Viola: I-it was a lie, yes?
Doctor?
Jezebel (in flashback): Drink this, Viola.
It will make you feel better.
Jezebel: Viola, don't you know what that mask is called?

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Jezebel: The long ears are a judgment on those who love to gossip, the lolling tongue on those who lie, the wide-open eyes on those who are too curious.
A torture device from the Middle Ages, 'The Mask of Shame', also known as 'The Scold's Bridle.'
Viola: Doctor!!
Jezebel: You fled from your crime and took refuge in a world of illusion, you were obsessed with beauty and knew nothing of the ugliness of your own soul
You foolish woman.

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Viola: Do-- Doc... tor...
Cain: *She* was your sixth victim?
F/X noises outside
Jezebel: You've called the police. How like you to attend to all the details

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F/X explosion
Jezebel: My work is finished. This time I intend merely to say hello to your sister and yourself
Killing you is a pleasure I'll reserve for the future
Cain: Doctor!
How long do you think you can get away with this? I won't let you shed any more innocent blood or harm us any more than you've done!

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Jezebel: You can't. Both I and your father...
love you so much we have to kill you.
Alexis' voice: Cain
I don't hate you. To atone for your crime
For your own sweet sake, I have to flog you.
Cain: (thinks) In the midst of a rose perfume, choking, suffocating

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The scars on my back begin to pain me like burns
Merry: O-nii-sama...!
as those abominable memories come back to me.
Alexis: Welcome back, Jezebel
You really are fond of blood, child.
(chuckles)
The end.

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