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“Ah, but don't you know? Crime and Punishment are friends . . .”
His words are playful - despite their terrifying meaning. It’s terrifying how easily he can smile as he begins walking forward - his movements mimicked by the glowing, purple, mirror image of himself standing across the room.
His ability.
He comes to a halt beside it - standing in the middle of the checkered black and white floor with an evil grin on his face. He remains silent for a moment, a disgusting look of serenity on his face as he lifts the skull in his hand up to the sky. He holds it up, letting the white bones glimmer under the pale light of the full moon.
The skull almost seems to meld into the pale white gloves he is wearing - as if to keep himself from being tainted by it.
The glowing figure mimics him, the perfect reflection save for one distinction: the purple apparition holds an apple rather than a skull. A dark red apple: the same color as all the gemstones that have slowly begun shattering around the pair, leaving their sharp crystal shards to whiter away on the pale checkered floor.
Unlike the skull - it stands out against the white gloves of the apparition - its ruby red skin glistening under the moonlight.
He begins to speak once more - his voice echoing through the abandoned halls of the ruined church. His voice is powerful - like that of a God, even though he is anything but.
“And I am crime.”
That is right - he is crime. He is the filth that shrouds the minds of men, forcing them down dark paths. Paths away from the light, into a darkness filled misery. He is the Demon of the night.
Not missing a beat - the apparition responds, tilting the apple ever so slightly in its hands. Almost as if it were amused by the proceedings of its solidified counterpart.
“And I am punishment.”
It is the jailer - the retribution. It is the perfect counterpart to the misery its demonic partner brings.
They are crime. They are punishment.
Those are the final words spoken by the Demon and his warden that night.
The words that sealed the fate of Yokohama.