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Nightmare Fuel / Judgment Of Corruption

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  • Before Gallerian declares Kayo innocent, no defendant had ever been found innocent of being a witch during 14 years of witch trials. Not a single one. Becomes particularly poignant when it's revealed that the reasons for killing them are trumped up by the Freezis family to persecute anyone who might oppose them.
  • The opening of the third chapter of the book, where Loki takes Gallerian up north to go hunting with him. A snowstorm stalls the car's engine while they're out in a field in the middle of nowhere, and Loki reveals that Gallerian is the prey he'll be hunting on that trip. What follows is a 16-year-old Gallerian desperately running through the snow as someone who he thought was his best friend chases him, firing at him with a rifle and ranting about why he wants him to die.
  • The entire Freezis family in this time period is this, really. They regularly hunt slaves like animals for fun, and that's not even the worst thing they do to them. Related to that there's also Bruno's backstory: When he was 12, Loki, at that time a small child, killed his entire family. Bruno's little sister was his first kill, and he had her stuffed and put in his room as a trophy. Bruno was made into a butler for surviving the longest, and he says that there were many like him, but they all died from overwork or suicide by the time he was grown up. The most horrifying part about these people? They are the most powerful organization in all of Evillious, and they've even spread their influence into other regions. The only people who can compete with them are the Yareras.
  • Jorm Zusco, a serial killer of several young women. When Ma and the others go check on him in his cell to see if he can be rehabilitated, they find him playing with a doll like a child, hair long and scraggly and some of his teeth fallen out. Then in an instant he goes berserk, babbling nonsense and somehow able to cut Ma through his cell door without even having an object to cut with. Ma decides that he should be kept locked up.
    • His murder of Bindi, while his just deserts, is also frightening. No visuals are given but from the audio description he's hacked apart by Jorm's powers while screaming for help the entire time.
  • Lich and Eater's assault on Gallerian's mansion. Dozens of undead just pop up almost out of nowhere, breaking through the windows and doors before Bruno can so much as lift his gun. And Eater is enormous, able to easily knock the former out without so much as breaking a sweat. Lich's creepy smile in the accompanying illustration harkens back to the likes of Arte and Pollo, which is appropriate for the servant of Banica Conchita.
  • Though the following massacre of an entire town of people is far more horrifying, one can't help but sympathise a little with Tony's terror that led to the incident. He and his soldiers were led to believe the town was safe and sympathetic to their cause, he wanders off on his own somewhat and is approached by a little girl who says she has something for him. When she reaches into her flower basket she pulls out a stick of dynamite, attempting to kill him with it. It's only through Shiro's intervention that he survives.

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