[ He isn't sure what to make of her restrained reaction. Her motions say she's angry, but she doesn't sound it, not in the same way she'd been earlier.
Raine's understanding of more of the context might then better illuminate why Bakura called justice and vengeance the same in this case. He did want revenge for them being taken from him, for no other reason than they had been deemed too worthless as a thieves village to be anything other than fodder, but there is justice to be had in their salvation, restoring what was taken from them: not just their lives, but their very existences.
And that was why he had taken their loss so hard, not simply because it denied him revenge, but because it meant they were well and truly lost, not merely to him but to everything, to every form of existence. The ghosts had wanted their vengeance, yes, but more than that, they had simply wanted to again be. ]
Akhenamkhanen died, before I was strong enough to-- before I had a chance of beating his Priests, the new wielders of the Items. His son, Atem, boy-king, took the throne.
[ True, Atem had been in his fifteenth year. But he was younger than Bakura, and would always be the child king. ]
When the Items were removed from their tablet after the ritual, the Ring was the last one removed... it was stuck, because Zorc was trying to seal himself inside of it. For the most part, it worked. Not all of him, but some. In the past, when I took my war to the Palace, to take on the Pharaoh and all his Priests, I needed to give Zorc the strongest form I could, to win against them -- I gave him my ka.
But the Pharaoh used his name, living magic, and sealed all the shadow magic away at the cost of his memories. As we were the shadow's players, both of us were were sealed too -- he in his Item, the Puzzle, and myself in the Ring.
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Raine's understanding of more of the context might then better illuminate why Bakura called justice and vengeance the same in this case. He did want revenge for them being taken from him, for no other reason than they had been deemed too worthless as a thieves village to be anything other than fodder, but there is justice to be had in their salvation, restoring what was taken from them: not just their lives, but their very existences.
And that was why he had taken their loss so hard, not simply because it denied him revenge, but because it meant they were well and truly lost, not merely to him but to everything, to every form of existence. The ghosts had wanted their vengeance, yes, but more than that, they had simply wanted to again be. ]
Akhenamkhanen died, before I was strong enough to-- before I had a chance of beating his Priests, the new wielders of the Items. His son, Atem, boy-king, took the throne.
[ True, Atem had been in his fifteenth year. But he was younger than Bakura, and would always be the child king. ]
When the Items were removed from their tablet after the ritual, the Ring was the last one removed... it was stuck, because Zorc was trying to seal himself inside of it. For the most part, it worked. Not all of him, but some. In the past, when I took my war to the Palace, to take on the Pharaoh and all his Priests, I needed to give Zorc the strongest form I could, to win against them -- I gave him my ka.
But the Pharaoh used his name, living magic, and sealed all the shadow magic away at the cost of his memories. As we were the shadow's players, both of us were were sealed too -- he in his Item, the Puzzle, and myself in the Ring.