For a moment it seems almost as if Maru is trying to melt into the shadows. As if somehow he's pulling the around him like a blanket, like a shield, to hide him away from Madoka's questions. From the conversation. From his past.
Was it lonely? Of course... At times. Sometimes he would go out and watch people. That's what had happened when Mahiru had found him, only he'd been caught in a sudden downpour and had been forced to change. Weakened, he'd been picked up by a boy who thought he was a stray...
"... It was for the best." He finally said in that same low voice, hollow now. "A monster has no place in the world." It was bad enough his siblings had been around... How many people had they killed? How many subclasses had they made? He thought of Lawless and his habit of engineering the deaths of his Eves. Maru wasn't like them. He didn't feed on people. He had refused to hurt anyone.
But that was just the extreme. The fact he was the Servamp of Sloth didn't help him at all. He'd been created this way. Low-energy, he found people hard to deal with. Crowds bothered him. He was happy just laying low.
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Was it lonely? Of course... At times. Sometimes he would go out and watch people. That's what had happened when Mahiru had found him, only he'd been caught in a sudden downpour and had been forced to change. Weakened, he'd been picked up by a boy who thought he was a stray...
"... It was for the best." He finally said in that same low voice, hollow now. "A monster has no place in the world." It was bad enough his siblings had been around... How many people had they killed? How many subclasses had they made? He thought of Lawless and his habit of engineering the deaths of his Eves. Maru wasn't like them. He didn't feed on people. He had refused to hurt anyone.
But that was just the extreme. The fact he was the Servamp of Sloth didn't help him at all. He'd been created this way. Low-energy, he found people hard to deal with. Crowds bothered him. He was happy just laying low.