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Character name: Legato Bluesummers
Age: About 25 years old.
Canon: Trigun (Anime)
Canonpoint: After the July Incident, but before Legato started recruiting members for the Gung-ho Guns.

Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Trigun_media#Anime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vash_the_Stampede & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigun#Characters (Just in case you guys want extra info on Knives or the kind of powers he has!)

Since the Trigun anime really does differ from the manga, and since Legato's past isn't quite fleshed out in the anime, I'll be using my own headcannon to fill in anime Legato's past. Before his powers manifested, Legato was a pretty normal, nice kid, who liked sweets and running around just like any other child. His parents were puzzled about the blue hair and yellow eyes their child sported, but they just chalked it up to weird genetics and kept on going with their lives. After all, their kid seemed pretty ordinary, other than his appearance. There was no need to get all bent out of shape because of it.

His parents were musicians and named their child Legato in the hopes that he would follow in their footsteps and that they would all be able to be tied together, as Gunsmoke can't really be considered the greatest place to keep a family together. However, when Legato was about five or six, his psychic abilities woke up as his father was scolding him for being too noisy while his parents practiced. Legato, scared and upset, accidentally used his powers to force his father to break his jaw in order to stop the scolding. This was the event that broke up Legato's family, as his parents abandoned him soon after, finally convinced that their child was a monster, something they didn't want to be tied to any longer.

Convinced that he was a bad person for hurting his father-even if he had no real understanding or control over his powers yet-and with very little in the way of an education, Legato took to the streets to survive. There he stayed until his late teens, honing his abilities, stealing, and seeing how cruel humans could be. He saw that it wasn't uncommon for parents to abandon their children in the groups of street urchins he saw. He saw just how little people thought of others in the constant violence, thievery, and slavery that occurred. He himself was a testament to how horrible humanity was-he had injured his father, caused his parents to run away in fear, and kept on injuring and stealing from others so that he could live. He, along with everyone else, was horrible. As Legato continued to live, the townsfolk tried to ignore him as best they could, as his powers were nothing to sneeze at, and Legato started to wonder-just what was the point of living, especially if you hurt other people? What good was it when everyone eventually died?

Legato's answer came at the end of his life as a street urchin. One day, a store owner caught him by surprise, beat him until he was too weak to use his powers, and tied him up so that he could be sold to some slavers the next day. However, just as the merchant was haggling prices with the slavers in the back of his shop, Knives, Vash's brother, came into the city and started killing everyone he could find. And since he didn’t want any parasites to escape and keep leeching off his siblings, he did his best to be thorough. When he had killed everyone on the streets he could possibly find, he wandered into the shop Legato was in and killed the merchant and the slavers. Legato, who was with them, bound, beaten, and tired, couldn't help but be amazed and slightly terrified at this stranger. He looked beautiful, and the way he effortlessly took out the merchant and the slavers like they were nothing was both wonderful and scary to him.

Of course, once Knives had killed the merchant and the slavers, he tried to kill Legato too, since it would be inefficient and stupid to kill a few parasites and leave the rest to live. Legato only managed to survive because he became terrified and was able to use his powers to force Knives to not kill him. While he wondered what the point of living was, he still held the basic urge to survive, and Knives, impressed with the odd powers this disgusting human held, undid his bounds and told Legato that he could come with him. This was the first real act of kindness Legato had experienced in years, and Legato accepted the offer, puzzled and amazed at the man's kindness-after all, he had just freed him and taken him in, even though there was no real reason for this man to do so, other than the fact that Legato wasn’t a normal human being. Even though he was a horrible monster, this man had just freed him, found a use for him, and offered him a place at his side. As they wandered through and out of town, Legato’s amazement and affection towards Knives grew, since it was clear that he was interested in killing every single useless, horrible human being he could find. Not that Legato minded. Legato had never really liked them. After all, they had never been kind to him.

As Legato wandered with Knives, he helped him kill other humans, and Knives helped fill in the blanks in Legato's education when it was necessary and explained to his new right-hand man just what he was, along with everything else in his past. It was at this point that Legato started calling Knives his Master and bought into the anti-human beliefs that Knives sported. After all, humans destroyed everything in their path and caused pain and suffering. There was no reason for them to live. Knives and his foolish, idiotic brother lived outside of human time, as they were at the very least, a hundred years old. It would be better if every single human-including himself-eventually died and left the planet to them. They were far better, than humans, after all. They were capable of kindness.

A few years later, the July incident happened, and while Knives told his pet to stay outside the city, when it was leveled, Legato quickly rushed in and retrieved his Master and Vash's shot-off arm. They fled to a different location, where Knives had stashed away quite a few Plants for to him to live off of. There, Legato cut off his own left arm and attached Vash’s to it, and Knives retired to heal from the injuries Vash gave him and gave Legato his orders: make Vash pay.

And, just as Legato told his Master that his brother would experience eternal pain and suffering, he found himself in the space between worlds, with an odd, white, cat-like creature who wanted to make a bargain with him.

Personality: It's almost an understatement to say Legato hates humanity. This is a man who, if he learned of Kyubey’s previous Witch system, would completely approve of it. He’d think that it was only right and natural that superior beings should live and profit off those beneath them. If they can find some use for heaps of refuse before it rots away, there’s no reason for them to not take advantage of it, and those who were used should be eternally grateful that they were able to help before rotting away. Not that Legato doesn’t have his own reasons for hating humanity and thinking that the human race is nothing more than a pile of foul-smelling, writhing maggots (the fact that humanity ruined Earth’s environment to the point where they had to search for a new home, how easily the crew on the SEEDS ship turned on each other, and his own past and observations of people on the hellhole known as Gunsmoke), but it doesn’t really change the fact that his beliefs are horrible and that he thinks anyone who isn’t human is automatically a superior being.

Of course, just because someone is a superior being in Legato’s mind doesn’t mean that Legato will like them. If they think that humans should be saved, helped, and live on the same level as them, he’ll think that they’re being foolish and denying the truth-that humanity is scum and deserves to be burned away, especially since every man, woman, and child is going to die eventually anyway. The sooner the trash is taken out, the better. If superior beings think that they should be friends with, help, or even fall in love with members of humanity, they’re only deluding themselves and lowering themselves to the level of rotting, maggot-infested garbage.

Of course, there are things that Legato actually likes in the world, like desserts and music (most of his scenes in the anime show him with Midvalley while he’s playing his saxophone), but they’re only distractions, things to help dull the pain of living. They don’t erase the fact that life is pain (at least, to him) and that humanity shouldn’t still exist or have any of these wonderful things.

However, just because Legato hates humanity doesn't mean that he'll try to kill every single human he encounters every day. Since Knives holds the same beliefs that Legato does and helped him so much in his past, Legato views him as his Master, someone to follow and protect until he can no longer help him. Since killing every single human he met every day would just cause trouble for Knives, he wouldn’t do so (plus, if Knives were out of the equation, it would be a bit tiring for Legato to do so, due to all the energy he would have to put into killing every human he met, and due to the fact that every human is going to die at some point in their useless, disgusting little lives), though he does enjoy himself whenever he does kill a group of people, since murder is something else that he uses to dull the pain of living. Sure, if he has to kill a band of thugs quickly, he’ll do so by making them all shoot each other, but..to him, that’s child’s play. It’s far more enjoyable to force someone to kill themselves by having them rip out their heart-which he did with one member of the Roderick Thieves-or torturing them before they die by making them gouge out their own eyes.

Going back to how Legato views Knives (and other superior beings), if Knives were to give him an order to make someone pay, Legato would do everything he could to make his Master happy. He’d lie, he’d pretend to be kind, he’d tolerate other humans if gathering some together would help him achieve his goal, he’d encourage, yell, speak in a soft, kind voice, and tell the truth, all at different points, in different ways, and with different people, but he would do everything he could to make his Master happy and to ensure that his hands remained clean. That he didn’t have to stick his hands into a contaminated, stinking lake full of rotting fish. If he was going after another, more foolish, superior being, he wouldn’t harm them physically (at least, not in any long-lasting way), but he would try to utterly break them psychologically.

However, if left on his own after encountering superior beings that seemed to flip-flop between wanting humanity to suffer and wanting humanity to survive, he’d be puzzled by the contradiction. He’d use all of his usual, sometimes contradictory tactics in order to get the bottom of it, since, in his mind, it doesn’t really make sense for a superior being to waffle between two issues like that. You either understand that humanity is a useless, rotting husk that has to be thrown away to make a perfect paradise or stupidly believe that you can coexist alongside them, that something good can come out of them. A space in between those two beliefs would just completely puzzle him, and he’d do everything he could to find out exactly why this superior being seemed to be waffling and if they were just as foolish as Knives’s brother. Of course, all this kind of highlights one of Legato’s faults-he’s good at following orders and coming up with plans for someone or something superior, but he doesn’t really have any huge dreams or goals for himself, other than being used by Knives or some other wonderful superior being. It makes sense, considering the way he views humanity and himself, but it also means that, beyond the wishes of those whom he deems superior, he doesn’t have any major wishes or goals, other than for all of humanity (including himself) to die.

Now, as you may have noticed, Legato enjoys using colorful, disgusting metaphors when talking about humans and refers to the world as being like play. Canonically, he called the plot he was setting up a tragedy and acted like he was scriptwriter, semi-director, and an actor all at once. He even acted like an audience member, watching Vash’s encounters with a few members of the Gung-ho Guns (like his encounter with E.G. Mine and Rai-dai the Blade) just so he could further enjoy the tragedy he was creating. It’s just something else that Legato uses to help dull the pain of living while he continues to try and serve his Master and awaits his own death and the death of the rest of humanity.

Wish:

“I wish for Vash the Stampede to experience eternal pain and suffering.”

Due to Legato’s past, his viewpoints, and his connection to Knives, Legato utterly hates Vash for constantly rejecting his brother, for shooting him in the leg once in the past, and for trying to kill him instead of joining him and properly disposing of all the maggots like he should have, especially since they were all destined to die anyway and since a good number of people ended up killing each other anyway after July was destroyed. Since Vash is still a superior being, Legato probably wouldn’t have gone out of his way to make Vash suffer unless Knives ordered him to..but, he did. Plus, Legato is a little bit jealous of Vash, since he is a superior being that Knives actually cares for and likes, which is a role that Legato would be happy to have, but..he can’t, which saddens him, though he’d never talk about this on his own. And since Vash is going against Knives’s wishes, ignoring the fact that his brother loves him (at least, in Legato’s mind, he is), and tried to kill him, Legato would just be even angrier with him.

So, when Kyubey pulls him into the space between worlds after he’s told his Master that he’ll make Vash suffer for eternity, this is the first wish that’d pop into his head. He’d even argue that it’s the most important wish for him to make, considering who it came from and who it’s aimed at. After all, there’s no way he’d ever willingly disobey or ignore one of his Master’s orders, and he’d want to do everything he could to fulfill this one and make Vash suffer. Of course, since making a contract with Kyubey means that he’ll have to leave Gunsmoke, Legato won’t be able to see his Master fume at his sudden disappearance and try to set up the Gung-ho Guns by himself, and he himself probably won’t think about whether or not his Master was angry when he vanished for no reason until later. When he does though, he will feel bad about leaving his Master without an explanation, but hope that Vash’s eternal suffering is still making him happy (especially since, in Legato’s mind, Vash deserves to suffer until he understands that his beliefs and the woman he got them from are foolish).

As for the rest of humanity, Legato’s wish spells doom for them. Canonically, the first few episodes of Trigun are full of stories that, while full of action and comedy, are usually about Vash dealing with a group of bandits or other villains without killing them and-sometimes-helping people with whatever emotional problems they might be having. However, in Legato’s Wish Universe, Vash won’t be able to save anyone. If a group of bandits destroys most of a town while chasing Vash, he won’t be able to stop them from killing a good number of people too. Of course, Meryl, Milly, Wolfwood, and other people that are really close to Vash won’t instantly die due to his shenanigans, but they’ll only be kept around until they can die at the worst possible moment for Vash, and they’ll have a hard time trusting or opening up to him, even though Vash hates his constant mistakes and the way people keep dying on him. He’d last out a lot more at villains and question Rem’s ideas, which wouldn’t help his violent reputation.

When the Gung-ho Guns-who would be lead by Midvalley in this universe-catch up to him, things would get even worse, since they would have large duels with him, and Vash wouldn’t be able to save any of them after beating them. Vash wouldn’t even be able to avoid the Fifth Moon incident, since I imagine Midvalley would adapt his sax so that Plant bodies responded to certain sounds when he played them, and when he takes a break for two years, he wouldn’t be able to save the young girl who helped him. Milly and Meryl would still fall in love with Wolfwood and Vash, but Wolfwood would die at the hands of very disappointed Chapel (whom Vash would have to face later on), which would leave Milly in despair, and while Meryl would try to save Vash afterwards, when the final gang of people tries to kill him, they would kill her instead. It would be accidental, and they’d leave Vash alone after that, since they’d be disgusted with themselves, but the end result would be that Vash would completely break down after being forced to kill Midvalley and losing the woman he was slowly falling in love with, and he’d never recover.

Knives would heal and kill every single Human that remained on the planet, leaving it for only him and his brother. Legato’s only regret with this scenario (apart from not being able to help his Master on the planet) would be that he wasn’t able to die at the hands of his Master as well.

Passive ability: If someone were to touch Legato, they would remember their most painful, terrifying memory, and feel the sensation that's most painful to them.

For example, if Frank's most terrifying memory was being trapped in a burning building and, to him, being stabbed with needles was the most painful thing in the world, if he touched Legato, that memory would jump to the forefront of his mind and wouldn't leave until he let go. He'd also feel like needles were stabbing him everywhere.

Active ability: Since Legato wished for Vash to suffer for eternity, he would gain the active ability of being able to stop time. At first, he'd only be able to stop time for five minutes, but, with a lot of IC practice, he'd be able to eventually stop time for about thirty minutes, with an hour being his upper limit. However, it would take him two months to get to that point. Of course, this ability would be a drain on his magic (half of his Soul Gem would be tainted whenever he tried to use it for a normal time period, and if he tried to push it, more than half of his Soul Gem would be tainted), and if he was too weak or exhausted, he wouldn't be able to use it, so he'd have to be careful whenever he decided to use it for some reason. Characters holding onto him are not affected whenever he stops time, though their time will stop too if they let go.

Weapon: A metal flail with a long, silver chain and a medium-sized ball with long, thick spikes.

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Character: Legato Bluesummers.
Fandom: Trigun (Anime)

History: Since the Trigun anime really does differ from the manga, and since Legato's past isn't quite fleshed out in the anime, I'll be using my own headcannon to fill in anime Legato's past. Before his powers manifested, Legato was a pretty normal, nice kid, who liked sweets and running around just like any other child. His parents were puzzled about the blue hair and yellow eyes their child sported, but they just chalked it up to weird genetics and kept on going with their lives. After all, their kid seemed pretty ordinary, other than his appearance. There was no need to get all bent out of shape because of it.

His parents were musicians and named their child Legato in the hopes that he would follow in their footsteps and become a great musician and that they would all be able to be tied together, as Gunsmoke can't really be considered the greatest place to keep a family together. However, when Legato was about four or five, his psychic abilities woke up as his father was scolding him for being too noisy while his parents practiced. Legato, scared and upset, accidentally used his powers to force his father to break his jaw in order to stop the scolding. This was the event that broke up Legato's family, as his parents abandoned him soon after, finally convinced that their child was a monster, something they didn't want to be tied to any longer.

Convinced that he was a bad person for hurting his father-even if he had no real understanding or control over his powers yet-and with very little in the way of an education, Legato took to the streets to survive. There he stayed until his late teens, honing his abilities, stealing, and seeing how cruel humans could be. He saw that it wasn't uncommon for parents to abandon their children in the groups of street urchins he saw. He saw just how little people thought of others in the constant violence, thievery, and slavery that occurred. He himself was a testament to how horrible humanity was-he had injured his father, caused his parents to run away in fear, and kept on injuring and stealing from others so that he could live. He, along with everyone else, was horrible. As Legato continued to live, the townsfolk tried to ignore him as best they could, as his powers were nothing to sneeze at, and Legato started to wonder just what was the point of living, especially if you hurt other people? What good was it when everyone eventually died?

Legato's answer came at the end of his life as a street urchin. One day, a store owner caught him by surprise, beat him until he was too weak to use his powers, and tied him up so that he could be sold to some slavers the next day. However, Knives, Vash's brother, came into the city and started killing everyone as the store owner was haggling prices with the slavers in the middle of town. Legato, who was with them, bound, beaten, and tired, couldn't help but be amazed and slightly terrified at this stranger. It didn't matter who it was, he killed everyone, man, woman, and child.

Legato only managed to survive because he became terrified and was able to use his powers to force Knives to not kill him. While he wondered what the point of living was, he still held the basic urge to survive, and Knives, impressed with the odd powers this disgusting human held, undid his bounds and told Legato that he could come with him. This was the first real act of kindness Legato had experienced in years, and Legato accepted the offer, puzzled and amazed at the man's kindness-after all, he had both freed him, taken him in, and killed everyone in town. Legato had never really liked them. After all, they had never been kind to him.

As Legato wandered with Knives, he helped him kill other humans, and Knives helped fill in the blanks in Legato's education when it was necessary and explained to his new right-hand man just what he was, along with everything else in his past. It was at this point that Legato started calling Knives his Master and bought into the anti-human beliefs that Knives sported. After all, humans destroyed everything in their path and caused pain and suffering. There was no reason for them to live. Knives and his foolish, idiotic brother lived outside of human time, as they were at the very least, a hundred years old. It would be better if every single human-including himself-eventually died and left the planet to them. They were far better, than humans, after all. They were capable of kindness.

A few years later, the July incident happened, and while Knives told his pet to stay outside the city, when it was leveled, Legato quickly rushed in and retrieved his Master and Vash's shot-off arm. They fled to a different location, where Knives had stashed away quite a few Plants for to him to live off of. There, Knives retired to heal from the injuries Vash gave him and gave Legato his orders: make Vash pay. His orders and his own anger were what convinced Legato to cause Vash eternal pain and suffering for what he had done to his brother.

In preparation, Legato replaced his left arm with the one Vash had lost so that he could be even closer to his perfect Master and know more about how Plant bodies operate and formed the Gung-ho Guns, a group of people that would eventually cause Vash suffering by engaging him in fights. Either Vash killed them, or they would be killed by Legato. Once all the members were gone, he would try to get Vash to kill him. Not that Legato told the other members this. He only told them that they were trying to destroy Vash the Stampede and gave them various bits of Lost Technology-which is rare technology that can allow people to do almost superhuman things- that Knives had either created or squirreled away to help them. The members of the group are: Monev the Gale, Dominique the Cyclops, E.G. Mine, Zazie the Beast, Leonof the Puppetmaster, Hoppered the Gauntlet, Gray the Ninelives, Caine the Longshot, Rai-Dei the Blade, Midvalley the Hornfreak, and Chapel the Evergreen. Chapel is probably one of the most important, as he has connections to Wolfwood, who worked as a low-level assassin for them and would eventually take on more duties.

Legato, however, will enter DDD before his main plot gets to kick off. Details on what happened later on in the Trigun canon can be found below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Trigun_media#Episodes

Personality: It's almost an understatement to say Legato hates humanity. He loathes every single member with a burning passion, including himself, enough to brutally torture and kill the Gun-ho Guns when Vash doesn't kill them and enough to possibly cook and feed a shoemakers tongue to an orphan girl, as it's hinted that he might have done this in the anime upon meeting Vash. However, this doesn't mean that he'll just try to kill every single human he encounters every day. After all, they'll all die someday, so there's no need to attack someone outside of his orders unless they really irritate him. The massacre of the Roderick Thieves is a good example of this. Legato might have gone on munching his cake if they hadn't shot at him and told him that the women with them were new slaves. Thanks to his past, Legato really doesn't like slave traders, but he can usually force himself to ignore them unless they bother him like the Roderick Thieves did.

There's another reason he doesn't bother humans unless he has to-he doesn't like them. Why waste time with something you don't enjoy? Plus, they might try to stop him or his Master from fulfilling their plans, and though their efforts will be futile, he can't have that. Legato really does believe that Plants like Knives and Vash are superior, even though Vash's pacifistic beliefs are worthless to him. As a result, none of his plans involve him physically harming Vash-unless one of the Guns get in a few shots, but Vash is a superior being and will win-but they do involve psychologically torturing him in order to get him to realize that his brother is right and that trying to kill him in July was wrong. After all, Knives gave orders for revenge, and Legato wanted to follow them. After all, he does love and respect the Plant, and he works for him of his own free will. If he didn't want to follow Knives, he could just use his powers and walk away. Knives wouldn't be able to stop him.

An important thing to remember about Legato though is that he does believe that human life is nothing but suffering. There are some small things he enjoys, like sweets and Midvalley's music, but they only take the sting off it for a small amount of time. The only thing that can destroy his pain for good is death, which he hopes at the end of his play for Vash. Yes, play. Legato is fond of using theater terms to describe things, along with using interesting-usually detailed-comparisons of humanity, usually comparing them to a rotting pile of garbage that's stifling those who should keep living or like big, dumb, disgusting cattle who might be good for a few things, but will eventually have to be destroyed.

Legato has no problems with talking about his plans either. He usually doesn't say much to people in the first place, but if they actually do try to converse with him, he'll have no problem with talking about his plans or their fates if the conversation turns that way. He won't try to direct it that way, but he won't try to hide himself either. Why bother? People don't usually take him seriously, thinking him crazy, and they usually die shortly after meeting him anyways. When he is talking talking with a random stranger, Legato can act like a polite nobody pretty well, but he almost never smiles unless he sees something wonderful-like Vash's suffering-and he can come off as cold and creepy due to his bizarre appearance and his inexperience with people. It wasn't like his past really allowed him to learn how to socialize with people, and while Knives did fill in some gaps in his education, there's still a lot about the world-and other worlds he might encounter-that he doesn't know yet. Regardless, he'll keep on doing Knives bidding until the day he dies.

Other: As I've said before, Legato is a psychic. While he can't look into people's minds, he can manipulate their bodies against their will and will do in a fight, as he doesn't like getting his own hands dirty. He likes getting other people filthy. Thanks to his left arm, he can manipulate Plants like Vash, Knives and the general ones that help power Gunsmoke, though he doesn't know too much about them, other than what Knives told him, which was the basics. He also has telepathy, and it's hinted in the anime that he can either use his abilities to hide himself in a crowd or is very good at making himself look like an unimportant, innocent, person. I'm going with the latter interpretation, as it makes more sense and doesn't give Legato too much power.

Also, a great way to surprise or throw off Legato is to offer to bake him cake.

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First Person: We should have died a long time ago. All of us should have burned out or died in the impact when we fell from the skies. That would have been the best possible end to us, an end that comical, worthless human being stopped. The fact that you cling to her through your beliefs is pathetic, Vash the Stampede, especially when the truth is right in front of you. We humans know we’re terrible, worthless, disgusting pieces of rotting garbage that should be thrown away. I know it and so does my Master. Though there is one thing I can’t comprehend.

Why do they all continue to struggle, knowing they’re trash, knowing that the end is near? Every human I have encountered knows this place is an unfit stage for them, and that they are terrible actors. There are rotting pieces of wood everywhere you look, and the actors are always causing drama, both onstage and in the back. There are only two audience members too, and you, Vash the Stampede, can’t see this for the comedy it is.

But that is alright for now. A tragedy is what you deserve until you can finally understand how faulty your thinking is.

Third Person:Legato, like any other human, had to eat while he worked, so he dropped by a small town that wasn’t too far from the place Knives was hiding out at in order to get some cake. Quietly, he watched people as he walked. There were a few lovers who were unaware of the fact that their love and lives were going to end very soon, a couple of crooked, disgusting, gangsters who were laughing about the heist they had just pulled a few towns over, and a group of children, playing like they hadn’t a care in the world, like they didn’t know that they were simple filler characters on a stage for a small audience. And this play was a tragedy, so their curtain, like every other human’s, would fall.

Yet, none of them seemed to be thinking about such things-or, if they were, they were hiding it pretty well. Legato sometimes wished he could look into people’s minds to figure out exactly how they saw things from where they were standing on the stage, but it was a useless wish. He would never be able to, after all, and his current abilities were more than he could ever hope for. Especially his left arm. Having a superior beings arm attached to his own was more than he could have asked for, even if it was Vash’s arm, the arm of a confused Plant who hated his Master.

As he thought, Legato entered the bakery and walked up to the cashier, a young woman with short black hair who gave him a cheery smile. She knew nothing of the end either. “What can I get ya, hon?”

“Chocolate cake, please.” While he didn’t smile as he spoke, his polite nature was enough to keep the woman happy as she pulled out a large, black cake with white icing from the showcase.

“Oh, no problem! Would you like anything else? We have some excellent pound cake!”

“No thank you."

“Alright, then that’ll be twenty double-dollars!” Legato quickly paid and left with his cake, happy that he was finally able to leave this place. He wanted to eat near his Master today. Even though he was healing and might not feel like talking to a dumb, bizarre cattle, it would be enough to eat near him. After all, he knew the truth about humanity and how the curtain was going to come down.