"Using fear to make people behave as you see fit. It's...awful, isn't it?" But for some reason, terribly common, as though morals could not be learned in some other way. In Sotoba, they told their children that people would rise their very graves; little did the villagers know that it would actually happen. But even excluding the supernatural elements, the villagers had their ways of pressuring others into doing what they wanted.

The somber tone of Murphy-san's voice did not escape the former priest's notice, and he offered a sympathetic look. The tone did not imply that the other man believed that Hell did not exist. No, it implied that he had seen it, in some form or another that was not necessarily this institute.

"Hell is not a burning inferno below our feet," he agreed. The ones would claim otherwise were only terribly short-sighted