Vireo, who looked very weak, looked incomparably calmly at that reporter in front of him. The reporter's attitude of wanting to make a big deal out of the matter was almost written all over his face. Vireo coldly asked the reporter in return, "Have you ever interviewed a murderer?"
The reporter smiled. "Mister Payne, am I not interviewing you now?"
"That's true..."
After a pause, he asked again, "Have you ever thought about this? You firmly believed that this person is the murderer, and then you reported about him after recklessly exaggerating the truth, he got famous overnight and then he was executed on the spot. After a long time, you realized that the murderer, who was originally wrongfully accused, was condemned because of your conclusion, which was made with terribly little info. If that were to happen, would you feel guilty?"
"You..." the reporter said.
"No, no, no." Vireo smiled again. "This is already not a n issue about guilt. This is about...would you have nightmares? Would you be afraid of dying? You certainly will be afraid. Because you'll be afraid that after you've died, you'll meet that person, who had lost his life as a result of being wronged by you. You'll be afraid that he will bite you to death. No! You'll be afraid that he'll push you into the frying pan and fry you alive. Mm-hmm...perhaps it'll be more vicious than that...because, well, it's hell."
Vireo's remark made the reporter embarrassed and he was trembling all over.
"You...you've gone crazy! You're being unreasonable!"
"Me? I've gone crazy?" Vireo asked the reporter neurotically. After asking that, he even smiled coldly a t the reporter. That expression simply was like a ghost when the reporter had seen it.
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