“You ever realize how fuckin’ fragile a promise actually is?”

“Shit’s made outta glass with how easy it is to break.”

“Lemme give you a lil insight.”

“I once had a bitch ass chemist named Nox offer me a lil deal, right? I go out of my way to beat the piss outta Destructo Bitch and his dead ass dad, and in return I get a nice, fat payout. Pretty easy shit.”

“Except, when I went to get my money? This mother fucker refused to pay. Nah, more than that, that fuck face poisoned me. Took that promise, broke it in his grubby little hands, and shoved it right back in my god damn face. By the time I got outta that fuckin’ office I was shit outta credits with a week long hangover.”

“But, shit, it’s a learnin’ experience.”

“Because now I know, don’t I? Words ain’t worth dick. Contracts ain’t worth the paper they’re printed on.”

“And your boy Hatchet? He ain’t takin’ shit at face value. Because promises can break, contracts can be torn.”

“All it took me was one bad deal to learn that.”

“It raises the question, though, Grim. If it it only took one broken promise for me to learn… Then why the fuck are you still so god damn stupid?”

“Now, I ain’t gonna say I’ve been watchin’ you, not with that fucked up face. But I heard, man. I heard about every last promise you clung onto, and I also heard about how every last one of those promises blew up in your face.”

“Vision was the first, right? Ya boy Vincent said you were his best friend, he promised to be by your side… And next thing you know he broke that shit in your face. Turned it to glass and shredded off your skin until you were left a changed man. He killed the man you were and you were just ganna refuse to learn?”

“Apokalypsis was next, right? Promised you to see the other side of that big door, promised to be by your side until the very end! Or until they decided they wanted to save themselves more than they wanted to be your friend. Shit, Nox was there to make sure they broke the promise in style, wasn’t he?”

“Even now, you stand by Muerte’s side all because he promised he was trying? You have his word he’ll do better?”

“You must be retarded.”

“Lemme lay it out for you, Skull Fuck. What sets us apart is what we took away. You’re so fuckin’ gullible that you’ll believe anything someone says to you even if every promise, every oath, ended with you sufferin’.”

“And I learned my lesson.”

“But since you didn’t, lemme give you some more promises for me to break.”

“I promise I won’t kick the shit outta you.”

“I promise I won’t curbstomp your teeth in.”

“And most of all? I promise, from the bottom of my fucked up lil heart…”

“You, and everyone you know, ain’t gonna get downed by the clown.”