“When it comes time to meet the scales of justice, people will often try to apologize for their actions and offer repentance.”
“They’ll plead and beg for forgiveness, hoping that the appeal to emotion will result in a kinder sentence. Unfortunately for them, their resolve to do better is too little too late.”
“By the time they’ve decided to better themselves, the scales have already decided that their crimes are too severe to be forgiven. Promising to change by that point won’t alter the sentence at all.”
“It’s always when they’re near death that they feel any sort of remorse for their actions. They try to get me to ‘see reason’ before I deliver justice, but I know that if I show any weakness at that point, they’ll just commit more crimes.”
“Their promises are empty. Knowing this, I have to kill them in order to make sure justice will be done. If I don’t, then I’ll have another monster like James on the loose.”
“At the time of him burning my home down and taking my family in the process, I blacked it out of my head. For years, I convinced myself that someone else attacked us and committed an arson attack in his place.”
“But now that I’ve come to terms with the truth, I’ve realized what a terrible mistake I’ve made by letting him live. I should’ve killed him the moment he came to my rescue at Doom’s lab.”
“Now I have the chance to do just that at Ring of Dreams. Judgement has come for him and there’s nothing he can do to defend the indefensible.”
“But that doesn’t mean he won’t try, though. He’ll beg and plead for me to listen to him. To see reason and forgive him after all that he’s done to me. Worse still, he wants me to act like his ‘father’ and treat him with velvet gloves.”
“I know that these words he speaks mean nothing. I know that he’s just trying to talk his way out of a death sentence that he’s so rightfully deserved ever since he started the fire back in my cabin.”
“Your need to apologize for what you’ve done is too little too late, James. The only appropriate action to take now is to kneel before my feet and let me deliver your sentence.”
“You’re going to die at the exact same place that fire started. You’re going to burn much like your mother and father did that fateful day. No amount of desperate cries and pleas for me to forgive you will make me regret what I must do.”
“When I finish delivering justice to you, there won’t be a body to bury six feet under. All that will remain is a pile of ash that’ll be indistinguishable from the rest of the remnants from the fire you started.”
“No matter where you run or how long you do it, know that the scales of justice await you wherever you go. When you finally stop running, justice will finally be done.”