The Vengeance Scripture was one Father Andrew was familiar with, but frowned upon given its nature. However he did as Monty wished. Who was he to deny the will of a dead man? He flipped open his Binding of the Scriptures to the final and smallest of the Scriptures. The Waltz of the Dandelions was still playing in the background as he delivered Monty his final rites.
"Very well my child.
The workings of the spirit are a strange one. We are in control of our bodies but not of our emotions. Not really in any case.
It is with this in mind my children I write to you. I write to you on the condition of our selves.
In order to get closer to Heaven it is imperative that you control your emotions as much as you can. Emotions will tear you from the path of life. Think of war my children. Think of the endless war that has wrecked our world for the past thousand years. Think of the death and destruction that are the result of our whims. Why do we let it continue? Why don't we stop it? Why do we have to bring destruction to all that we touch?
The answer to this is that we are weak. We are weak beyond words. We are a slave to those emotions that bind us. Lust, envy, greed, pride, sloth, gluttony, and wrath worst of all. We are controlled by something foreign to ourselves, yet completely our own.
So how, then, can we fix ourselves? How do we fix this world of ours?
First we must reject the very concept of our selves. We are not what we are. We are monsters, murderers, and demons. We are the furthest from what we consider to be human, yet the closest at the same time."
There was a pause as he flipped the page. the silence coinciding with a silence in the song.
"What separates the holy from the unholy? The dead from the living?
There really is nothing much at all that separates them in the end. What makes good and evil? There are obvious evils. Senseless killing and torture for humor are easy examples, but what of two nations fighting over food and water, two people? Which is good and which is evil? Surely two forces that come into conflict cannot both be good? So are they therefore both evil? Is the will to live inherently evil?
I cannot answer these questions. I fear no single person has the answer. Perhaps not even the sum of humanity can come up with an answer. What is good and what is evil? I cannot tell you, even with my status as prophet, I am powerless to give you an answer."
This was the part that most of their faith found to be uncomfortable. Their prophet, the symbol of their faith, was unable to give them an answer. He, the man they revered as the arm of god, could not tell them the difference between good and evil. Father Andrew was wondering if Monty was toying with them. A sort of final curse to this unfair world.
"Powerless though I may be I can still give you advice.
First you should love your neighbor as you would your brother. This will control your pride.
Second you should love your wife and not covet other women. This will control your lust.
Third you should do work every day. This is to control your sloth
Fourth you should remain stress free. This will control your envy.
Fifth you should give to the poor what you need not. This will control your greed.
Sixth you should limit your consumption of food. This will control your gluttony.
I have said all of this before and I am sure you have noticed that wrath is not among those controlled. This is because there is genuinely nothing you can do. You can throw away strength but there MUST ALWAYS be something to arouse your anger. If ever you throw away the anger at things that wrong you unjustly you have fallen to a level of something inhuman.
You may forgive. You may forget. But it must elicit some sort of anger from you lest justice fall out of order.
I was angry when I was imprisoned in my own shell, and I am angry that I am set to be executed by the march of time. But I ask that you do not rescue me. My end will serve as the condensation of this determination. It will serve to establish the restriction of justice, and bring with it freedom and liberty and sanctity of the soul. Give unto me your wrath and sadness. Destroy those who wrong you beyond the point of forgiveness, as is the only thing that can restore justice.
What I mean to say my child is that justice is absolute. Justice is the only path we have on our way to heaven, even if you must tear the heavens down for being unjust.
In other words, fiat justitia, ruat caelum.."
""Justice will be done, though the Heavens may fall.""
Monty said the final line along with Father Andrew.
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One person onboard was not at a station. He was the war archivist responsible for chronicling what happened during combat. He had been on the observation deck above the second turret with his camera, filming the guns ranging during this whole conversation. He was going to turn this encounter into a film on return to port. He would probably be granted a recording of the conversation as an accompaniment to the film. Or rather his film would be an accompaniment to the recording.
When they got into a proper firing position he would focus his camera using a telescope onto the boy named Monty's position. He was going to make sure that he lived in memory forever.
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The song had ended by this point. The guns were ready to fire. But Monty had not yet finished talking.
"You know, I think I finally found the answer to the problem our prophet couldn't."
*BOOOOOM*
"He was too focused on good and evil to look at the crux of the issue."
"It doesn't matter what is good and what is evil. All that matters is if it is human and if it is just."
"If it is just, then it deserves to exist. If it is unjust, then it must not deserve to exist."
"That which is human in nature will be made. That which is not human in nature will be destroyed."
"War is unjust, so it naturally does not deserve to exist, but it is human in nature so it will be created anyway. Peace is just, but not human, so it will naturally be destroyed."
"In order to achieve peace, we must stop being human, or we must tear down the heavens, that which determines what is just."
"The only way I can achieve peace now is death."
"I leave it to you to tear down the heavens."
"My only regret is that I never got to kiss a girl . . . haha!"
His final words were accompanied by a pitiable laugh.
He was vaporized by the explosion, there was no body.