[ He doesn't know. It's uncertainty that Gundham picks up, uncertainty and rage and guilt and sorrow all muddied up together like his fight isn't with Meng Yao or Lucifer or any of them, it's with himself.
He was bound once before, with that mask bearing that marking on the inside that allowed him to lock up what part of him was the beast. But, evidenced by the forest group, that binding was incomplete and the slaughter that followed isn't one by a being who didn't mean it, but rather the actions of a monster drunk on the thrill of the hunt, biting off chunks and leaving the rest so it can chase down another and another and another, unsated.
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He was bound once before, with that mask bearing that marking on the inside that allowed him to lock up what part of him was the beast. But, evidenced by the forest group, that binding was incomplete and the slaughter that followed isn't one by a being who didn't mean it, but rather the actions of a monster drunk on the thrill of the hunt, biting off chunks and leaving the rest so it can chase down another and another and another, unsated.
They think to bind him to what? And then what?
They're not the first people who've tried. ]