Lying-shisai

## Personality

Lying-shisai is a very kindly, if naive priest. He cares deeply for all the people that live in his walls, though he tends to be overly trusting, allowing corruptive influences to invade into his city under the guise of friendship. They are also a bit headstrong, if they have a goal in mind they will work hard to achieve it, even to the point of compromising his otherwise strict morals for it, though he tends to regret doing so after the fact. Despite his kindly nature, Lying-shisai is quite powerful in combat, owning a sugarcane machine gun and being able to take down foes that appear to be much stronger then them. He uses these abilities to take down any foe that threatens what he cares about, defeating such powerful enemies like the Witch in combat.

## Relationships

Kegare: While Priest Lying viewed Kegare as a friend and trusted companion for almost all the series, by the end he finally grasps that Kegare has been using and corrupting them for their own goals. However when it was revealed the actions were done out of Kegare's desire to have a body and no longer be just a brain in a jar the priest took pity and granted Kegare a new form, one where he could be free to move around but one where he could never speak, and thus corrupt, anyone again.

Witch Lying: Incredibly negative as Witch Lying has so much corruptive energy it actually alters the stability of the world. However despite this fact Priest refuses to kill the Witch viewing it as the same as what got them into this mess in the first place and thus instead attempted to once again cage the Witch. However after defeating the Witch they didn't seem to think too strongly on them; it seems that now that they view the matter as settled they have no further ill will towards them.

The Gods: An incredibly complicated relation, while he at first was completely loyal to the gods he worships interactions with Kegare along with him not getting answers to the things he had seen in the Hallway resulted in him turning incredibly sour and bitter towards them. Eventually after stealing from the gods and fumbling infinite cosmic power, Lying seemed to realize he had done something utterly horrifying and unforgivable in both stealing and abusing the powers of a god. He will spend the rest of his life trying to atone .

## Quotes

“No height jokes!”

“I can hurt things! I have a machine gun for such a purpose!”

“I think i'm gonna need to prepare a few rites to purify whatever the hell is in my head.”

“Damn you Dave!!!”

“Engage carama mode!”

“Much green, very steel, such magic, wow.”

“It was a bit of forbidden knowledge but Kegare assures me it’ll be perfectly fine!”

“I am perfectly competent and capable priest and I can deal with gigantic laser death beams from the moon caused by evil!”

“The amnesiac stone! For getting rid of all those bad memories.”

“We’re not Catholic after all!”

“For an instant, I can see it all. Every version of myself. In every universe. A thousand world’s and a thousand universes. All arranged together like rooms in a hotel. Each world has its own incarnation, living, or dead... but one world is empty....”

“I tried to talk to him! I tried!”

“Spirits! Gods! Entities all! I beseech you for answers as I have many questions! Amongst the many multitudes of worlds there is one that stands bereft of my presence in some fashion! I wish to know where are they, and what happened to them. I humbly await your responses.”

“You leave me no choice.”

“Every single freaking time a mortal shows up around here, something goes wrong! Something I have to tidy up! Something that I have to fix! Something that I irrevocably have to come up with some kind of ritual to pacify people over! Dear god! You people are- I can’t tell if this is incompetence or just plain malevolence!”

“Well then maybe it’d be better if you all went away! Maybe it’d be better if the world was just mortal free! Maybe it would be better if every single one of you *DISAPPEARED!*”