Dio Brando Quotes

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“I do not know. How many loaves of bread have you eaten in your lifetime?”

Zeppeli asks for a body count and receives a rhetorical device, and the dodge chills more than any figure could. A number would place Dio among monsters that can be tallied and hunted. The counter-question files killing in the same drawer as meals, uncounted because unmemorable, appetite wearing arithmetic as a joke. Part One wants the audience to understand that vampirism upgraded an appetite rather than installing one. Every horror he commits afterward inherits this bookkeeping. The stone mask did not teach him to see people as food. It removed the last reason to pretend otherwise.

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