"You won't turn back, will you?" "I shall let no harm come to dearest Astraea" "May you rot in the deepest depths of this swamp" "How dare you pests persist in intruding our haven." "You abandoned us long ago, what right do you have?" "we live humble lives, leave us be!" "Plunge to your death...." "And let the acid melt the flesh from your bones!" "Ye covetous one, let it be known" "We shall defend our heart and home to the death"
This music is meant for Vinland when he sees you approach His saint. You are the bad guy. She wants to protect the depraved ones and the aborted ones. You want her soul so that things like the valley of defilement can never exist again. Symptoms of the depraved ones are among the elements the Old One brings in order to create situations that would require a rise of a particular type of arch demon. Although we were told the old one doesn’t plan things or have thoughts, Allant in the end tells us that it does have a will and we were mistaken all along. The candle maiden however doesn’t see the old one as a force of bad but has some sort of nostalgic and familial bond to it. Either way, we may look like the villains to Vinland and Astrea, but as long as she lives, so will the on going suffering of all the depraved ones and aborted ones. We are the cure. As cruel as we maybe. It is necessary cruelty.
