About La Crima
Tetragrammaton
“What kind of person is La Crima?” Zhang asked Rascal one day as he was watching some lizard-like Ideas going about their various tasks. The sight must’ve made him curious about their creator.
“You’re from Caldina’s underworld. You must’ve heard of them, right?”
“Well...I heard they’re the inspiration for The Song Princess and the King of Indestruction.” That was the title of an opera—a tragedy—performed in Caldina. Zhang had never seen it himself, but he had heard that it was based on a true story.
La Crima’s role in it was that of the villain.
“Ohh. That’s about the event that got La Crima on the wanted list, so I guess if you know them, it would likely be through that. Well, the writer of the opera didn’t do quite enough research, but it was definitely about illicit love.”
“Hm?”
“Anyway, after that whole thing got them on the wanted list, our leader tried to recruit them a bunch of times before he got sent to the gaol—and after he was out of the picture, I took over the job and actually did manage to get La Crima to join. We really needed them on the team.”
“Is that because of their ability to create soldiers? The Ideas?” Zhang asked as he pointed at the mass-produced Ideas at work.
“That’s part of it. Idea—La Crima’s Embryo—modifies people as long as they have ‘materials’ and provide the ‘concept.’ Even if La Crima doesn’t have the required knowledge, the Superior Embryo just makes it happen.”
While someone like Rascal needed Machina to be able to design things, for La Crima’s Embryo took care of it for them.
“It’s a power that lets them create tons of freakish combatants...but its most effective power is the ability to heal.”
“I see,” Zhang said with a nod. That alone was enough for him to understand what was going on with them.
“They can use the human body itself as material to create a healthy version of it. Even if its something as serious as a terminal tumor or a neurological disorder, as long as it’s not a missin’ part like my arm, La Crima can fix it up.”
Basically, Rascal’s explanation revealed that Idea was an Embryo that healed diseases or wounds not by magic, but by surgical and internal medicine.
“La Crima’s treatments saved a whole bunch of tian lives. And that means that indirectly, many worlder Masters who were close to tians are indebted to them too. Embryos that can be repurposed for healin’ are pretty rare, after all.”
And since the main Superior Jobs with healing skills were currently in the hands of Sefirot, the cult in Altar, and Sechs, there was a lot of demand for abnormally powerful healing abilities. La Crima often claimed to be a merchant of life rather than a merchant of death, and that wasn’t an entirely incorrect claim.
“La Crima’s got lots of sympathizers because of that. They’re part of our clan, but they command enough forces to be the head of their own org. Even if you disregard the Ideas, nearly half of our supporting members answer to them. La Crima isn’t actually that good at leadin’, though, so they make up for it with all their Ideas that handle business for them.”
Along with Rascal, who was managing multiple front companies, La Crima served as one of the wheels that kept IF running.
“Ah...” said Zhang. “But is it really a good idea for the organization to have someone who commands forces that match yours? Wouldn’t this lead to conflict between the subfactions?” he asked, thinking back on the leadership of Mirage.
“Ha ha...” Rascal replied with a cold chuckle. “Well, besides me and La Crima, everyone in the clan is either a combatant or an agent.”
His expression made the significance behind this statement obvious: without La Crima, Rascal’s workload would be so immense it might kill him.
With that, Zhang came to know the biggest reason La Crima had been invited into their clan and thought, Those who run organizations never have it easy, do they?
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