"Listen - I'm not killing cats just for the fun of it."
"I'm not so disturbed I find it amusing," he went on.
"I'm not just some dilettante with time on his hands.
"It takes a lot of time and effort to gather and kill this many cats. I'm killing them to collect their souls, which I use to create a special kind of flute. And when I blow that flute it'll let me collect even larger souls. Then I collect larger souls and make an even bigger flute. Perhaps in the end I'll be able to make flute so large it'll rival the universe. But first come the cats. Gathering their souls is the starting point of the whole project. There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order. It's what you need to do when you're dealing with souls. It's not pineapples and melons I'm working with here, agreed?"
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