>Yes I know you've just cut your way through hundreds if not thousands of henchmen>Yes, many of them were just unaware security guards doing a job to feed their families>Yes they never even shot at you or even knew you existed while you choked and stabbed them from behind>BUT...if you kill the real villain behind everything, the one who has committed the worst of atrocities, then you are no better than he is...
Those henchmen were killed in self defense, the villain was just sitting there stroking his cat.You wouldn't kill a man innocently stroking his cat, would you?
The villain is a Pneumatic or at least Psychic. His henchmen are hylics, which means their lives are worth less as they have not attained true consciousness yet.
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