The same drug trade that nearly killed my father made Diavolo rich and powerful.
[And that's where there's a brief halt. Talk of the drug trade touches too closely to the few regrets Bruno has even now, even knowing what Giorno is managing to accomplish. It's not that he doesn't want to acknowledge it — he's not a child and about to create an elaborate albeit potentially flimsy smokescreen for his mistakes — but it cuts to the quick all the same when thinking of it. Bruno clips it off there, leaving whatever Polnareff would like to interpret implied.]
Diavolo was selfish, but he was also ruthless. After he eliminated the competition, he was able to set the prices at whatever he wanted. People would be desperate enough to pay or do whatever it took to get the money together to pay for their next fix. And he didn't just expand the market in terms of its territory. He had his dealers peddling drugs to children.
[Because it was a perfect business model to get them started that young. Regardless of how long they managed to survive, he had them for life without intervention, and there simply wasn't enough intervention available to stem the tide. And there simply are not enough words to possibly capture the degree to which this and everything to do with Diavolo both disgusts and angers Bruno even now, but it's a cold anger now and different from the one he experienced in the elevator after Trish was snatched away and he gave his life to return her to safety.]
He didn't care about the lives he ruined or the families he tore apart. He was content to make his profit off the suffering of others. Any threats to the trade or the rare threat to him, he eliminated swiftly and turned them into examples until no one dared to challenge him.
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[And that's where there's a brief halt. Talk of the drug trade touches too closely to the few regrets Bruno has even now, even knowing what Giorno is managing to accomplish. It's not that he doesn't want to acknowledge it — he's not a child and about to create an elaborate albeit potentially flimsy smokescreen for his mistakes — but it cuts to the quick all the same when thinking of it. Bruno clips it off there, leaving whatever Polnareff would like to interpret implied.]
Diavolo was selfish, but he was also ruthless. After he eliminated the competition, he was able to set the prices at whatever he wanted. People would be desperate enough to pay or do whatever it took to get the money together to pay for their next fix. And he didn't just expand the market in terms of its territory. He had his dealers peddling drugs to children.
[Because it was a perfect business model to get them started that young. Regardless of how long they managed to survive, he had them for life without intervention, and there simply wasn't enough intervention available to stem the tide. And there simply are not enough words to possibly capture the degree to which this and everything to do with Diavolo both disgusts and angers Bruno even now, but it's a cold anger now and different from the one he experienced in the elevator after Trish was snatched away and he gave his life to return her to safety.]
He didn't care about the lives he ruined or the families he tore apart. He was content to make his profit off the suffering of others. Any threats to the trade or the rare threat to him, he eliminated swiftly and turned them into examples until no one dared to challenge him.