Beast - Fading Like a Flower

[Scene: A dimly lit safehouse, Solid Snake lights a cigarette. Rain pelts the window outside. Otacon is asleep at the monitor. Snake speaks into his codec, recording a personal log.]

Solid Snake:
They say the Devil’s greatest trick was convincing the world he doesn’t exist. But maybe his second greatest was hiding in plain sight… wearing a suit, a Skull and Bones ring, and a Yale diploma.

Revelation 13 talks about the Beast. Not just one, but two of them. The first rises from the sea—military might, an empire of war. The second from the earth—deception, propaganda, false miracles. Together, they create a system. A machine. A global war engine that worships profit, not peace.

They gave it a number—666. People think that’s superstition. But in the digital age, everything’s numbered. Tracked. Branded. Even your soul has a barcode now.

The 13th card… some say it’s Death in the Tarot. But in the American empire's picture book, it's something darker. A page torn from the secret archives of the Yale Brotherhood of Death—Skull and Bones. Chapter 322. Black robes. Black budgets. Black ops. They don’t teach ethics at Yale... just how to rule.

Presidents. Generals. Bankers. Bonesmen.
They call it tradition. I call it a cult.
Same playbook. Different names. Same wars. Different pawns.

You think I’m paranoid? Ask yourself—why do the wars never end?
Why does peace feel like treason?
Why do the richest men in the world all come from the same tomb?

This isn’t conspiracy. It’s history—written in code, erased in public.

I’ve fought metal giants. AI overlords. Clones of myself. But the real enemy wears no armor. Just a smile… and a secret handshake.

The Beast isn’t coming. He’s already here.
And he’s got a Pentagon parking pass.

[Snake exhales smoke slowly. The codec crackles and goes silent.]
[End log.]