Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20150214203742/@comment-146.113.67.93-20150228071201

I'm not sure the monk is the one saying those lines. They may both be played by Gakupo, but the narrator constantly refers to him as "the monk" rather than "me", and he makes rather dry, morbid commentary you wouldn't expect of a religious man. Some of it seems kind of meta, almost. Of course we'll learn more about him later but for the moment it feels kind of like how "The Daughter of Evil" was sung by Rin, but Riliane wasn't the narrator.

Besides which, if he asked the people around about it they might have mentioned that she was lovely, in passing. So, while she probably wasn't there for very long, she still could have been around long enough for her looks to decay.