* * * it was none other than rat man miyazaki who had stood with xysticus the unready on the battlefield of lepidoptera ; he , who had imparted upon this inexperienced and conflicted young general his righteous duty of slaughtering the armies raised and led by his belovedand rather adorableyounger sister , drosophila-13 ; he , who succeeded in convincing the dithering brother that her uncommon mix of compassion and survivalism rendered unto her a brutality most formidable ; he , who presided over the girls subsequent exsanguination upon an altar perched high on the cliff tops facing the deionized sea ; he , who gave solace to the remorseful xysticus by extolling to him the virtues of destroying beauty before it had occasion to poison his brilliant and duty-bound mind with a sentimentality unbecoming of a general .