Talk:Madama Butterfly/@comment-7986022-20141218062344/@comment-1661895-20141218132238

I think it can be assumed from particular dialogue in the first game that it actually wasn't always the case. Enzo specifically says that:

"All you can remember is that you're a witch. But now you're stuck, because you've gotta sacrifice our halo-wearing friends everyday or they'll drag your ass back down to hell."

Notice how he says that now she's stuck. It seems to imply that because Bayonetta was sealed away for so long that only now does she have to do this sacrifice in order to keep the demons happy. It's probably because of how she hasn't been keeping up her part of the contract for 500 years.

After all, there isn't anything in Antonio's notes that suggest all Witches had to do this daily just to remain in the realm of the living. Hell, Rosa most certainly wouldn't have had the opportunity to do so after being imprisoned for 20 years and yet she is still around to aid the Witches during the Witch Hunts.