“I was the same as I am now.”
“Oh.”
“I liked having clear answers—and living according to them.”
“Mm, I see.”
“Though it wasn’t this extreme back then. I think I used to laugh more, too. At least, I remember being able to. But then my father told me I couldn’t afford to let anything slip—not even a little—and that’s how I ended up like this.”
“Oh... because you were going to inherit KL, right? And if you made mistakes....”
“Exactly. Unlike humans, we can lose everything in an instant. Not that my family’s going to go bankrupt overnight—but if I mess up, other anthropomorphs out in the world might get hurt just because of it. So I lived by the rules—my father’s rules, to be exact. From the moment I woke up until I fell asleep. I tried to be exactly what he told me to be. And now that I’ve been pushed out to the APA, he tells me to grow some ‘humanity.’”
Wooheon didn’t usually talk about the past.
He hated it.
He thought it was embarrassing.
