Leon and Vesperine helped Kai, who was still visibly stunned, his body stiff and his eyes unfocused as his mother's words echoed again and again in his mind. Even though a deep, burning hatred had grown in his heart for her twisted experiments, for the pain she inflicted—somewhere, buried in the ruins of their broken bond—he had still hoped that once she faced judgment, once she finally saw the consequences of her sins... maybe, just maybe, she would become normal again.
Maybe she would regret... Maybe she would change.
All he ever wanted... was to make her realise what she had done. To face her mistakes, to accept them—not deflect them.
It was wrong... So utterly wrong.
But he still clung to that impossible hope that if she admitted her guilt, faced the law, and atoned... perhaps she could become someone better.
Someone... human.
Yet...
