Zouichi wasn't one to make threats, not when he wasn't currently in a position to carry through with them. So he remained silent on that count.
He had no real framework for understanding the idea of branding itself; in a way, he'd been branded since his creation, by the very nature of his existence. Certainly, it was easy enough for someone used to dealing with Synthetic Humans to pick them apart from the humans they were designed to resemble.
But being held helpless, forced to acquiesce? Forced to watch as they did the same to a boy he considered a friend? He felt the old, familiar wrath building in him, the one that sang in his ears, that --
He crushed that line of thought swiftly and viciously. Later.
"Not Jr.," Zouichi said, on impulse. He didn't think it work, not when this man so obviously considered them all property -- and he was pretty sure Jr. wasn't exactly a normal little human boy, either. But he still had to do something. "Or are you in the business of branding children as well?"
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He had no real framework for understanding the idea of branding itself; in a way, he'd been branded since his creation, by the very nature of his existence. Certainly, it was easy enough for someone used to dealing with Synthetic Humans to pick them apart from the humans they were designed to resemble.
But being held helpless, forced to acquiesce? Forced to watch as they did the same to a boy he considered a friend? He felt the old, familiar wrath building in him, the one that sang in his ears, that --
He crushed that line of thought swiftly and viciously. Later.
"Not Jr.," Zouichi said, on impulse. He didn't think it work, not when this man so obviously considered them all property -- and he was pretty sure Jr. wasn't exactly a normal little human boy, either. But he still had to do something. "Or are you in the business of branding children as well?"