If Zouichi had refused to comply with his orders, he was pretty sure he wouldn't have been dismissed as a failure; he would have been terminated outright. Synthetic Humans like himself were far too dangerous and far too costly to be allowed to act as they pleased.

Zouichi thought back to that flash of red light he'd seen on the planet. "Maybe. But everyone is capable of hurting the people they care about. In your case, at least, it seems that you can control it."

He frowned a little. "From what you've told me, you've accomplished quite a bit, made a lot of friends. With that in mind... why care about what you were created for?" Jr. was human, after all. He had all sorts of possibilities ahead of him... didn't he?