[ It's not like adoption is an extreme rarity where Chizuru comes from, but there's definitely still quite some emphasis on blood relations as well.. to a point where she can't even really imagine a world like Viktor's, where biological families are actually rare.

The way she looks for a moment probably says as much.

(It means she also wonders about his family, but given the memory she just saw.. it feels a little too raw to ask.) ]

He.. did his best. [ She instead says, still wanting to be honest. And it's true! It's not like things were always bad. It just got awkward when he straight up abandoned her, only to start an army of mutated people.... ] Even if his intentions might not.. always have been pure, I suppose.. But it's not like he was unkind to me, so I really thought of him as my father..

[ She shakes her head. ]

I'm so sorry. I shouldn't just talk about myself here, especially since you had to see one of your old memories again as well.