Well...because once we got on land I started to learn about the stars and science and everything, and I wanted to go to school instead of just riding around on a vespa.

[So...he kind of ruined it himself.]

But I think in the end, Alberto got something he needed from all of that, too, because one of the humans kind of took him in and he really needed a dad.

[As for why they were doing it in the first place...]

We'd been sneaking off to an abandoned island together, and my parents found out I was going on land. They were going to send me to the Deep.