I never hurt him. No matter how much he deserved it or how much Father wanted it. That isn't justice.

But it doesn't make him your savior either. He just realized that all those copies of me he kept building couldn't actually beat me. Everything he does is just to serve him. A robot uprising with himself at the top of everything? Flipping which side is enslaved isn't equality. And one day maybe you'll understand that.

[But now his face feels hot and he finds himself less interested in Proto's response. It'll be something hurtful and it won't change anything. He starts downstairs, clutching the banister tightly after he stumbles on the first two steps. He hasn't mastered that kind of movement yet. The ankle joint is in the wrong place on a human body.]