[ *Hyun-ae does try to interrupt a couple times, but *Mute's insistence gets through to her. She stops, and listens.
The idea that *Mute would care about her, even if it's as the last legacy of the Mugunghwa, is wild and unexpected enough to leave her quiet for a second. She wants *Mute to see her perspective, so the least she can do is try to see this from *Mute's perspective, too. ]
...Okay. I understand. What I did was horrible, and I won't ask you to forgive me for it. Whatever my reasons were, I'm still a mass murderer. I just have to accept that.
[ Deep breath in, deep breath out. No shouting. Be civil, no matter how much it feels like admitting defeat. ]
It's just... I know, I know that not everyone on the ship deserved to die. I know that now, because I got access to all the ship's logs. Before I died, though, back when I was human? The Kim household was my whole world. I barely ever got to interact with anyone from outside. Nobody talked to me about them. As far as I was concerned, the only people who existed were my family, and...
[ Breathe. ]
They didn't notice. That's what really hurt. If it was just being silenced, I could have just hated one person. But the rest of my family never even noticed that I had been mutilated. They just kept talking about how much better of a wife I was being, now that I couldn't talk back to my husband.
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The idea that *Mute would care about her, even if it's as the last legacy of the Mugunghwa, is wild and unexpected enough to leave her quiet for a second. She wants *Mute to see her perspective, so the least she can do is try to see this from *Mute's perspective, too. ]
...Okay. I understand. What I did was horrible, and I won't ask you to forgive me for it. Whatever my reasons were, I'm still a mass murderer. I just have to accept that.
[ Deep breath in, deep breath out. No shouting. Be civil, no matter how much it feels like admitting defeat. ]
It's just... I know, I know that not everyone on the ship deserved to die. I know that now, because I got access to all the ship's logs. Before I died, though, back when I was human? The Kim household was my whole world. I barely ever got to interact with anyone from outside. Nobody talked to me about them. As far as I was concerned, the only people who existed were my family, and...
[ Breathe. ]
They didn't notice. That's what really hurt. If it was just being silenced, I could have just hated one person. But the rest of my family never even noticed that I had been mutilated. They just kept talking about how much better of a wife I was being, now that I couldn't talk back to my husband.