[At the stares around them Knives almost has the ability to stop himself, to end the conversation and insist they talk later if Vash wants to try and prove his point, but this wound - Rem - is one that Knives can't help but pick out. A century and a half worth of such focused hatred can't simply disappear overnight.

At least when he speaks it's with a lower voice now, bitter words hissed through clenched teeth.]

No. She wasn't trying to protect us, you fucking moron. She was using us. She was using us to get rid of her own guilt over what she had let happen to Tesla. She filled our heads with talk of how great it would be when we lived among humans and then hid us away the second other humans were around. She was going to keep hiding us once we were on the new planet too. Why can't you see how fucked up that was?

Why don't you realize that the whole time we were with her she was brainwashing us into becoming lesser beings? And the worst part is that she got to you. She succeeded because you let her do that to you, and every day I hate her more for taking you away from me.