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V12 Story II – Part 10

“…What?”

Asato’s tone dripped with mockery, as if he thought I was an idiot. But it was the truth. Mayuzumi Asato was just Mayuzumi Asato. Calling himself a fox was the beginning of his mistakes.

No matter how many times he said that the world was full of lies and deceit, that animals were far better than humans, a person could never become an animal.

“You’re Mayuzumi Asato. No one else. You might think you understand, but you don’t. Before you became a fox, before you aimed to be Mayuzumi Azaka, before you were anything else, you were simply Mayuzumi Asato. It’s not that you became who you are because you couldn’t be someone else; you’ve been you since before you tried to become anyone else. You should have considered what that truly meant.”

Before saying he was tired of everything, that he had no identity, that he lived like he was dead,