CHAPTER 20

VEL

My mind is still hanging on my conversation with Chen, especially his last 2 sentences. I don't even notice when I walk out of the elevator and get into the car. I only come into my senses when Tin calls me.

"Babe...!"

"Yes"

"You are quite fast, I thought you would be there much longer."

"It's just a waste of time trying to talk to him any longer so I just decided to leave."

Tin is the one who drives the car on our way back home. I think it's better like that because my mind still can't focus on anything else.

Can I trust Chen's words? Why did it look like he was held at gunpoint when he said those last two sentences to me? And what's with the nosebleed and blood vomit? Should I check his recent medical record? Is he dying? And why did I now feel worried over him?

"BABE!"

I heard Tin call me loudly and I immediately turned to him "Yes?"

"What's wrong? You been out of it since we left Chen's place"

"I was thinking about the things he said."

"I thought you said talking to him is a waste of time."

"It is."

"So, did he say anything that bothers you?"

"Yeah... kinda..." I look at his face and think for a second, I know he is my future husband, the person I planned to spend the rest of my life with, and we are now in the process of having a baby together. But still I have to be able to still think logically, and my logic said, I can't share everything with him. I mean, I've been planning a secret investigation with my ex-fling without telling him, what's wrong with adding another thing that I can't tell him.

"What did he say?"

"He was talking about my mother." I didn't lie, I just didn't tell him everything, especially the thing that truly bothers me.

"Your mother? Your biological mother?"

"Yeah... He said my mother is a special Omega with the same hair color as mine."

"That's quite specific, we can easily find her if you want."

I widened my eyes when I heard that "Really?"

"Yeah, we have a database of every special person in this country, pretty sure not many of us are born with pretty hair color like yours. We just need the approximate age and we'll find her in a second."

I was excited for a second, but then reality came to mind.

"What, you don't want to find her?" ask Tin.

"I do, but what will my parents say about this?"

"They don't want you to find your biological parents?"

"They never say it out loud, but I know what they think. They never like Chen you see..."

"Nobody likes him..."

"Agree, and my parents kinda feel the same hatred toward the other half of my biological parents, not as big as their hatred toward Chen but they always think this person was also letting me get sold in an auction. That idea didn't impress them."

"But isn't there's still a lot of possibility about what really happened to her. Maybe she doesn't know Chen sold you off, or maybe she's dead and has no say about it."

"Yeah, and that is actually the problem. because beyond their hatred toward my biological parents, they actually feel kinda... What is the correct word for it... jealous? I don't think that's the correct word."

Tin laughed at my own confusion trying to explain this to him "Just explain to me, I will understand it, probably."

I took a breath and started speaking "I can feel that for them biological parents still have a higher standing than adoptive parents. They gave birth to me, they are the one who bring me into the world. Even though my parents are the one who raised me to become who I am now, for them they are still not on par with my biological parents."

"That's utter nonsense. Without your parents, there won't be you now."

"Right, even a psychopath like you can understand it, but I think parents always have a different mindset in everything, especially regarding their children. Thankfully, my biological father is the scumbag Chen that they don't have anything to be jealous about. But what if my mother is like you said, maybe she was helpless and didn't know or didn't want me to get sold. What if she was alive and desperately looking for me all this time, while my parents raised me as their own son, never thinking about her feelings. They will surely feel bad about my biological mother if that's what happens. That's why it is better for them to think of the worst about my mother, and I want them to think I also feel the same."

Tin sigh heavily hearing my explanation "Human emotion is truly truly confusing, isn't it?"

I laugh at his reaction "It really is."

"But what's important here is your own feelings, if you really want to find your mother, we can always look for her without telling your parents."

"You mean like hiding it for them?"

"You can call it that."

Really, what has my life become? I've been hiding things from my future husband and the father of my future children, and now I'm also planning to hide things from my parents too. I probably will wake up sweating in the middle of the night because I'm so worried they will find out about my secrets.

But on the other hand, I really want to know about my mother. What really happened to her? Was she on kahoot with Chen all these time? Did she ever care about me at all? Is she even still alive? There's so much question in my brain about her and as always, curiosity gets the better of me.

"Ok, let's do that, let's find out about my mother without telling my parents."

Tin smiled wickedly, of course he did, he just managed to make me do something behind my parents back, he really is a bad influence for me isn't he?

"Pretty sure Ten can find her in a few minutes."

"Ten again?"

"Yes, it's Ten again."

I pout, of course it's Ten again, he is like Tin's personal all super powerful Google.

"Ah, speaking of Ten, he finds out about the people who tried to kidnap Jade."

"What? Really?" Ok maybe, the super powerful Google is not so bad after all.

Tin told me about the family of the thumbs collector's victims. How they split into two groups and how both groups come to the conclusion that I know who the thumb collectors are. Now both groups wanted to get to me to ask about it, in two totally different ways.

"So you saying Chen really has no connection to the people who tried to kidnap my sister?"

"As far as we find now, there's none. I'm sorry Mr. Profiler, this time you really got it wrong."

I don't know which one makes me more angry. The fact that I'm wrong or the fact that Chen is actually telling the truth. But if he is telling me the truth about this, he is probably also telling the truth about the other things.

The Garbage collector comes hours after the job is done, meaning the black van that the witness saw was coming long after the thumb collector was done killing their victims, meaning by the time the black van spotted by the witness, they can be anywhere else, far from the crime scene. Like in a cheap love hotel, with me... Meaning the only alibi Tin has that makes me think he can't be the thumb collector now is gone.

Meaning the person who's been trying to impregnate me is back to become my prime suspect for a serial murder case.

TIN

When we arrive back at Vel's mansion, the police are already gone. His parents and his brother are in the middle of serious talk in the living room while his sister is asleep in her room.

We join them in the living room and I told them about the people who tried to kidnap their daughter, they kinda glad it wasn't Chen because they don't want to get involved in anything with Chen, but on the other hands they also worried because pretty much two group of people now will try anything to get to Vel.

They said they will tell all of these findings to the police but on the other hand they will also tighten the security by hiring more guards.

"I'm sorry, it's because of me again." said Vel to his family with a sad face.

"Why do you have to say sorry? We all know you have been a troublemaker since you were a little child." said his mom with a joking tone.

Both his mama and brother also add some jokes that will make this situation sound not Vel's fault at all, which in my opinion is 100% his fault. Why did they choose to make it sound like it's not? they should do better as his family, get him to realize he should forget about the case all together and focus on his relationship with me. Nothing more important for him now except to focus on conceiving my child.

Of course I am able to hold my own tongue to not say anything about it. I have to appear as a perfect understanding future husband who will always support him in anything, which is actually in my mind and logic a totally stupid thing to do, but I'm a pro at putting on a fake image so I just do that for now.

"Well, at least we can be a bit relieved now, because Vel now is out from the investigation team and won't have anything to do with this case anymore. So once these people get caught, we don't need to worry about being connected to the case anymore." I said.

All his family immediately agreed with me, while Vel, I can clearly see he showed some guilt in his face because of his little secret investigation he did with Ping.

I'm a manipulator and great at using any situation for my own benefit. This situation for me shows that Vel is definitely this noble family's weakness, and the opposite, this family is Vel's weakness. Knowing this will definitely benefit me in the future.

After the talk with his family, Vel literally kicked me out of the house. He said want to be with his family in this situation because, yeah, his sister just almost got kidnapped because of him and it obviously is not a good time to spend the night with me. So I just give up and leave the house without any real resistance, even though I'm pissed because tonight we should've be still on our holiday fucking till he pass out.

With the thought of what could have happened in mind, I really don't want to go home to my own home. I never felt that house was empty before but with Vel spending so much time with me in that house and now he's no longer there, it makes me feel some kind of emptiness.

Then I remember that I need to speak to my dad about all these things. I haven't talked to my dad about the fact that Vel is still secretly investigating the case. I also haven't talked to my dad about the fact that Vel is Chen's biological son. Did he already know about this?

I really need to talk with my dad so that's where I drive.

The sun was already set when I arrived at the mansion. The maids and cooks are probably busy preparing for dinner and none of them expect me to come. No one welcomed me at the front door. But one maid came running when I opened the door myself.

"My apologies, young master, we were all busy preparing dinner and didn't expect you to come." she bowed so low with a fear apology.

"I already know." I said with an annoyed voice.

Did she say that because she thought I didn't know what they did? I'm not in a good mood now, and every little thing annoys me easily. I was actually tempted to do something to this maid. Maybe make her think I will make her lose her job and won't be able to find one anywhere else. she will be scared and desperate. But my dad always told me to treat our house workers nicely because they are the biggest mouth in this house. Any unkind thing they experience here will spread outside and our image as a model old prominent Alpha family will be ruined. Besides, venting my bad mood to a lowly maid is so not worth it.

So, I just walked past her. She didn't say or do anything more and just let me go. There's only two possible places where my dad is now. His atelier, where he makes another overpriced piece of art, or at his office, where he counts millions of dollars he makes from those overpriced arts.

I was about to go to his atelier when I heard his voice from his office. I stop in front of his office and open the door without knocking. My dad sits behind his working table, while one of his assistants stands in front of him in front of the table. Both looking at the door when I open it.

"Good evening, young master." The assistant that I don't even know the name hurriedly greeted me.

"Ah, are you coming to have some kind of rehearsal dinner with me before the big family dinner tomorrow?" ask my dad.

"No... But probably yes, there's some things I want to talk to you about."

"Ok..." my dad then turned to his assistant "Do as I told you earlier."

"Yes, sir." answer the assistant.

"You can go now."

The assistant bowed to my dad and me then excused herself.

"So, I guess you cut your holiday shorter?" ask my dad after the assistant left the room.

"Yeah, you probably already know about what happened to his sister."

"Yeah, it's quite horrible isn't it? Doing that to such a young lady just to get to Vel."

"That is literally the last thing you need to feel horrible about."

"Well, I'm sorry, not everyone is a psychopath like you. I especially have my empathy in the right place."

"Ha...ha...ha..." I laugh a fake laugh.

"So, what do I need to know?"

I start telling him about all the things Ten finds about the people who try to kidnap Jade. and how the family of my targets are trying to find me through Vel. Also about the fact that Vel is Chen's biological son. This part he said he already knew. Lastly, I told him that Vel and Ping are still secretly investigating my case.

"Well... problems..." commented to my dad after I finished telling him everything.

"Problems..."

"It looks like he is really a very stubborn person isn't he?"

"Tell me about it."

"But that is also what makes him fit you perfectly. I don't want a weak minded person as my son's pair. "

"That trait of his will be so much appreciated if it didn't bring problems for us."

My dad smiled hearing my sentence "And... you have any suggestions about how we can solve all these problems?"

I simply said "Scapegoat."

"Scapegoat... hmm..."

"I think it's the perfect way to finally end this case. After all, neither the target's family nor Vel and Ping will stop looking for the thumbs collector if there's no convincing suspect they can blame."

"Yeah, I also think that's our perfect solution, but... we need a perfect scapegoat for this, mainly someone who fits Vel's profiling."

"I'm asking Ten to find our perfect candidate for that."

My dad leaned back to his chair and looked like thinking for a second before saying "That special Alpha who has always followed Chen since 5 years ago, the one with blocking ability, what's his name?"

"Pop? You think he is our perfect scapegoat? He doesn't really fit Vel's profiling."

"Well... He probably is not coming from a prominent Alpha family but his relations with Chen give him enough status to fit Vel's profiling, and also, if it's someone who connected to Chen. Vel will pretty much think the worst of them and will gladly think he is the suspect as long as we give him enough evidence."

"Me and Ten will easily make 'evidence' to make him our suspect. But, why him?"

It's very rare for my dad to remember someone so insignificant that just passes by our life a few times. Someone with a high status like my dad won't remember some lowly employee like Pop.

"His ability, isn't it bothering you?" ask my dad.

I furrowed my brows, again, it's very rare for my dad to think of someone else's ability as 'bothering'. We are Enigmas, most abilities don't work on us.

"Is it bothering you?" I ask him back.

He sighs "Your permanent command, what will happen if someone disobeys them?"

"They'll bleed out from their nose, mouth and ears and they'll die, we already proved it."

Yeah, we really did already prove it. When I started showing my ability, my dad enthusiastically was so willing to help me explore it and see my limitations. One of my tutors back when I'm still six years old was a heavy smoker. I put a permanent command on her telling her she should never smoke again.

For the next few months my command worked fine with her. Then one day, somehow, she disobeyed my command. My dad said she was going through a breakup and felt like really needed to take a smoke to ease her own feelings. I totally don't understand that part.

Nevertheless, my dad told me, sometimes people's determination is stronger than our abilities. Seems like her determination that day is stronger than my command. She did end up taking a smoke and the moment she put the smoke on her lips, she started bleeding from his nose, ears, and coughing blood. I watch her convulsing while keep on bleeding until finally with a very painful expression she stops moving. That was definitely one of the most satisfying scenes I've ever watched. I believe I had a big smile on my face while I was enjoying the spectacle. The ambulance arrived a few minutes later and declared her dead.

"Why are you suddenly asking about that?" I ask my dad.

"Our spy inside Chen's house has reported that he had 'seizure' a couple of times, he was suddenly bleeding and coughing while he was inside his office alone with Pop."

My furrow gets deeper "You don't think... But... he could be sick or something."

"His medical record is clean, he is as healthy as ever."

I thought for a second "Is it possible?"

"Sometimes... People's determination is stronger than our abilities. They probably have been working on Pop's ability to make him able to break your permanent command."

"And make him tell everyone that I am a serial killer?"

Years ago when we had our deal with Chen, I gave him a permanent command to never reveal to anyone or even give anyone any hint in any way that I am a serial killer who keeps supplying him and his organization with fresh organs. In the whole organization only him alone knows about it. I also added another command that he will protect me and my dad's identity in any way and will eliminate anyone who finds out or even suspects us.

Thanks to that added command. He and his organization have been eliminating people inside and outside his organization who happened to find out about me.

"But, he won't get much profit from exposing us, right?"

"We're not his supplier anymore and he's been acting quite annoying these past month."

"He's been annoying since forever, he always thought he's on the same status as us because we made a deal with him, while in fact, he is just a lowly nobody Alpha from the slum."

My dad scoffed "He's your future father in-law, if you forget."

"Please don't put my Vel at the same level as that scumbag, beside the fact that the person donating his sperm to birth Vel, he has no relation with Vel at all."

My dad somehow smiled hearing my sentence "That's so sweet of you."

"Is that a compliment? Should I say thank you?"

My dad rolled his eyes "Yes, it is a compliment, and yes, you should say thank you."

"Ok, then, Thank you, dad."

"Your welcome."

I'm 26 years old but my dad is still schooling me about basic human expression.

My dad's phone suddenly rings at that moment, looking like a text message. He read it and his expression changed.

"You didn't tell me Vel is visiting Chen today."

"He did, but he said Chen didn't say anything about the case, he only told him about his biological mother."

"His biological mother?"

"Yeah, he never knew he had an Omega mother before Chen told him today."

"Hm..."

"Did you know about Vel's mother?"

"I did." said my dad casually.

I widened my eyes. This, also, my dad never told me before and now he told me so casually like it's not a big deal. anything about Vel is a big deal for me.

"Who is she? Vel wants me to find out about her."

"No need, I already found out everything about her, I'll send you the files. She was a Special Omega from the slum, and has been in a relationship with Chen since their childhood. She died when she gave birth to Vel."

"Oh..."

"Yeah, it's a shame, she didn't know her son would end up in an auction to be sold to the highest bidder."

"Yeah...." I remember my talk with Vel on our way back to his house from Chen's place. How he actually wonders what happened to his mother or whether she knows about what happened to him. Now when I know, I somehow feel a heavy feeling on my chest that I never felt before. Why did I keep feeling these kinds of weird feelings ever since I have a relationship with Vel?

"Vel didn't tell you anything else about his meeting with Chen?" my dad asked me again.

"No, he only told me about that, why?"

"My spy in Chen's house just told me that Chen had another 'seizure' during his meeting with Vel. He was inside his room for hours with Pop after Vel left and when the cleaning service came to clean up the room they came out with garbage full of bloody towels. Chen is in a good condition now and he is already moving on with today's agenda."

I stayed silent after I heard that. So Chen really tried to disobey my permanent command. Does this mean Pop really was able to make him not die from disobeying my command? More than that, what did he say to Vel? Why did Vel not say it to me?

"Did Chen actually say something that made him suspect me again?"

"What do you think?"

To be honest, I can't guess. In the case of Vel, I'm always biased. I want everything to go well with him so that I refuse to see that something is totally wrong.

Looks like my dad totally can see my doubt and said "Just act normal in front of him, don't show any suspicion on him. We'll still go with our family dinner as planned."

"Ok, and then?"

"We know he is still investigating this case with Ping and Ping will surely try to collect more evidence through his contact in the police force. You and Ten should start to put out evidence that directed the suspicion on Pop. He is our perfect scapegoat, with getting rid of him we'll get two birds with one stone. We will get rid of Chen's shield and we will also give everyone the perfect thumb collector to hate."

I smile just by hearing it. That really is a perfect plan. And I especially don't like the fact that now Vel is suspecting me again. We have a plan to make a perfect baby together. I don't want him to have a bad image about me when we are in the middle of baby making.

"I'll tell Ten to work on it as soon as possible."

VEL

I was lying alone inside my room after dinner. Tin texted me asking what I'm doing, I lied and said I'm in the middle of a serious talk with my family. I don't know if I'm ready to talk to him now. I just tried to think back to the past month when I started my relationship with him.

When I first suspected him as a psychopath, I just saw the raw characteristic in what I know during my very short encounter with him. I didn't know him personally at that time, that's why it's so easy for me to suspect him as the serial killer. But after I know him personally deeper, I can't believe he actually has any possibility of becoming the serial killer I've been looking for.

Psychopaths with violence tendency will surely show it in their daily life. But Tin never shows any violence tendencies, either to me or to any creature. Well, except when we had sex, he's always merciless and never tender at all, which I never objected to at all. But for him to actually become someone who kills almost 1000 people, I totally can't imagine that.

But, is he really? or am I just being blinded?

I'm deep in my own thoughts that I almost didn't hear when someone knocked on my door.

"Come in."

My brother is the one who opens my door.

"I thought you had already gone home." I sit up on my bed.

"Yeah, I'm here as a representative, trust me, it's better for you that I'm the one who is here and not mom or mama."

I chuckled, "What is this representative here for?"

He dragged a chair and sat on it infront of me "Well, you haven't told us about your talk with Chen."

"Ah... I already did, I told you guys he said he didn't have anything to do with the people who attract Jade and looks like he told the truth."

"And I'm pretty sure that's not the only thing he told you."

I sigh. I always told my brother everything. I already told him that Tin is a psychopath, but I'm not sure if I can tell him that Chen made me suspect Tin as the serial killer again. Pretty sure with my family feeling toward Chen, my brother will say that Chen was just trying to mess with me, and I don't really need that kind of advice for now.

But, if I told him that I really didn't talk about anything else with Chen, he wouldn't believe me for sure. So I decided to tell him the other thing Chen said that was actually kinda bothering me.

"He did say something else."

"About what?"

"He indirectly told me that I should thank him for helping me to end up growing up in this family. He said I shouldn't condemn him because I never even know how it feels to live in the slum like he did. He said... I don't even know what true hopelessness and suffering feel."

"Well, for sure you should thank me because I was literally the one who jumped into the stage to protect you from getting beaten more and beg our parents to 'buy' you." He said that with a joking tone and this is also not the first time he said it so I just laugh it off. "And if he said the other thing to justify himself selling his own flesh and blood, that's not a really good justification. Millions of people live in the slum but not everyone sells their children. He is just a big scumbag and nothing can justify him."

"But I was thinking, he was right about me not knowing what it feels to live in the slum and what true helplessness and suffering is. I used to think that I was suffering enough during my first 5 years of life but he was talking about how I live with that nightmare, while people in the slum live in that nightmare everyday of their lives and won't be able to get out of it. And when I think about it, he wasn't wrong. Maybe I really don't know"

I was preparing for my brother to react strongly again, but to my surprise, he just stayed silent for a few seconds.

"Well, I hate that he is the one who has to bring it up to you, but, I have to agree with you, in this thing, he wasn't wrong. Seeing your condition when we just brought you home, our parents being too overprotective toward you, I too being too overprotective of you. We, without realizing it, shelter you too much from the world."

I narrowed my eyes hearing my brother's answer "What do you mean?"

My brother sighs, "You do realize that not everyone lives in a mansion like us, right?"

I scoff. "Of course I know, most people have houses smaller than us. I have a smaller house in New Zealand and Tin's personal house is even smaller than my house in New Zealand."

"Right... You also know not everyone has cooks, maids, gardeners and many other people who do all the housework for us, right?"

"I know that." I said "I didn't have a gardener and cook while I'm in New Zealand and my maids have to be the one who takes care of everything."

"Yeah... that's exactly what I mean..."

I bat my eyes and look at him confused. "What do you mean?"

"Our house workers who work for us, have to come home to their one bedroom house and do all the house chores themselves, while also feeding their family with the limited money they got from working here, that's how most people live, most people who aren't part of the top 1% like us."

"Yeah... I mean I know that..." Then I was thinking for a second and asked "They did their house chores themselves? Don't they have maids too? I mean like maids for the maids?"

My brother smiles and I suddenly feel so stupid. How can I never actually understand what poverty actually means? Hunger? Homelessness? Discrimination? I thought that only happened in a distant place far from here, in a place where Beta is the leader and their society becomes chaotic. That's what I always know.

"This is actually our fault. With me, I was born to be the next leader of this family, mom always teaches me about every aspect in our society. Our business is education, and everyone needs education including the Betas and even the people who live in the slum. I visited the slum alot, even when I'm still in school. While with you, we protected you too much. I think we ourselves didn't even realize we didn't show you enough about the world and about the people who live outside our high society."

I was dumbfounded. "But, I did go to school with Betas, from elementary school till high school, and they all seemed fine..." then I quickly thought again, were they really fine?

I know all Betas who go to school with us were all coming from a family that has enough money to pay for the high tuition because they want to feel the prestige of our school so they can show it off to their family and friends. And of course they all go to different classes than us Alphas because Beta's brain will never match with Alpha's brain. But they also wear ties with different colors than Alphas. I never think much of it, I thought it's just so the teachers will easily differentiate us so we won't enter the wrong class. Never thought it meant anything else. Were they discriminated against? Was that what they felt? Is it happening so close to me yet I never realize it?

My brother smiled again "You do realize you go to school with our last name as the name of the schools right?"

"Of course, I do."

"You also realize, our school is the most prestigious school in the whole country and all Alpha children from prominent Alpha families go to our school, right?"

"Again I do, what's the point?"

"Meaning you were the King of our school when you were a student there. No one, not even other Alpha children from other Alpha families will even dare to make you anyway feel uncomfortable in our school. Most Beta will avoid you because they can't even bear the thought they will accidentally offend you and jeopardize their career as a student."

"What?" I can believe my brother just said that to me "I never act or feel like a 'King' in our school."

"Of course you're not, you are just... so gullible, when you were younger and mom forbade you to use your ability on anyone in school you always saw the best in everything. You only grow your critical thinking after you enter college and mom gives you freedom to use your ability. I'm sure you didn't even realize that during your school time, everytime the morning gathering is over, no other student dares to even lift their foot and stand up before you. Everyone moves away when you walk in the corridor. The principal and teachers never scold you. And the canteen lady always gives you a lot of food during lunch. "

I totally never thought about that during my time in school. I naively really thought everyone was just being nice to me, because I'm smart and kind.

"But not everyone is nice to me, some people also bother me." I tried to find some justification.

"Yeah, I remember Pond, the one you fought in your Junior year of high school."

"Yeah, him! He purposely pushes me till I fall when we have a basketball match and he calls me 'white hair freak' so I punch him in the face."

"No need for details, I know he deserves it. But, that kid's family is one of the biggest donors in our school. His parents come to our mom the next day demanding for you to beg for forgiveness to their son or they will stop all of their donation to our school."

I widened my eyes hearing that "What?! why did mom never tell me about it?"

"Because she wants to protect you. Mom still expelled him anyway, and his parents, as promised, stopped their donation to our school. They also tried to make other parents stop their donation and even withdraw their children from our school. There was a little bit of a power struggle at that time. But they really didn't consider that our family is one of the oldest families in this country with history and reputation rooted for hundreds of years. In the end, everything they did, not affecting our school or our business at all. On the other hand, mom makes sure that the kid can't go to any other private school in this country or in any other good quality school outside this country. He ended up finishing his high school in some public school in the countryside."

"Well, that is a quite satisfying ending."

"It is, but my point is, we really did try so hard to protect you and shelter you from anything to the point where we also didn't give you access to know the information about the outside world, about the wider world, and for that we are wrong. You probably see the world only from the thing we give you and you failed to see some wider pictures."

I feel like something is flipping in my stomach. How poor are people actually meant when they say they grew up in a poor family? To think about it again, I never really thought about it. How high our family is actually in the society, I never actually know. And if I don't even know about this kind of thing, what else I don't actually know, about myself, about society, and evenmore, about Tin. Maybe my brain and my knowledge about the world is preventing me from actually seeing him as who he really is?