What exactly was right and what was wrong? Mantis could no longer tell at this moment.
Children, family, friendship, kinship—these things kept battering Mantis without pause.
So this is how painful losing a child is. Ego has been doing this all along, killing his children.
But this child doesn't belong entirely to him either. The child's mother exists too. Is this what the pain of losing a child feels like?
At the thought, tears once again fell from Mantis's eyes.
For a moment, Mantis actually failed to emerge from Jason's sorrowful emotions and was deeply affected by them.
Compared to Master Ego, who had always been cold, hitting and berating her whenever he pleased and beating her countless times, Mantis seemed to prefer this feeling of being alive.
In Mantis's instinctive understanding, this seemed to be what the emotions of life were supposed to be like.
Not cold and heartless like Ego, as if he could crush her to death the very next moment.
Compared to the pain of losing a loved one that Jason felt, these vivid emotions actually made Mantis yearn for them even more.
Leo and the others before her were the first outsiders Mantis had ever spent so much time with. Almost an hour had passed, and there was still no movement from Ego's side.
In the past, Ego's children would usually be here alone, while Ego took them away for private conversations. Mantis had never had a chance to interact or communicate with them.
Although she had only spent a short hour with Leo and the others, they were the people Mantis knew most deeply and felt closest to, aside from Ego.
No, the concept of closeness did not even exist for Mantis.
For her, there was only the instinct of life: seeking advantage, avoiding