[There's a troubled hum from his chest, and he stares down at the cat lying next to him. Just an ordinary pet. No one expected anything more of it except to be a pet. But what about All Mates like Beni, or like he used to be? Were they really just tools for their owners, with no true emotional attachment? He doesn't want to think that, after all the times Aoba had told him how much he mattered - not that Aoba could remember any of that from their time in Platinum Jail. But the way Koujaku seems to brush Beni off makes him think that maybe... All Mates were never meant to be important to people beyond the usefulness of their programming. He knows he's different but he doesn't like thinking that All Mates don't matter as much as people do.]
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[There's a troubled hum from his chest, and he stares down at the cat lying next to him. Just an ordinary pet. No one expected anything more of it except to be a pet. But what about All Mates like Beni, or like he used to be? Were they really just tools for their owners, with no true emotional attachment? He doesn't want to think that, after all the times Aoba had told him how much he mattered - not that Aoba could remember any of that from their time in Platinum Jail. But the way Koujaku seems to brush Beni off makes him think that maybe... All Mates were never meant to be important to people beyond the usefulness of their programming. He knows he's different but he doesn't like thinking that All Mates don't matter as much as people do.]
What are All Mates to you?