As they made way towards the forest Ru continued to pretend to be scared and terrorized.But the truth was something else..When Ru had suffered under the hands of his birth mother,he had also developed a few symptoms of a psychologial ondition called Alexithymia.With this condition,he had difficulty in feeling emotions like empathy,care and fear.The truth was that he had no emotional attachments what so ever with anyone other than his family.The first person he had felt an attachmet to outside of his family was his Alicia mother and he had latched onto her like an octopus.With her he was able to feel an emotional connection and for her,he tended to act his age.By the time he had realized there was something wrong with how he felt nothing for outsiders,he had already started to form an attachment with his mother and so he decided to not worry himseld over anything.