章 1459: Broken (2)

TOH

Does that mean, when he met Sumire in the first life? There was already a seed of madness?

"I dismissed it thinking the whispers of the adults around us were getting to him. I did my best to encourage him to speak, to integrate him more into society and for a while he seemed normal. But when father suddenly started playing favourites, I realized something was amiss."

"He said something to your father?" Toh guessed.

"He set up situations where I looked incompetent. It was foolish, and if our father was truly as smart as he claimed. He would have noticed Alex tricks but he didn't. When I realized it was my own brother that caused my misery, I started to think about where it could have gone wrong. Didn't I do my best to help him?"

"And you became corrupted after that?"