Became a Failed Experimental Subject

"Rehabilitation means forgetting the crimes you committed in the past, living an upright life, and atoning for your sins."

"Strange. Does that erase the wrongdoing? What about the victims who suffered?"

"Of course, the wrongdoing doesn’t disappear. And the victims probably want punishment, not rehabilitation...."

"And yet you’re saying rehabilitation is necessary?"

"It is."

I set down my bowl of soup and furrowed my brow.

"If, as you say, rehabilitation matters because humans can change, doesn’t that also mean someone who’s rehabilitated could go right back to who they were?"

"Then what? Should we kill every good person too, just because they might do something bad someday?"

"No. But if the law says we can’t kill those who aren't human simply because there's a chance they might become good... then the law itself is wrong."

"...Why do you think that?"

"Monsters are born with an instinct to devour humans. Humans who are like monsters, they have the same instincts. True nature doesn’t change."

A nerve-wracking tension filled the air.