[ Being outside and naked except for a towel in the cool pre-dawn morning is certainly a new experience It's not one he ever wants to repeat. ]

So maybe he regretted it. [ Not that Doku's imagined guilt will stop Gojyo from doing what he has to. ] Maybe when he got older somebody took him aside and slapped him enough times until he got over his thing about hanyou. [ Because that was surely the reason, wasn't it? Why Doku had attacked him?

There's a couple birds in a distant tree just starting to sing. It's going to be a beautiful day, Gojyo's black mood aside. ]

She was a youkai. My mom. Means the one who... [ Wait, no. Is that really how he wants to phrase it? ] Means my father was human. [ Did Doku kill him, too? He half-turns to Sharak. ] You're sure he never told you any of this?