I furrowed my eyebrows. “Look, this is your current situation. You don’t know what you want. You don’t know how to live after you are set free. You have no direction. You are lost. I set you free but you don’t know how to enjoy it. Stand straight!” I suddenly roared. They instinctively stood straight and lifted their chins. They actually looked high spirited now.

Even Moto stood straight reflexively. At the very moment, a flash of pain crossed his eyes and his eyes welled up in tears.

My eyebrows were tightly knitted now. They were completely enslaved. They obeyed orders like robots receiving commands.

When I’d told them that they were free, the robots had looked like their batteries got...