"Of course, I gave it to him! It was just a little money, nothing as interesting as this situation!"
Pengbonazi laughed out loud without restraint. His laughter was hard to gauge—how much was genuine and how much was an exaggerated performance.
It was like a child telling a joke and then trying hard to laugh at it themselves.
In a sense... Pengbonazi, a natural-born Son of the Moon with everlasting red eyes, had never truly experienced the rites of passage into adulthood.
The transformation into adulthood for the Son of the Moon occurs when they realize they are no longer their past selves. That instant when the emotions and desires suppressed by morality suddenly burst forth... the 'beast' overcomes 'love', and the Son of the Moon is completely transformed into a bloodthirsty wild beast.
——So-called adulthood is about shedding one's naive past self.
