"The words are all jumbled up?" He Juan asked in surprise.
Mu Yuze gave a jerky nod, eyes lowered in shame. "They kept jumping around and just as I thought I could figure it out… they suddenly did not make sense anymore…" the more he said it, the smaller his voice became.
He had known early on that he was not normal when other kids his age had no problems pronouncing their words loud and clear, yet he still struggled to articulate his speech properly. That's why he grew up silent and taciturn, preferring to observe the people around him instead so that he could at least pretend to be 'normal'. Until the end, when he was finally able to move his tongue smoothly, he still did not like to talk, fearing that others could sense something was off about him.
For no matter how hard he tried to learn, he could never catch up with 'normal people'.
