…Ah, I see. So you are suspecting fraud. …Well, I can totally see him doing something like that, it’s true…he’s good at taking advantage of people’s weaknesses…ah, right, that reminds me. He did say that his hobby was human observation or something.”

- Human observation?

“Yeah, sounds totally juvenile, doesn’t it? Imagine a college student telling you that his hobby is ‘human observation’…but it was kind of different from, say, condescending…you know how when people who like cats see a cat, they just go on and on about how cute it is, regardless of whether the cat is angry, sulky, or simply asleep?”

- Are you saying that he sees humans as cats? But wouldn’t that be condescending in itself?

“Well, it’s not really like that…I’m only saying this because we’re using the humans = cats metaphor and all, but…”

- ?

“If it’s that guy, even if the cat is run over by a car, dying of a disease, or getting its throat torn open from fighting other cats…

…he’ll probably still say: ‘So cute.’