The chef sat back, surprised by the boy's admission. For someone this innocent seeming to have killed someone close to them... it was a terrible thing. There must have been a reason, such as the Institute having control over one of them, like Usopp said they'd done to Luffy...

He hated this place more and more every day.

"Were either of you brainwashed?" he asked far more gently. "Sit back down. Tell me what happened."