"They'd leave you locked up in here to die?" Nataku's brow furrowed slightly in disapproval though there wasn't a hint of disbelief in his voice. If he hadn't been useful, he would have been locked up in a dark cell and forgotten like Homura, or just never born at all, so what did he have to be surprised about?

If humans were anything like the gods, they needed no reason for that kind of action beyond their own fear and guilt.

"Did you disobey them," He asked quietly. "Or are they just jerks?"