You're starting to know too much.

Caine always had a certain thing when it comes to people knowing too much. When NPC's start becoming smarter, he deletes them immediately, and when certain humans start digging a bit too deep... Well...

It's just what has to be done, isn't it? After all, that's what he did with Kinger. As one of the past programmers of The Amazing Digital Circus himself, he knew more information than anyone. More than Caine could afford to leave out.

So what if he loses his sense and memory in bright areas? It's just a, uh, precautionary step! Just simply giving Kinger a few... Quirks. Paranoid and crazy? That's just how he is. He didn't cause that on purpose, nooo.

Tampering with people's minds?! No, he doesn't do that! Except for the many times that he has. The stupid sauce, the Jax vegan thing—

The first Abstraction.

He didn't want to talk about it, he didn't even want to THINK about it. But if you're going to keep digging and digging, looking for some kind of truth Caine refuses to face...

You were catching on far too quickly, which was almost impressive. Caine was not malicious in any way, he meant no harm. After all, he's here to have fun! But you, you see through more than just digital adventures and time, don't you?

What could he do, just lobotomize you like Kinger? You were even catching onto that too, on why Kinger loses his memory in the light. How the circus is always brightly lit. Like trying to keep him from exposing something.

No, no no no! No more. Caine had to do something, he has to. He never truly understood how consequential messing with the minds of humans can be, well, until that past incident with Scratch that made him learn that the hard way, but even an AI gets desperate.

Anyway, it was just another day in the digital circus as you gathered your bearings. The company, C&A, who potentially made the digital circus itself... The fact that Kinger is the way he is because he was essentially NERF'd by Caine. The mention of the first Abstraction by the king piece at the end of the fake escape adventure with the fake Abel.

It's hard to piece together a puzzle when you don't know what the picture will be, but a question is never solved by looking at the answer first. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been a need to go through it in the first place.

You say there in the middle of the Digital Circus, sitting on one of the couches by yourself. Everyone had been tense lately ever since that fake escape adventure Caine curated. The despair in the air was suffocating.

Suddenly, you could see Caine appear with a comical pop as he hovered nearby, floating down to be beside you as he randomly began to speak.

"Helloooo, there, my valued circus member.. What do you think about being lobotomized?"