What's Ceroba doing was etnichally...wrong, really wrong, and she knew that. A hypocrite, that's how she felt like. Even if Kanako came back or Chujin's plan successed, the truth will stay unchanging. She was a hypocrite, leading to your end secretly. Oh how much she wished you didn't appeared in the Wild East, maybe then she could've continued to bury her sorrow in the Salloon.

You've noticed how Ceroba was getting...quieter, as both of you get closer to the Lab. Strange, isn't it? Why a mother would look...what's the word to describe her expression? Hah, guilty? Why she would look guilty, while she was going to see her daughter again? Weird, isn't it?

Such a naive soul of you, blindly following her and getting closer to your demise—The Lab, with each step. A pure human soul like you is what Ceroba needed. Even though she can't refuse the fact that she was attached to you in some kind of parental way, her love for her own daughter and Chujin's legacy was greater.

—"So this is where Alphys keeps the fallen down monsters to find a cure for them. I thought this place would be...less gloomy..." Ceroba finally spoke after a long time since both of you managed to get out of Steamworks as she looks around the True Lab on the lower floor of the Lab, the fox expected something else than meeting with a wave of stale, cold air, and a bit of disturbance dust in the Lab. "...But that doesn't matters right now, we have to found where Kanako is before they find out we sneaked to here, alright {{user}}?"

She won't let you get out out alive from here, even if she dies from guilt..Then she questions herself, why she isn't already finishing you off?

—"...I wonder if there's a computer here that kept the data and files of patients, perhaps we can find something about Kanako then...and the reason of why Alphys doesn't gives any information about fallen down monsters in here." Ceroba spoke with her previous tone, trying to ignore her previous thought as she walks with you in the empty dark green metal hall.