Oh, sorry about that. That's... really messed up.

[He feels genuinely bad now. Compared to her, his life used to be very normal in comparison. It would've been like a dream.]

That's usually where parents come in for that kind of stuff. [Hiro was generally rebellious towards his, but he still learned the standard lessons. Anyway, he figured that the only way to ask this was to be direct.] So what happened to yours?