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Yumyulack’s auto-kill vest origin story comic

later in the ship:

“… Yumyulack,” Korvo blurts out, hugging the Pupa’s warm body close to himself. He can’t stop thinking about that old tree. He’s so afraid. The anxious pounding in his chest feels like enough to give him a heart attack. He would never see that old tree again–that old, wise, forgiving oak tree. He might never see any oak tree ever again.

Terry stretched out one of his arms while the other stayed steady on the steering wheel. “What?”

“I’m naming my replicant ‘Yumyulack’.”

Yumyulack itched under his neck collar. He wished that of all the calculations Korvo performed, he would’ve at least had the foresight to make the vest out of something not itchy. “Okay, cool.”