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i feel like it's heavily implied that human livestock were intentionally "created", since it was pretty immediate that people for some reason got dehumanized and turned into, well, livestock, when I'm sure the author would've considered that unaffected people would obviously be against it and see it as wrong if it actually happened as a random outbreak.
I'm honestly more interested in the plot than the smut personally, because the author is doing the slow drip of new info SO well

I wonder if this has been pointed out before but i decided to reread this with the intention of really understanding the story and i wonder if they became human livestock because of that medical mishap that K mentioned in chapter 13. I mean isn‘t that milton and milo in chapter 13 leaving the hospital? The same hospital that K used to worked at?