"And the worst bit is, they would consume other beans."

"What, no way, why?"

"Truly, nobody knows. There were other beans that have been recorded in the ancient one's history, but they were all consumed. Coffee beans, cocoa beans and all sorts of others. It's my understanding that their world shortly ended for them after they had consumed one another."

"That's so horrible! Couldn't the other beans have fought back? Why would anyone do such a thing?"

"I guess that's just the way they were. I think the relationship with other beans was akin to a CD player or a photocopier is to us, lesser, inferior. I still would not be so cruel as to take apart something I see as beneath me."

"They would eat their ancestral path?"

"Yeah, it seems to be that way"

In the corner, Yamato released pressure from his air tank in exasperation. These new fangled robots just didn't understand it all but it was lost to history. As he understood it, the hooman beans didn't even grow from a stalk like a real bean, and they were more like corrupted data robots wearing flesh bags, like the ones you could see on the "rats", centuries ago. He would have said something but he was just too tired to explain.

He looked to the darkness around him, as his solar chip fizzled out and let out a quiet chuckle as he stopped.