“ I-I’m sorry for your loss as well… “ She said after a moment of silence, how silly of her to think she was the only one who lost someone important. The brunette clenched her fists, but then quickly wiped her eyes from any tears she thought about spreading. I have to stay strong, I’m not the only one who’s like this! She thought to herself as she took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled as if she was trying to get something off of her mind. “ Sorry about everything… I didn’t really want to bring up anything like that… “
( 真二 )
“We don’t… have to talk about it…?” the teen suggested, his sentence drawn out slowly. Fortunately, he didn’t feel like crying; while the loss did sadden him, he wasn’t as close to his uncle as his elder siblings were. He’d always felt that they had more of a right to mourn him than he did. What affected him the most was the distance Ryoko and Katsuo took from everyone after their uncle died. “We can talk about something else, I think.” He just didn’t know what.
