What does it mean to carry someone else's duty without having any say in it?

'Who are you looking at? That child is dead since long ago. How can you smile at a stranger who clearly don't have any memories you spoke so fondly of?'

'Who the hell are you talking about?'

'Open your eyes already!'

'Stop giving me what's meant for the death. Listen to your damn real family!'

Thank you.

Thank you Hisui-san.

"Don't think too much about it." His other half breaks the bubble. "It's one of the many things I've been living with since forever. Let's focus in the future instead."

Sei's gaze only looks forward.

They have no reason to welcome sinners who don't want to atone for their crimes in their lives.

Get the hell off my back already!"

Doi can't find anything to say. He recalls the oneside smile on the person's face. Those people, they're clearly happy to see Sei but... How does the other male feel when facing them, while all they see is the shadow of someone else behind his back?

didn't mean it and whatever, grief erased their memories of the incident and I just happen to look a lot like the dead kid." Sei huffed, finally sounds annoyed. "Give me a break, nobody ever see me as who I am, it's always someone else they see. The things they give out aren't meant for me.

...by their own hands."

The truth came like a punch in the gut. Knowing Sei, he's known secrets that are a lot worse, but it still shaken Doi quite a bit. His life was not anywhere as stormy as his other half.

"...They are in denial, all the neighbors around this area know that well. Said they

more, then the shorter male starts speaking again.

"I don't know. We don't have any relation whatsoever, for some reason they think I'm their child. Everytime we cross paths, they treat me as if they have known me since birth, but I have no idea who they are. Their real child already died long ago

"...You are curious?" A half mocked smile. After all this time, this person is still as mysterious as the day he saw him.

"...Yes. I have never stopped wanting to know more about you."

Silence lingers between them like a droplet not yet want to leave the surface it's hanging on. A couple of steps

distance in the other's gaze. Hollow, guarded, reluctant. Surprisingly the person busts out laughing and called Sei a jokester before they part ways, as if they're a lot closer than just acquaintances.

"Who was that?" Doi asks when they're by themselves again.

Yes, hand tiny.

It's cheaper than last year but who cares.

sorry not lower voices, when they Mumble and then scream at the top of their lungs.

Yeah I'm just in for the experience points like a gamer but irl.