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[It is evening when the boy makes his way back home, having spent the rest of the previous night and morning after at the Kurosawa House. Or... it was evening. What had happened outside? The sky was still dark, and his home
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The sight of Itsuki, outside of his cell his prison the storehouse is enough to break her from her thoughts. She stops moving forward, unable to help her unease at seeing that the ghost had switched locations so suddenly, even in a place like this (it was the same village, and yet...it wasn't, because that place had never connected to another manor). He'd never been hostile before, but...then again...]
Um...
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...Yae?
[She, too, only serves to perplex him more. What are those clothes she's wearing? She's dressed like a foreigner.]
[Itsuki's stark white hair had surprised some villagers as he made his way back home, escorted by his parents and a veiled priest that were no longer with him. It surprised those that didn't pretend to look the other way - the children, mostly. It wouldn't surprise Mio, though, would it. She has always known him like this.]
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She shivers a little at the memory before slowly shaking her head in response to his question. Yae...it's always Yae. In this place, only Mayu could regard her as who she was, as Mio Amakura, and even then, her recognition seemed to flicker at times as she gave way to Sae. But that wasn't Mayu. That was a ghost, borrowing her sister's face and voice.]
I...no, I'm not...
[Her averts her eyes, wondering if denying wasn't a futile effort. She knew that she wasn't the deceased would-be Twin Shrine Maiden. She knew that she was different, because she hadn't left Mayu behind as Yae had Sae, however unintentionally it might have been, and yet...who else was there that could attest to that?]
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Ah... my apologies. You look similar to... one of my friends. [The resemblance is striking... Were they relatives, by chance? But all of Yae and Sae's relatives lived in the village, as far as Itsuki knew. The clothes should have been another indication; Kurosawa-san would never allow his daughters to wear foreign clothes like that.]
[He turns back to the girl, taking one light step forward.] May I ask what brings you here, then? Who are you?
[Only on few occasions were outsiders brought into the village, much less his own home. Itsuki's gaze lingers on the broken-down status of the house; he wants to know what happened, but refrains from asking too many questions at once.]
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[Who was she, though? He didn't recognize her, and if she was inside his home, he should have. Did she have any idea what happened?]
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[Itsuki follows after the girl, first stopping briefly in front of the closet beside the door she went through. When he hears nothing shuffling inside, he continues onward, careful and considerate enough to soundlessly slide the door closed behind him.]
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Except that one time]
...?
[it didn't explain how he ended up in this old village so suddenly]
You...?
[or what this boy was doing here by himself. It's been a while since he'd seen another person... Would this boy even see him?]
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[Everything felt so off. Each room he passed was in disarray, nothing was properly lit...]
[And Itsuki felt so alone.]
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[he stays in the shadows for the time being, walking with Itsuki to see where he was going. Though he has no physical body anymore, you can still hear the strange sound of uneven footfalls]
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[He pauses several times more during his walk - each time in front of what appeared to be a closet. He stands in front of each, staring and...listening? When nothing happens, he leaves it, his expression turning a little more somber each time. The uneven footfalls cause Itsuki to turn his head every now and then. No one was here... maybe he was just hearing things.]
...
[Itsuki makes a final stop in front of the Twins Room, expression blank as he stares at the closed door. He makes no move to open it.]
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