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Yuya was enthusiastic today. Why waste a perfectly good day being grumpy?

"Do you have siblings, Kyo?"

Silence.

"It's just me and Nozomu nii-san", Yuya continued undeterred.

"He raised me himself. I don't think I'd ever met our parents so it was always just the two of us. He disappeared suddenly after the war and without him I didn't really have a reason to stay back. Actually, I was very quickly shunned because they all thought I had cursed him." She laughed self-deprecatingly. "Fair enough, I guess. I mean, look at me."

Kyo didn't know what to say to that.