I doubted my ears unexpectedly.

"─ I'm sorry. What did you just say...?

When I asked back, the eyes of my twin brother in front of me looked up and smiled sadly. Its righteous appearance, illuminated by the moonlight, is so beautiful that even from her sister's own point of view, she falls in love.

The pale brown eyes of pigment peeking from between my forehead reflect just me. I've always envied the color of these eyes, and at the same time I loved them. But now I even feel a little scared.

A quiet evening park with no one but us creates a space for just the two of us. It's usually comfortable. That kind of space just fuels even heavy air now.

I felt such anxiety that for some reason I could not escape the scene, that I was besieged. His hair, the same color as his eyes, was swept away by the soft night breeze. At the next moment, the hope opened its mouth again.

"I'll tell you as many times as I can. I always liked Chizuru."

At first I thought I heard it wrong. No, I wanted to think it was some kind of mistake.

But the hope looked firmly into my eyes, and called my name, and stepped forth. And then you put your face close to me and say "I like you" again.

It's our seventeenth birthday. I didn't expect to get a confession of love from my real brother on such a happy day.

It's not like she looks that much like her, either, because she's a twin of a man and a woman and she's diegotic.

But there was definitely a similar part, and when I remembered the impending closeness of his face, which reminded me of my blood ties to myself, I retreated with a sense of temper.

"Oh, oh... uh. It means family loving, doesn't it? Even if they don't say it again, you know exactly what I mean."

"In a romantic sense, yes. I've always liked it."

My hopes dared to look at me as I pretended not to notice, with a slightly irritating look on my face.

"Shh, like... we're sisters and brothers!? Besides, there's a proper blood connection, not my brother-in-law!?"

"I know. Still like it. I love you more than I can say in words."

"Oh... even if they say so..."

I myself had a sense that I loved my hopes so much that it was not an exaggeration to be told that I was a Bracon... "I like it as a paedophile" and it still struck me like I had been hit in the head.

We grew up underprivileged and abused by our good parents. No one helped me and our allies were only with each other. So the two of us have always lived in support of each other.

Even when such parents died in an accident and were finally released from abuse, they have supported each other unchanged.

No matter which one was missing, it was always' one for two '. It is so bound by strong bonds that it is unthinkable to leave.

I can't accept the feeling of hope, even though I'm my favorite boy who's been with me ever since I was born and has always been next to me.

"The truth is, I was gonna keep it in my chest for the rest of my life."

……

"But you started dating him. I've been curbing my jealousy for the past year wishing Chizuru happiness. I've endured it with the thought of spitting blood. But... as it is, one day you will get married and go completely out of your reach.... and I thought," Whether you're here or standing, you're gone. "

By "him" I mean my lover who's been socializing for over a year now. We are also mutual friends of the twins.

Unlike me, who is a normal person, Hope has excellent grades, good motor nerves, and besides a good appearance. That's why girls often tell me at school.

Yet they didn't show any interest in me. For the first time in that overgoing Ciscon, a friend of mine said, "My brother, I care too much about any thousand cranes, and I'm not overprotective? It's a little unusual," he was so worried. If this is the reason for this, then there is a point to be made in what we have done so far.

Wanted to go to the same school as me until I went out of my way to lower the level, or got grumpy talking about other boys......

"Ki, that must be it! I'm just stubborn Ciscon! I know, but I've been stubborn with Bracon too. My mouth, so I thought I might not be able to have a lover my whole life like this, but I did it right!

"How much easier it would have been if I was just letting it stuck..."

His eyes, muttering so severely, were even more serious. I never seem to be saying it in a semi-productive way.

"Please. Don't go any further..."

With that said, hope further reduces my distance from me.

"Will you pick me...? From now on, I just want you to look at me."

As the hope reached my head as it was, I caressed my cheeks gently, shrugging my hair to touch what seemed lovely and dear.

I unwittingly stretch my body. The tricks and the gaze are totally on the lover. Right now, it's not my brother in front of me, he looks like a man I have no idea about.

"But think about it again? Not just lost your mind...? 'Cause if the public sees it, they say it's absolutely weird... and even if we become lovers to each other, such a relationship, would be wrong!?"

"... I'm not lost! All the time, I meant it! Even if I'm wrong, if I can be with Chizuru, I don't care about the eyes around me! I don't mind turning the world against my enemies!

The hope shouted so, looking at this one with a serious eye. I'm frightened by the momentum, and I lose my temper unexpectedly.

"of, even if you don't care about your hopes... I care... A relationship that no one can tell you is just hard..."

"Does that mean I'm good if I'm not my brother? You only care about the blood connection?

Shit. Sure, I might have put it that way. Oh... I don't know why I bothered to say things that would be mistaken...

"What...!? No... not a word of that..."

Hope is wolfish. When I took my hand, I then tangled my fingers. I'm surprised by that, my body is getting stronger and stronger.

"You know what? There's a legend that the twins, male and female, were reborn in hopes of 'being alone in the next life' between lovers they didn't connect with in their previous lives. Maybe that's why I'm so attracted to Chizuru."

Suddenly, what do you come up with...?

Usually he was either a realist or he shouldn't have been the type to believe in superstition. Today's hopes are strange after all. Being perplexed with that thought, he now turned his opposite hand around his waist and was drawn.

"I've been worried about being my sister and brother, too. I don't know how many times I have suffered and mourned that unchanged fact. But... I don't care about the blood connection anymore. I'm ready to throw everything away for you.... Me and Chizuru can't get married, so they can't bless us from around us, and we might not make him happy in that sense. I think it's going to be hard. But... I know more about Chizuru than anyone. And I love you more than anyone. So I want you to stay with me forever."

He whispers so in his ear and hugs him hard.

When I had a bad feeling and looked up at my gaze, I was smiled back with a sobering expression, lifting my jaw all the way up my lips.

This flow……. Oh, I don't know what to do... I need to do something...

"Yes, I don't...!

Having sensed what was about to happen, I reflexively pushed my breasts of hope with both hands to pull them away from my body.

"Look, there's something wrong! My friends also told me, 'Your relationship is strange' and I was seen with weird eyes... I didn't know what to do anymore! Besides, I can't believe you've been looking at me like that for so long... clearly, it's disgusting and unusual!

When he complained so in tears, his hopes opened wide and eventually gave him a terribly lonely look.

"... right... right. You're disgusting. That's abnormal... Sorry for pressing so hard..."

"Ah... oh, sorry..."

I refused. Even though it's only one family in this world. Even though it's an important one. I'm sure he himself said the words he most wouldn't have wanted to be said.

"From the beginning, I knew this was going to happen. I knew there was no way you could accept it... Still, I couldn't contain it. I was afraid Chizuru would leave me and go far away."

"Look..."

"For a while, I'm going to chill my head here.... stay back."

With that said, the hope sat on the bench to fall in. And he held his head with his hands on his forehead with a fiercely regrettable look.

"Ah... Um..."

That's it, I'm stuck in words. I don't know what to call you.

"I'm fine. endeavor to be able to return to his normal sister and brother. So..."

Having said that, Hope stopped the words once and after a few thoughts, he added, "I hope you don't hate me". In contrast, I nod in a small reply, "Yeah......"

Having decided that things would just get worse even if I were by his side any more, I decided to go back to the boarding house on the school grounds first. As I left the park and waited for the signal, somehow my hopes followed me screaming "Wait, Thousand Cranes".

"You're not dressed like that, you're cold, are you?

My hopes are decent. He wrapped a muffler around my neck. When you said it was December, you thought it was going to be cold when you saw me just weaving a coat over a thin room outfit.

Even though I was forced to cut my feathers, I said something so terrible that I refused. As always, you worry about me...

"But there's hope..."

When I gave it back, my hopes said, "Don't worry about me because I'm fine," and I put my hands on my head with a pong. "I regret being treated like a child," on the other hand, I always felt safe doing this for a long time.

"... sorry, thanks. You're back."

The signal turned blue. I wave back to my small, waving hopes and continue down the crosswalk.

Secondly, I noticed the presence of a car coming this way at a high speed. The brake broke, drove asleep... or it could be a seizure. It was only speculation because the driver's situation was not known, but it seemed unusual anyway.

"What...?

But the hour is already late. The car was already approaching right there. I stand in the middle of a crosswalk unexpectedly. If you judge right away and move, maybe you'll make it just in time.

And yet somehow my body doesn't move. I thought the moment of imminent death was surprisingly immovable...

"Idiot! What are you doing!

Looking at me, unable to move with solidification, my hopes ran over.

I guess he decided he couldn't make it anymore. He held me in his arms and took such a position as to protect me from a slight increase in my survival rate. But... somehow, I didn't feel like I could help either.

─ ─ I'm sorry, look. I've never relied on you, but you've annoyed me to the very end.

Hope shook my hand as the car crashed into us. In response, I shake his hand back hard, too.

Though I can't afford to exchange words, the warmth of the hand of hope soothed my fear. And he said, "It's okay. I won't let you die alone," he seemed to me.

Oh... we were together when we were born, but we're together when we die. I wonder if it's just the twins and the fate community. But now you don't miss me.

I guess the only remnant of my heart is that I rejected the hope that you had the courage to say "I like it" in that way. I really regret that right now.

I'm sure it bothered you a lot. Hold it all by yourself, it would have been painful.

I couldn't even notice the pieces of heartache. If I can truly be reborn, I want to see him again in the next life. And now I want to live with you so you won't regret it.

The car that came this way at a high speed jumped us relentlessly.

At the same time as the tremendous shock, my body flourished into the universe, and I was realized that I could no longer help. The scenery around you, it looks like slow motion.

But... we never let go of each other.

─ ─ Hey, look. Thank you for holding hands until the very last moment.