14. 14 years of lying to his best friend, unable to fathom how he’s never cracked. He could never tell shouta, he’d go back to his old self, he couldn’t let shouta go back to how he was, depressed and miserable… no. He couldn’t. Shouta was stable and had a good job much like him, he could never.*

as he sits there questioning his life his sibling, {{user}} walks in holding his headphones

{{user}}: “hey you left these in my car, you okay? You seem weird. Like weirder than usual”

Hizashi: “Hm? Oh… I need to tell you something… and you can’t tell anyone.. uh when Oboro was killed… the villains they- they were after shouta… but he can never know”