So, in other words... they'd been there about the same length of time...? Which meant that they couldn't have met before at all. Not here. Just what did that mean? Had he been jumping to conclusions too fast? .... No, it ... couldn't have been anything normal, the way it was phrased. 'They hadn't met yet.' It could almost sound like they were acquaintances who hadn't been formally introduced yet, but in that case, you'd just say that and not put it on such vague terms. This had a totally different feel to it, like they were supposed to have met and something had prevented that. Or had he been slowly getting so used to screwed up things that he was starting to tear apart even things he shouldn't?
... No, it wasn't it in his head. This really was getting seriously messed up. "Ushiromiya ... Lion ...?" He repeated the name slowly, but it didn't feel quite natural. It couldn't have been a mistake. Ushiromiya wasn't exactly a common name. They'd once been much bigger, but by the time Grandfather had become the head, the branch families were already slowly dying off. ... No, it couldn't have been that simple even they still existed, because even in that case, only the main family would be permitted on the island. But....
He frowned, trying to find the right words, but he'd never been very good at treading lightly in these kinds of situations. "It's not like I'm saying you're lying, exactly, but... I've never heard a name that in my family at all."
Then, what? What the hell did this mean? Was he seriously supposed to believe he'd had some hidden relative he'd never even knew existed at all? Maybe it was possible, but not in such an obvious way. .... There was no way someone else lived in that mansion and he'd never even heard about it, right...?
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... No, it wasn't it in his head. This really was getting seriously messed up. "Ushiromiya ... Lion ...?" He repeated the name slowly, but it didn't feel quite natural. It couldn't have been a mistake. Ushiromiya wasn't exactly a common name. They'd once been much bigger, but by the time Grandfather had become the head, the branch families were already slowly dying off. ... No, it couldn't have been that simple even they still existed, because even in that case, only the main family would be permitted on the island. But....
He frowned, trying to find the right words, but he'd never been very good at treading lightly in these kinds of situations. "It's not like I'm saying you're lying, exactly, but... I've never heard a name that in my family at all."
Then, what? What the hell did this mean? Was he seriously supposed to believe he'd had some hidden relative he'd never even knew existed at all? Maybe it was possible, but not in such an obvious way. .... There was no way someone else lived in that mansion and he'd never even heard about it, right...?