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Teruteru will never be able to forget that day.
The day he ate his own mother alive, the day she took her final breaths, the day when she said her last words, which haunted him to this day.
“I still love you, son.”
He still hears her voice in the morning, whenever he wakes up between Nekomaru and Akane. Whenever they say “I love you,” he hears his mother’s voice.
He hates himself for what he did. Yes, he was brainwashed, but he can never forgive himself for what he did.
Akane can’t forgive herself either.
For killing her siblings.
They were the reason why she worked so hard for a better life. And she killed them.
Neither of them can forgive themselves, but Nekomaru can.
He loves both of them.
Every morning, he wakes them up to cuddles and kisses, and every night, they fall asleep together.
It’s not much, but it’s how they live now.
They can never forgive themselves, but they can forgive each other and love each other.