"On our bodies..."
The two girls murmured.
Then, as if suddenly realizing something, they turned to look at each other at the same time.
"You..."
Though she only managed to get one word out, the look on the other's face, together with the twins' natural understanding, made them suddenly realize.
So... she hadn't been the only one troubled, irritated, and miserable all this time?
"Huan Huan..."
"Lele..."
The two girls spoke in unison again.
Even in the midst of such shock, the twins couldn't help laughing at their somewhat "ill-timed" synchronicity.
"You go first."
As the older sister, and because she was naturally quiet, Dong Huan usually let her younger sister speak first whenever something came up.
She was also used to listening before sharing her own thoughts.
Dong Le pressed her lips together.
She didn't refuse.
But for a moment, she couldn't bring herself to speak.
Unusually, she hesitated over what she wanted to say.
Should she really tell her?
It wasn't anything pleasant.
Actually... she didn't have to tell her every single detail, did she?
"I..."
"I just feel like lately... I've become someone who isn't quite myself."
"Some of the thoughts I've had—I don't even understand how they got into my head."
"But the more I resist them, the more stubbornly they cling to me."
"After a while, I'm almost forgetting what I thought in the first place."
"I think this version of me is terrifying."
"I don't understand how I suddenly changed."
"What makes me even more uneasy is..."
"I realized... Huan Huan seemed to have changed the way she treated me, too."
"I thought I hadn't hidden my changes well enough, and she'd noticed something was wrong."
"I'm... so terrifying like this."
"It's only natural that Huan Huan would distance herself from