#whereas “ano hito” is the typical non-gendered way to refer to a third person without either of those connotations

[alectoperdita]

WIP Snippet Sunday

More stuff from Mob, but from a future chapter either 7 or 8. Finally getting some Jou POV though.

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"Look, they're not in this life. They're normal," sighed Katsuya without removing the towel from his face.

"You mean they don't know you're..."

"Nah, they know. The amazing part is they don't care. But I don't wanna cause trouble for 'em. They have a white-collar job and everything. Perfectly respectable work."

If you didn't count whatever legal advising was done on Yoshimori's behalf, but hey, the law guaranteed everyone a right to trial and counsel. But Katsuya knew Seto had plenty of other clients. As he told him once, his specialty was actually in corporate governance.

"So why are they with you?" joked Kazuki.

"I'm wondering the same thing, kid," he mumbled under his breath.

Despite Seto's assurance that he wasn't "slumming it," the divide between their education and social class continued to make Katsuya antsy. When they were together, when Seto smiled and laughed for him, Katsuya could put it out of his mind for the time. But when they were apart like now? No matter how he looked at it, he couldn't measure up to Seto's standard.