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“But I what?” Toichi asked, the smile on his face not leaving at all when Kaito pinched his face. The adult understood the male’s action very well. After being quiet for a minute or two his facial expression turned a bit more serious, his eyebrows furrowed. "I am not aware of the things you’ve been through ever since what happend but… I apologize for everything.“ It wouldn’t surprise him if Kaito hated him– but the least he could do was apologize.

The magician drew his hand back, a touch shakily.

That… that was real skin. Not a mask, no prosthetics, even the pencil mustache looked too real and attached to be fake… Not to mention that voice… Guess he should be glad for shock, because the teen felt so many various emotions right now, they would have overwhelmed him. However, two that were coming forward were confusion and anger…

“I thought you were dead!” He spat, fingers that had touched the other’s face clenching into a fist that fell to his side, still trembling. A faint happiness at seeing, really seeing his father again might be there as well, but it lost out to the sheer hurt and betrayal cutting him right now.

“It’s been eight. Years. Where have you been!? Why are you back now? Even if you haven’t been in touch here, Kid made international news, how could you not-?”

Kaito’s voice started to get affected as well and he got choked up. An apology? That was all he had to say for everything the teen’s had to go through? He’s nearly been killed on multiple occasions, had hell to deal with with robots and classmates and police, lying to everyone he cared about, been responsible for someone’s death…

Like hell would an apology after showing up out of the blue would be enough to cover for all of that.