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Chapter 44 - Chapter 44 – Respects

Arriving at the cemetery, they continued on to meet up with Arisa and Saki, who were also wearing black, much to Kyo's criticism.

Seeing this little argument, Masayuki, Emiko, and Handa nervously smiled.

Then, Arisa looked at Masayuki's clothes, and commented, "Dang, your clothes looked so neat and sick."

"Oh, you think so?" Masayuki asked back. "I also wear a necktie."

"Yes, it was," Arisa responded back.

"Thanks."

Handa only had a simple black, long sleeved, collared polo shirt with buttons and black pants and shoes with shoelaces, while Emiko had a black and dark grey blouse and black skirt and pink shoes.

Not long after, they went to Kyoko's grave, seeing how clean it was thanks to Tohru's grandfather.

"Yes, he did," Masayuki revealed to them.

"I see," Handa responded.

Then, Arisa explained to them about Kyoko's backstory as a delinquent.

Tohru, Kyo, Yuki, and Handa get it now, while Masayuki and Emiko already knew that from their father Pablo.

So, most of them put flowers in front of Kyoko's gravestone, and Tohru, Masayuki, and Emiko began praying for her soul, although Masayuki was culturally and morally different from the average Japanese due to his cultural heritage. He was pretending to pray for his dead aunt for the sake of respect. Handa and Yuki, alongside Arisa and Saki, soon joined in, too, while Kyo didn't.

Then, later on, they had a picnic in the cemetery despite Kyo's warning that a priest might catch them doing it.

While Arisa argue back, Masayuki and Emiko get their own food, which consisted of Filipino-style fried pork, rice cakes, and steamed rice. They had woken up early to make them.

Masayuki then said to them, "You two, want some?"

Arisa and Kyo then looked at him, before looking at his food.

"Wow, is this pork?" Arisa asked.

"Why would you bring a fatty food?" Kyo demanded an explanation.

"Well, me and Emiko-chan loved eating it," Masayuki explained in response, "so I was thinking about making them and share it with you guys."

"Wow, that looks delicious," Tohru commented delightfully.

"Yes, this is Filipino-style fried pork," Masayuki responded back.

And so, they all eat up.

Later on, Masayuki overheard Kyo and Saki's little chat, and he wondered, "What are they talking about?"

Then, he turned to his right side, only to see that his older half-siblings are also at the cemetery giving their deceased biological father flowers but no incense sticks, indicating that they never truly moved on his death and demise.

And then, they began to "speak" to their dead father on how he left them and their mother so early, including complaining on how he refused to pay for treatment on his sickness.

Seeing and hearing this, Masayuki became disappointed, and thought, "Man, they didn't burn incense sticks for their dead biological father? They never truly moved on."

He then pulled out his notepad and ballpoint pen and jotted down those thoughts immediately, before writing conclusions and key takeaways from those thoughts.

It is revealed that Tohru's other cousins still loved their deceased biological father, and never truly moved on in life.