The young woman had reached Riki, her hands on her knees, catching her breath after climbing the hill with great effort.

"Are you okay?" asked Riki.

The young woman finally stood up straight, then handed him her smartphone. She showed him a photo that Riki had never seen before. However, he knew for sure that it was him. Because it was her mother carrying Riki as a baby.

In addition, there was another woman next to her mother, along with two toddlers, a boy and a girl who looked alike.

"Is this you?" asked Riki, but he showed the photo to Sean instead of the young woman.

The young woman then realized Sean's presence, and she fell silent, feeling very familiar with Sean's face.

"I think it's me," Sean muttered.

"What do you mean? I'm sure he's my cousin, Riki! Not you," replied the woman.

Sean rolled his eyes in annoyance, "I'm talking about this toddler boy, and that's me." Sean's words made the woman even more confused.

"Oh, is this your twin we've been looking for, Sean? What a coincidence, meeting her here," said Travis, pointing at the girl's face. The girl, feeling annoyed, roughly pushed Travis's hand away.

"Keep your hands off me!"

"Sunny, we need to talk," said Sean.

The woman immediately turned to Sean. She furrowed her brow in confusion at Sean's words, who even knew her real name.

"My name is Selene now! I changed my name to get rid of bad luck."

Sean snorted, not believing that his twin had changed her name. No wonder Sean had such a hard time finding her.

"Whatever, but we need to talk, just the two of us," said Sean.

Selene nodded, "Okay! But who are you? Riki is my cousin, right, Riki?" The girl held Riki's arm tightly.

From the look on his face, Riki could tell that Selene was very happy just to have found her baby cousin, whom she hadn't seen in a long time.

Sean looked at Riki, as if asking him for an answer.

"That's right, look at this... the baby is me, and the one holding me is my mother. Then, the woman next to my mother, if I remember correctly, is my mother's sister. But... as far as I know, my aunt only has one daughter, and that should be her," replied Riki, then he looked down at Selene, who was smiling broadly.

Selene nodded enthusiastically, "That's right!"

"And you don't know who I am?" Sean asked.

Selene fell silent, putting on a dumb look.

"Who are you?"

"I'm the boy standing next to you, you idiot!"

"But my mother said you were gone, far away! That means you died, right?"

Sean stared in disbelief.

"I did go far away, with my father, who remarried a new woman. When I had money and a place to live, I tried to find you, you know? But you and mom weren't at the old house. I searched for information about you for quite a long time. Then, someone contacted me, saying that mom had died. So I went to that village, visited mom's grave, but I didn't know where you were. The people there said you had gone to the city to look for work. So I came back here to meet Riki, but it turns out you're here too," said Sean, with a hint of emotion. He just felt tired, sad, all his feelings mixed together.

"I work here... because I don't have any money or a place to live," muttered Selene.

Sean felt guilty after seeing Selene's tear-stained face.

Riki's clothes became the target for wiping Selene's tears.

"It's not good to talk here, you're becoming a spectacle," said Zeno. "It's better if we go down and talk about everything properly, okay?" he added.

"You guys go down, let us stay here, because it's very cool here," replied Aslan.

Inevitably, only Riki and Zeno went down with Sean and Selene.

Throughout the descent, which was much easier than the climb, they all remained silent.

Only Riki and Zeno exchanged glances, as both felt awkward about the situation.

When they arrived at the campervan, the opposite-sex twins sat facing each other in silence, without even looking at each other.

Riki sat nearby, a little far away, so as not to disturb them. Meanwhile, Zeno made drinks, coffee, using the coffee machine in the campervan.

"Talk to each other," Riki said finally, feeling very annoyed by the silence.

Neither of them made an attempt to speak.

Finally, Riki approached them and said,

"So... I'm your cousin, right? But what happened to your parents' marriage? It seems really messy, doesn't it?" Riki asked.

Sean finally sighed deeply and heavily, then replied, "Actually, I didn't know anything until I grew up. I thought my stepmother was my biological mother. But after thinking about it again, what biological mother would hate her son so much? As you know, Riki, I look weak and feminine, but I feel like I'm just a normal young man. I was bullied, both at school and at home. When I should have been getting support from my family, I was beaten at home. When I reported it to my father, he just kept quiet and let it all happen. Finally, after I graduated from high school, I tried to live on my own, with my own abilities. My life was very difficult, but I also often had good luck. Then, a year ago, my father fell seriously ill, and I had to go to the hospital. There, my father finally told me everything about my biological mother and my twin sister, Sunny. I tried hard to find them both. But it turned out that my mother had died and Sunny had changed his name. This is so ridiculous," said Sean.

"I didn't have an easy life either. A lot of things happened in my life. I even almost became an advertising model. I auditioned and worked hard for it. But what happened? Those rich people said that if I wanted to pass, I had to sell my body to them. I didn't even know anything about my twin brother. When I asked my mother about you, she always got angry. She said that you were living a good life, that you had gone far away... even until the end of her life, I knew nothing about you. But I still remember Riki, because he used to visit us in the village every few years. Although he hasn't visited for so long that I almost forgot about him,"

After that, the two of them were silent, lost in their own thoughts.

Zeno came to serve them drinks.

"Thank you, Zeno..." Sean muttered.

Zeno sat down between them.

"No wonder I felt familiar when I saw Selen, it turns out she's your twin, right, Sean?" asked Zeno.

"No, I was also surprised to see that we both really look alike," replied Sean.

"Not alike, you're too beautiful to be like me," Selene retorted.

Sean immediately turned to Selene, putting on a displeased face.

"What did you just say?"

"I said you're much more beautiful than me!"

"That's outrageous! I'm handsome."

"From any angle, you're beautiful!"

Riki and Zeno were very surprised to see such a significant change. How could they change so quickly, from being awkward with each other to having a heated argument?

"It seems like all twins are like this, huh?" Riki muttered in surprise.

"Eyy, of course not, there are other twins who get along very well, you know," replied Zeno.

"You and Aslan, Kaivan and Liz, and now Sean and Selene, none of them get along," said Riki.

Zeno fell silent upon hearing this, agreeing with Riki's statement, but at the same time feeling that he disagreed.

"But Aslan and I get along really well, just like Kaivan and Liz."

"Riki—"

Riki was startled when Selene suddenly grabbed his hand and held it tightly.

At that moment, Selene looked at Riki with a sad expression. Riki was very confused by the girl's sudden change in mood.

"Yes?"

Selene then grabbed Sean's hand too, holding it tightly.

"The three of us are siblings who no longer have parents. Let's live together and rely on each other," said Selene.

Riki furrowed his brow and asked, "Live together?"

Selene nodded enthusiastically, "Yeah! I'll be your big sister and take good care of you. You know... I'm a girl and I live alone, and it turns out my twin brother is just as pretty as me, so we'll both be easy get harassed or became the target for people to take advantage of, Riki!"

Sean let go of her hand in annoyance, but he also agreed with Selene. Especially the part about being "easily get harassed." It was a bitter truth.

Riki smiled broadly, "That's true. Since we're cousins, and since we both don't have parents, it's only natural that we rely on each other."

In Riki's mind, he imagined all the fun things that would happen if he lived with Sean and Selene. Especially because he could get rid of his uncle's family, who would surely attack him in the future.

Sean and Selene could be a good reason for that.

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