[It's still baffling to Kuro. He knows humans and vampires co-existing is possible, it's one of the things Mahiru genuinely believes in after all, and Kuro wanted to believe in the possibility. But so openly? Publically?]

...Back home, being so honest about all that is... well, it gets people hurt. Even the most powerful of vampires aren't... this open about it.

[Even lily, the kindest of all of his siblings, the one who blended in the best... he'd only managed to do so because he'd been smart about it. Found a powerful human family to protect, and had their protection in turn for himself and all his subclass.] S'not what I'm used to.