Pagan certainly does understand. If his mother hadn't died, his father would have absolutely tried to have another son. A better son. And 'gotten rid' of Pagan in the process. He never wanted him to take over the Triad, third rate as it was at the time.

He swallows hard as he listens, keeping his own emotions pushed down.

Well. Sort of. He does reach over and lay his hand on Kiryu's. It's the most he's heard the other man talk and all of it is - so relatable.

"And you can't see either one of them."

It's not a question. And it's painful.