When the storm arrives, would you be seen with me?
"Saito, you and I are--"
"--the same person."
After the fight, Enzan knew that he could not and would not complete the sentence. Not while they both lived in this world.
"I wasn't born here."
"...here meaning 'on this world.'"
It was strange to make that claim himself when he didn't even remember all the details of that other world. Still he knew he had been born there and owed his existence to it at the same time as he remembered that there was some reason he was able to take this all in stride that he also couldn't recall.
"My point is that since both of us know what the other actually is..."
Which one of them had been dead? Neither. None. There had been only two ghosts in that clearing, not four. Alive all along. How odd to think. He'd never considered it, never researched into that ghost before. Maybe if he had he'd have figured it out sooner.
"There's no body in that grave."
Which one? Either one. He was willing to wager that. He didn't know how or why he was so sure of it but he was certain of it. There was really only one explanation for it then.
"He's different. He's like Saito."
But what did that mean? Of course, he was so stupid and so nearsighted for not having seen it sooner. He'd never seen a ghost tethered that sharply or that long for a very good reason. They didn't exist. So few other un-purposed ghosts had ever had a solid form that he now knew it was none. The only other one he remembered was an obvious lie. If he went back to where it had supposedly been he wouldn't find a lick of evidence to support his memory.
"I know why I'm an 'anomalous reading' and I don't want you to."
He didn't, not really. He thought he had but he didn't. They had records on every living person born on this world, the two had hinted. He had latched onto the second part because he knew it to be true without ever touching the first. No, not 'every living person.' Every living mortal. That was it. Watch the phrasing there.
"I assume you can touch ghosts."
Yes, but had he ever? Really? Without the aid of chakra? And how would he have been able to touch Saito after shedding his physical connection to the spirit world if the latter were truly dead?
"Saito, you and I are--"
"We're the same person. But I can't ever tell you that."
Not until Saito knew what he meant.