Only one can wear this hide; a fact which Vexen will defy.
Yet still the method's just the same,
That much the man shall clarify.
Breeding unsought by this calf, but does the farmer ever ask?
Coercion shapes this shadow child,
And all the violence made his task.
Leather isn't quite the same, although our Vexen could compare
In cruelty and cool disregard
Toward both boy and mirrored spare.
Only one can wear this hide; the Replica did thus decide.
Though Riku would have shared the part—
we two hearts could walk side by side
—his suffering would ne'er subside.
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