... To be honest, I do like doing chores. It makes me feel as if--

[He has a home? He's earning his place here? Those are both sentiments, he reflects, that don't suit the man whose home this technically is. And yet, he can't quite shake them.

It may be that he was better suited to being a shinki, if it weren't for the problem of his letting his own regrets slowly destroy him.]

As if I'm accomplishing something.

Although I suppose I could always take up knitting again.