[It may come as a surprise, but Hijikata is actually quite weak to anything resembling cognitive magic. So while he knows Kaeya's appearance and voice and the little quirks of his body language by now, the magic confuses his senses, and he isn't immediately sure who the handsomely dressed-up "stranger" is! He answers regardless, with an unusual openness... perhaps the gentle melancholia of this month's festivities has worn down his defences.]
You never feel alone that way. You're never the only person awake in the night.
[It's been years, back home, since he moved to Edo from the countryside, and even beforehand he'd been living with others since he joined Kondou's doujou, but he still remembers what it was like to wander alone under the moon and the stars and feel like the only person not sleeping soundly under the roof of a safe home.]
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You never feel alone that way. You're never the only person awake in the night.
[It's been years, back home, since he moved to Edo from the countryside, and even beforehand he'd been living with others since he joined Kondou's doujou, but he still remembers what it was like to wander alone under the moon and the stars and feel like the only person not sleeping soundly under the roof of a safe home.]