[It's the earnestness of the answer that takes him by surprise, and the hard mask that his face was set into cracks. He'd like to think he knows himself the best of all, and the fact that his other self immediately denies it, with such vehement conviction, can only mean that he's telling the truth. There's no way he'd be able to lie like that with such confidence, even if this boy was, apparently, not the boy he was sharing memories with in the first place. But then, who was it? Were there really multiple versions of him out there?]

But--

[His mouth opens for a moment, then closes, unsure of where to go from here.]

Fai-- he had told me he remembered me being older, in his memories. And that I called Sakura 'the princess of his country'...

[And then, suddenly, it all clicks.

A country called Clow. This "Syaoran"'s earnest answer about protecting her. Neither he nor his own Sakura remembering a thing about royalty, despite all of that. Not to mention all those wounds...]

A-Are you-- are you Sakura's bodyguard?!