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Bro is the trenches of denial and he will be till they're like 80 or something
They're gonna be bickering at the retirement home and ilic's just gonna be like "sigh.... He's so weak now.... I can't just leave him.... Even if I keep fighting with him and it Sucks...." (They bicker over the smallest things also the duke is a-okay without him physically )
At this point, it's obvious that Ilic wants to be there. Otherwise, he would have killed himself a long time ago.