"Yakumo, how are you?"
After Inner Demon Ido vanished, Kurama Yakumo remained silent, making Kurenai Yuhi somewhat anxious. She thought Kurama Yakumo was still being affected by Inner Demon Ido.
However, Kurama Yakumo's bright smile immediately put Kurenai Yuhi's worries to rest.
"Teacher Kurenai, don't worry. I'm fine now. I just want to firmly remember the mistakes I made in the past, as well as the people who cared about me, like you."
At that moment, Kurama Yakumo had truly grown.
Kurenai Yuhi, who knew Kurama Yakumo well, was absolutely certain of that.
After all, the old Kurama Yakumo would never have said something like that.
To be honest, those painful memories had nearly caused Kurama Yakumo to lose herself.
Fortunately, she had ultimately endured them.
Not only that, she had turned those painful memories into lessons to warn herself.
Thinking about it, the choices her parents and Teacher Kurenai had made back then really had been for her own good.
If she had been a little braver back then and taken the initiative to tell her parents and Teacher Kurenai how she truly felt—that she wanted to continue attending school—
Then perhaps Inner Demon Ido would never have been born, and none of those tragedies would have happened.
But instead, she had shut herself off, no longer able to listen to anyone.
Rather than saying that her parents and Teacher Kurenai had made the decision for her, it was more accurate to say that she had been too timid to voice her true thoughts.
Therefore, Kurama Yakumo believed that the person responsible for everything that had happened today was still herself!
In Soji's view, though, it all came down to a lack of communication between both sides.
As Jiraiya would put it, they needed to build a world where