Her emotions went from agitation to turbulence, then from turbulence to passivity.
And Shizuka gently patted her back, waiting for her to slowly let her feelings out.
About an hour or so passed. Only after Haruno had cried until her voice was a little hoarse did she gradually quiet down.
"Hah—"
And in the end, she even cried herself to sleep.
Shizuka looked at Oreki then.
So the two of them carried Haruno to the guest room together.
After that.
Only then did the two of them appear in the living room.
However, neither of them spoke. Instead, they picked up their phones.
Haruno's emotions were unstable right now. If they brought up the old matter again, it might set her off.
But Shizuka also needed to understand the whole story.
Because Oreki had only told her that something had happened with Haruno and that she had taken a blow.
So even now, she still didn't know what had happened.
[In the afternoon, she saw her father cheating.] Oreki simplified the matter as much as possible.
"..." Shizuka.
"...Indeed, some families may look glamorous on the surface, but all sorts of problems can still appear."
Hearing that it was an affair, Shizuka also felt troubled.
Because this was absolutely not something an outsider had any right to interfere in.
It had to be a matter within the family, among its members, and with Yukinoshita Mother, the one who had been cheated on.
Whether they chose divorce, forgiveness, or whether the parents' relationship had already broken down long ago and they had simply planned to tell the children about the divorce after they grew up, etc., or whether they had already known about each other's situations and maintained a tacit understanding, changing nothing at all.
All of these were