"You don't have to risk your life over a mere intuition! Didn't Lord Yahiko say that technology will keep advancing?"
"Maybe in a few years, or even just a few months, there'll be more stable and successful technology. Then our family can return to how things used to be. Wouldn't that be wonderful?"
Hyuga Gen smiled and tucked his wife's hair behind her ear. "But even then, someone will still have to make sacrifices, won't they?"
"If everyone thinks that way, thinking things will stabilize in a few months and nobody will have to die, then no one will go. Who will conduct experiments for Lord Amado?"
"How will this technology advance, then?"
Hyuga Gen smiled. Seeing it, his wife was momentarily dazed, as if she had returned to that morning when her husband had gone off on a mission.
She had told her husband that she had heard the mission was dangerous and asked whether he could turn it down for her and their son.
That day, her husband had worn the same smile as he softly told her,
"Some things simply have to be done by someone."
His wife froze. She no longer knew what words she could use to persuade her husband.
She even felt she had no grounds to argue at all.
Her husband was that kind of person. He clearly did not possess any extraordinary abilities, yet he had an immensely strong spirit of dedication.
He often said, "The village raised me, so naturally I must repay the village in my own way."
She thought such a husband was incredibly handsome.
"Since... this is your decision, then I'll support you."
"Hano... you've had it hard all these years."
His wife shook her head. "We're a family. Why talk about whether it's been hard? No matter