Sakayanagi Arisu's Two Daughters Years Later: Eldest Daughter Sakayanagi Misaki, Younger Daughter Sakayanagi Miwa

Inside the operating room.

Akasaka undid the collar of Sakayanagi Arisu's clothes.

Don't get the wrong idea—it wasn't that kind of thing. The surgery required the clothes over her chest to be opened up and exposed.

Sakayanagi Arisu had also been put under general anesthesia. She lay unconscious on the operating table.

Looking at Sakayanagi Arisu's delicate little face, Akasaka could not help feeling fortunate. Good thing he had taken this surgery. Otherwise, someone else might have seen all of Sakayanagi Arisu's body.

Though her figure was utterly unremarkable, Akasaka would not allow anyone to lay a hand on her—not even a single strand of her hair.

Akasaka stroked Sakayanagi Arisu's porcelain-doll face, gently pinched it, then stroked it again. Once he had had his fill, he started the surgery without another word.

After all, Arisu was not usually this obedient.

It was rare to see her sleeping like a sleeping beauty, and Akasaka could not resist pinching her cheeks.

Before long.

The red light outside the operating room gradually went out, signifying that the surgery was basically complete.

Akasaka removed his medical gloves and withdrew from the battlefield. He pushed the unconscious Sakayanagi Arisu out, and Sakayanagi Narumori, who had been pacing anxiously back and forth outside, finally breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing his daughter emerge from the operating room.

When he had first received word that Arisu's heart disease could be cured, he had thought Akasaka was messing with him. He had not expected it to be true.

He had not even wanted to work. Without so much as asking for leave, he had rushed over without stopping.

Sakayanagi Narumori hurried over, looked at Arisu lying peacefully on the bed, and asked, "How is she? She's all right now, isn't she?"

Akasaka said, "Don't worry. She's