"Let's cut the crap. I can help you, but can you let it go?"
"..."
"Come on, don't look like it's impossible. I've looked into your father's condition. For ordinary people, it can't be cured, but to me, it's nothing much. It all depends on your answer."
"I want Norihisa Takasugi to personally apologize to my father."
Jiu Ming shrugged. "That's something you should be telling your student. But honestly, as a teacher, wanting to heap your desire for revenge onto a student is pretty derelict of you."
"What would you know about how I feel?!" Azusa Mayama turned her head away and replied guiltily, "If I could... Hmph, wasn't Norihisa Takasugi just as derelict? He's a police officer, yet he never uncovered the truth."
"You're both cut from the same cloth. I just want to ask—what do you plan to do afterward?"
A lost look flashed through Azusa Mayama's eyes, but it quickly faded. "If you can heal my father, then I can forgive Norihisa Takasugi. But that person... absolutely not!"
She must have meant the person who had beaten her father into a vegetative state, then successfully shirked responsibility.
Well, Jiu Ming really couldn't say much about that.
Since that person had done such a thing, they clearly weren't any good. Forget it. "Do as you please. So, tonight?"
"Alright!"
"It's settled." After they returned, Jiu Ming smiled at Yuzuki, who still wore a worried expression.
Hearing him say that, she let out a soft breath and relaxed considerably. "I don't know what you did, but it must have been something important..."
Glancing toward Akie, she quietly thanked Jiu Ming.
"Teacher?"
Akie Takasugi looked at her with a trace of expectation and spoke uncertainly.
"It's settled." Azusa Mayama narrowed her eyes slightly. With a faint sincerity in them,