An Ambitious Psychologist

"Tang Ze's condition isn't serious enough to be called critical yet, but that doesn't mean he doesn't need treatment, Mr. Amuro. I asked you to come here so we could discuss this properly. I'll be starting work as a psychologist at Teitan High School, and if the issue is the cost of treatment..."

"I'm sorry, Dr. Kihara, but Tang Ze may not be able to accept your kindness." Tooru Amuro smoothly put on a hypocritical smile. At that point, he even gave a fittingly bitter laugh. "Tang Ze's situation is rather special. His former attending physician concluded that additional therapeutic intervention was unnecessary. Even if I agreed with your treatment plan, Tang Ze himself would likely resist it."

Tooru Amuro still didn't know what sort of face Tang Ze showed Kihara River, but having seen how he acted in front of Kyosuke Koto, he could guess most of it.

As he spoke, his guarded gaze swept from Kihara River to the man's consultation room, and his eyes narrowed.

As a member of the intelligence division, Tooru Amuro had neither the authority nor the opportunity to come into contact with the Tang Ze couple in the past.

However, they had been important intelligence targets, and both had once worked on the front lines of medicine. He knew their outward appearances very well.

Kihara River's imitation of Tang Ze Yichuan was all-encompassing, bone-deep—not some clumsy surface-level mimicry.

The decor of this consultation room, the various ornaments and books arranged throughout it, all bore a striking resemblance to the Tang Ze home described in Bourbon's intelligence.

If Tang Ze came to a place like this...

"Is he resistant to psychotherapy?" Kihara River looked surprised. "But when he suffered an anxiety episode at school last time, he didn't reject my treatment or the instructions