"Ah~! Sorry. Eriri had known about this for years, hadn't she?" As the culprit who had personally torn apart the disguise and brazenly laid humanity's dark side before someone else's child, Sogo Doma offered a timely apology.
"Years ago..." Sayuri Sawamura froze. She suddenly recalled certain things—for instance, one day when she returned home and, as usual, teased Eriri about Tomoya Aki, Eriri had shown clear irritation. At the time, she had thought Eriri had gotten into another argument with him. Thinking of her daughter's awkward personality...
Sayuri Sawamura had even considered whether she ought to do something to reconcile the two of them. But from that day onward, Eriri had refused to receive any news whatsoever about Tomoya Aki, leaving Sayuri Sawamura with no way to intervene. She had even felt sorry about it, after all—she could be said to have watched Tomoya Aki grow up...
Now that she thought about it, that must have been when Eriri had first learned the truth.
"Yes, years ago. Back then, I was wondering how the Sawamura family would deal with the Akis. I never expected you'd simply ignore them. Honestly, I rather admired the Sawamura family's patience..." As Sayuri Sawamura pondered this, Sogo Doma picked up the black tea before him and gently swirled it.
"What I found even harder to imagine was that when I wanted to drive that cockroach away, the Sawamura family was actually prepared to protect him. At the time, I was thinking, Sister Sawamura, is your family's tradition all about enduring and yielding? But it seems now that Sister Sawamura simply didn't know about any of this..."
Sayuri Sawamura: #^_^
What did he mean, a family of endurance and yielding? Was he calling her entire family turtles? Still, protecting someone even after being plotted against—if that