"Have some tea. We can talk while we drink."
Hoshino spoke calmly, as though she possessed a reassuring magic. But the Wei couple was already emotional, and Madam Fumizuki had just gotten off a motorcycle traveling two hundred kilometers per hour. It was not so easy for her to calm down.
"I roughly understand the situation. No matter what, I bear an inescapable responsibility."
Hoshino was neither servile nor overbearing, taking all the responsibility onto her own shoulders. That did not ease their concerns, though. After all, Wei Yenwu had always regarded Ch'en as his heir.
"The important thing is not whose responsibility it is, but how to solve it. I trust Miss Yae Sakura very much. I believe you have a way."
Wei Yenwu sat down. The couple had completed a shift in roles. Madam Fumizuki merely sat there with her tea in hand and said nothing, leaving matters at the negotiating table to Wei Yenwu, the ruler of Lungmen.
A family could not have two voices. Even if it did, it could not let others discover them.
Wei Yenwu had said those sensible words. He claimed he had heard them in a movie, and Madam Fumizuki strongly agreed, believing them to be the best summary of how a family should speak.
"Of course I do."
Hoshino held her teacup. "Little Ch'en is fundamentally a warmhearted person. She is just a little too stubborn. She already never listened to reason, and now that something has gone wrong with her training and she has gone mad, she listens to others even less."
"Mr. Wei, you have been observing her. I invited many people, but none of them could wake her up. You were no exception."
"Who exactly did you invite?"
Wei Yenwu had also been observing Ch'en, viewing her as