Father and Daughter

"Can you see clearly now what your daughter went through?! If that guy hadn't healed Ruti for some reason, the one you saw today would have been a corpse!"

Ban told Paul everything Ruti had gone through. Seeing the wounds on his daughter's body, everything in Paul's eyes changed at once. The nightmare he had suffered for so long had nearly come true.

After his family had been relocated, Paul had never stopped searching for his wife and other son. When he learned that the incident had even spread to the academy, he began searching for his daughter as well.

He had always fooled himself by telling himself that his daughter was a super genius, that she would be fine no matter where she went. Yet he constantly dreamed of his loved ones dying miserable deaths.

Angered by his own helplessness, he had said those things when he heard what his daughter said. Even now, he had only just realized that his daughter had nearly died.

"I..."

Paul did not know what to say. He wanted to apologize; he should not have said those things. But Ruti had already been pulled away by Ban.

"Wait!"

Paul had just reached out when Ban made his move. Perhaps this was the fate of those who possessed the Sharingan, especially those who awakened the Mangekyo for someone.

Ban was especially afraid of losing Ruti now. As long as it was to protect her, he would act no matter who the enemy was, even if that person was her father.

"Ban! Stop!"

Ruti had only just snapped out of her father's words when she saw the boy she liked pinning her father to the ground and beating him.

"Don't bully my dad!"

The moment Norn entered, she saw a man beating her father. She