Chapter 129: A mistaken judgment
"So, she joined that legendary department?"
Inside the hospital's VIP ward, Mrs. Yukinoshita put a peeled but slightly oxidized piece of apple into her mouth and said, her expression cool:
"You didn't tell Yukino to choose Hoshikagi Shrine?"
"I'm sorry, Mom."
Yukinoshita Haruno stood beside Mrs. Yukinoshita with her head lowered, like a naughty child being disciplined.
"Hoshikagi Shrine has been a friend of the Yukinoshita Family for generations. Only they can guarantee Yukino's absolute safety. You shouldn't be so immature, Haruno."
Hearing her mother's reprimand, Yukinoshita Haruno kept her head down without saying a word or looking for excuses. She simply stood there silently with her head lowered.
Seeing Haruno's "silent protest," Mrs. Yukinoshita felt, on the one hand, that her eldest daughter's nature had not yet been worn away by her upbringing, and that she needed further discipline.
On the other hand, she felt that her eldest daughter was very much like herself, because she had once protested her father's discipline in the same way.
Mrs. Yukinoshita paid no further attention to her eldest daughter's "resistance" and continued on her own:
"It was indeed my mistake not to involve Yukino in our social dealings with Hoshikagi Shrine, leading her to make a mistaken judgment."
"But that isn't her responsibility either. Miyuki managed to keep even me in the dark for nearly forty years. It's only natural that Yukino would misjudge things."
Anyone who discovered that her close friend was actually someone with a superpower who could "summon wind and rain," and that her family had passed down superpowers for generations, would be bewildered.
Although her judgment of a longtime friend convinced Mrs. Yukinoshita that Hoshikagi Shrine would not harm her daughter, being kept in the dark still displeased her considerably.
Of course, she