"I'll do it."
While Enji Koma and Renji Yomo were still looking bewildered beside her, Touka Kirishima said with a serious expression:
"Don't you want a test subject? Then let me do it."
"Touka?" Enji Koma's expression darkened, and he hurriedly shot Renji Yomo a look.
"Touka, you?!" Hearing his niece's words, Renji Yomo's expression changed at once.
But when Renji Yomo met Touka Kirishima's determined gaze, he opened his mouth, then realized he had no way to dissuade her.
His niece had been strong-willed since childhood. Once she made up her mind, not even a team of horses could drag her back.
At least, he, her uncle, could not.
Still, it was not as though there was no one who could persuade Touka Kirishima... At that thought, Renji Yomo turned his gaze toward Yoshimura.
Seeing this, Yoshimura sighed and started to dissuade her:
"Touka."
But Yoshimura had barely begun when Touka Kirishima, seated on a barstool, replied:
"Manager, don't say anything. I've had enough of being so helpless."
Touka Kirishima clenched her fists, took a deep breath, and said earnestly:
"At least, just this once, let me be selfish."
Seeing Touka Kirishima grit her teeth and stand firm, Yoshimura froze.
At that moment, he seemed to see the days over a decade ago when he had secretly watched his daughter, Eto Yoshimura, going about her life.
Back then, his daughter, who had been lonely and helpless since childhood, had also gritted her teeth like this as she tried cooking human food to eat.
That stubborn look is exactly like Eto's...
With that thought, Yoshimura lost the courage to dissuade her. He merely sighed and said nothing more.
"This..." Seeing that even the manager had failed to change Touka Kirishima's mind, Renji Yomo was stunned as well.
He still wanted