Chapter 55 - It's safe to watch this

"Professor, where did you pick her up?" Yuhara Kozue glares at Umezaki Yushiro. "You can't bring people to the farmhouse. There is a reason why hospitals exist."

Umezaki Yoshiro turns the page of the book. "What makes you think that this farmhouse is not a place for healing?"

"She's too fragile." Yuhara Kozue has only seen her from afar. Professor Umezaki has warned him not to make a sudden appearance.

"Is she opening up?"

She can't begin healing if she doesn't speak up.

Professor Umezaki ignores his questions. "Are you my student or not? It's your job to observe her."

"I am keeping a watch."

He has been observing her. The girl thinks that she is seventeen. She usually takes long walks with the red head man. At other times, she will play videogames with the redhead. She eats alone in her room. At night, he has seen her walking around aimlessly before going back to her room. He thought that she was sleepwalking, but that's not the case. Sometimes, she would sit in the garden and look at the moon. That's basically what's been going on for the last two days.

"Isn't it better if there is a woman here? She might trust a woman better than a man."

There is only that redhead, Professor Umezaki, and him staying at this farmhouse currently. Even a cook is a man. It's not good for a girl to live alone with several men.

"I thought that women make you nervous." Professor Umezaki simpers. "Yuhara, are you comfortable around women now? I should hire female servants now."

"No!" Yuhara shakes his head. "Professor, don't be cruel to me. I will not ask questions anymore. You can bring anyone you want. It's just that I feel nervous around her. I can't observe her well and make reports if I can't get closer to her. It was better if she was a man."

Yuhara Kozue is afraid of women. To cure his gynophobia, he decided to study psychology. He went to a boys school. Later, he enrolled at a college where the number of boys was significantly high compared to girls. It wasn't an easy journey to come this far. Professor Umezaki was the first one to notice his discomfort at the university.

"It's a good opportunity to get over your fear of women." Umezaki Yushiro closes the book and places it on the table. "In any case, keep an eye on her. Make sure that she doesn't watch TV or get her hands on the internet. She is a computer wiz. She is also smart. She might notice that something is wrong with the dates and figure out things. We want that to happen, but not when she is not prepared."

Yuhara makes a note to keep her away from electronics.

Kiyohira gazes at the picture of the woman taking a walk on the field of flowers. Ren has taken a picture of her secretly and sent it to him with a text that she is better than before. Kiyohira wonders if he will ever be able to stand in front of Rie again. He is scared that she would break again when she sees him.

She is punishing him this way. He can only see her from afar. He can't hold that hand again. It's been two days since he saw her.

Harumi runs into the room. "Master, please turn on the television."

The phone drops from his hand. Kiyohira frowns, but he decides to not mind Harumi's actions. He turns on the television.

[According to the statement by Takeuchi Seiji, Takeuchi Rie is adopted. She has always been a troublesome student and aware of the fact that she was adopted. She intentionally caused problems for the Kamiyama family to squeeze out money from them. She forced them to take responsibility for her and rebuild her old house by emotionally blackmailing the eldest son of the Kamiyama family. Takeuchi Seiji has removed her name from the family register for wronging an innocent family and ruining her adopted parents' name in public. She is no longer connected to the Kamiyama family and the Takeuchi family as a family member.]

"Harumi, where is Grandmother?"

***

Grandmother Kamiyama is surprised to hear the news from the television. Takeuchi Seiji has promised her that he would take care of Rie. She didn't expect him to go to the media straight after he arrived in the country. How much did this man hate his adopted daughter?

This isn't good. If Rie isn't Hitomi's daughter, the major hindrance between Kiyohira and Rie is gone. If she had known, she wouldn't have let Takeuchi Seiji reveal the secret to the world.

"Did you tell him to do this?"

Grandmother Kamiyama glances at Kiyohira. "You already knew?"

"Did you tell him to reveal it to the world like this?" Kiyohira looks at her with hate. "Rie doesn't know about it yet. She never came to the Kamiyama family willingly. She didn't ask me to rebuild her house. She didn't blackmail me."

She sighs. "I didn't ask that man to do this. I had no idea that she was adopted. I -"

Kiyohira runs out of the study room before she could finish. This boy is completely in love with that girl. She dials Chisa's father number to make another announcement.

***

Rie yawns like a lazy cat. She is bored out of her mind. There is no TV or a computer. She decides to go to the library inside the house. She has explored half of the house. The servants usually avoid her when she comes across them. She hasn't seen the brooding student in the house yet. She keeps walking until she hears a sound.

She pushes the door and sees a boy in the early twenties sitting in front of the TV. The boy throws the popcorn in his mouth, "If I hadn't seen her with my sight, I would have believed this fake news."

She looks at the TV screen. There is a picture of her father, her mother, and Kamiyama Shintaro. Though the sound is set on low, she can still read the words on the screen.

"She must be with that boy now." The brooding student mumbles to himself, "It's safe to watch this. I must gather more information on her."