53 I am your girlfriend now?

ie crosses her arms. "i don't want to talk to anyone who fixes minds. my mind isn't broken or wronged. i don't need to be fixed. ren, why did you bring this person here? i hate doctors like him."

"i-i..." ren is tongue-tied. he didn't think that they would be caught the moment she saw the doctor. rie is too experienced when it came to seeing psychiatrists.

"say, did my grandfather make you promise something before he died?" rie gets closer to dr. umezaki and whispers, "you are only wasting your time. there is nothing wrong with me. i am fine."

umezaki yushiro laughs loudly. "young woman, you are an interesting one. do i look like a doctor?"

she nods.

"you are right about that." he laughs again. "young woman, i didn't meet your grandfather. i don't know what you are talking about, but you don't look mentally ill to me. you are as healthy as my nephew here."

she widens her eyes. "ren, he is your uncle."

"i-i..." she will kill him after she gets her memories back. ren can imagine his state. "he is my uncle. remember i told you that we will be visiting my uncle's farmhouse after visiting the h island? he has a huge vegetable field. he asked me to help him on the field."

she looks at him with a dull expression. "what else did you plan? tell me right now."

"i don't know what you don't know," he says quickly. "we are going to his farmhouse today."

"i don't want to." she leans closer to ren, "i know that he's your uncle, but i dislike psychiatrists more than i love you. can i go back home?"

he whispers back, "i am sorry, but i promised him that i would bring my girlfriend with me."

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"i am your girlfriend now?" she chimes happily. "really?"

"yes." he hopes that she doesn't hate him for this after she remembers. "this is my reply to your confession. you are my girlfriend now."

dr. umezaki has told him not to hurt her.

"i will go to the farmhouse." she smiles coyly around him. ren blushes and looks away. rie chan is cute.

"alright." umezaki yushiro claps his hands. "let's go to the farmhouse. one of my students might join us at the farmhouse. don't be surprised if you see a brooding boy lurking around."

rie doesn't think much about it. they immediately leave for f city by road. rie falls asleep in the car.

***

grandmother kamiyama thunders at kiyohira. "you were gone for two days. you didn't pick up your phone once. is that how you are supposed to treat your elders?"

kiyohira listens and replies nothing. grandmother kamiyama scolds him a little more for being an irresponsible person. she has been worried about him. her grandson is going crazy for that girl. what if he decides to marry that girl?

"kiyohira, i told you that she isn't our responsibility. if she wants to leave, let her leave. her father will take care of her matters."

"when is he coming?" kiyohira breaks his silence. "i want to meet him."

"he will arrive the day after tomorrow." she observes her grandson. the sadness in his eyes reminds her of her son when kiyohira's mother died. "is that girl okay?"

"no."

"what happened to her?"

"i hurt her."

she inhales sharply. "let the girl go. she's still not in love with you. that's good for her. marry a good girl from a good family. you are the elder son. the entire kamiyama groups and this family depend on you. your wife should be someone who can share the weight of being a kamiyama with you. though kamiyama hitomi surpassed my expectations, her daughter is not anything like her. i have observed her when she was here. she isn't the right person for you. you can't marry your stepmother's daughter."

kiyohira looks at her solemnly. "even if she wasn't her daughter, you would have never accepted her. didn't you reject kamiyama hitomi and forced my father to marry my mother? when she reappeared in his life, you tried to oppose the marriage again. it was only after she was found pregnant when you let her marry your son."

she looks away from him. his words are correct. "it doesn't change the fact that hitomi married your father for his money. otherwise, she wouldn't leave her daughter behind. kiyohira, don't make any mistake like your father. what you think is love might be temporarily lust. the difference between the two of you is big. she didn't even go to university. can you show her to your friends and relatives? one thing doesn't change. she is still kamiyama hitomi's daughter and takeshi's half-sibling. if you marry her, how are you going to explain it to the world? it will be another scandal."

grandmother kamiyama could come up with 100 reasons why takeuchi rie was bad for kamiyama kiyohira. kiyohira wouldn't care about one.

"you don't have to worry. i won't marry her against your will." kiyohira tells her quietly, "that doesn't mean that i will marry someone else against my will. i will stay alone for the rest of my life. i can't imagine being with someone else."

"kiyohira!" grandmother kamiyama shouts in anger. "you will marry the girl i am going to choose for you. after her father comes back, i would make an engagement announcement."

kiyohira smiles lightly. is this what his father faced back then? the elders always try to control the younger one's life. he can't even choose his woman to marry. but then, even if grandmother agreed, could he marry rie? he has done something unforgivable to her. he can't forget the way she looked at him. he thought that being hated was fine as long as he can occupy that heart. he was wrong. when she kneeled and looked at him with fear and desperation, he felt like he was dying for a thousand times.

"you can make the announcement to the world. i won't stop you. don't forget that i have to be present at the wedding ceremony and it would be me who would sign the marriage certificate."

kiyohira walks away, leaving his frustrated grandmother behind.