Chapter 69
When Ryosaku returned home, he suppressed his excitement and first took a deep breath in front of the front door.
After finishing his light dinner, he took a leisurely bath, thinking of Setsu-san from earlier...and felt uneasy about one thing.
That is one point that Teacher Yoshiko Suzuki herself mentioned in the content of her "final message" that she had previously given to Ryosaku.
He remembered that there was something worrisome about this, and compared it to Setsu-san's attitude.
In the letter, Teacher Yoshiko wrote that Mieko's mother, Tokiko, and her older sister, Kaori, were likely to hate Ryosaku.
Kaori reports to Tokiko that Ryosaku is responsible for Mieko's sudden refusal to go to school during her last important days at K Elementary School, although the days were short. It was a situation that Setsu-san was also aware of.
Nevertheless, what exactly was the point of Setsu-san's good response to Ryosaku earlier?
If you think about it, it's a strange story.
Even though they lived together under the same roof in a house that could not be called spacious, it seemed to Ryosaku that it was extremely unnatural that Setsu-san didn't know how it happened.
However, more than three years have already passed since that sinful incident...that sinful incident in which Ryosaku coldly pushed Mieko away, who had no fault or sin.
...Even Ryosaku himself, who was a party to the incident, was about to forget about it.
Ryosaku is none other than the person who put her beloved granddaughter into an unfortunate situation.
However, He wondered if Setsu-san, who had been busy with moving and a new life in the big city of K City, could accurately remember the name of one boy... Ryosaku thought about it.
However, it is an unmistakable fact that Setsu-san gave Ryosaku the precious photo of Mieko.
...A photo of Mieko from when she was little, which doesn't really exist in her family anymore.
But it is true that Setsu-san gave him a precious photo of Mieko.
Mieko was on good terms with Ryosaku at that time...
(I'm sure... Setsu-san has forgiven me. Otherwise, she wouldn't have given me such an important photo...!)
Ryosaku made that decision, returned to his room, and slowly and carefully took out Mieko's photo from the envelope he had received.
