"Mom, are you truly okay?" Kinoshita Iori whispers, standing in the corner with her phone glued to her ear. "Me getting married to Takeshi?"
[MARRY HIM OR I WILL DISOWN YOU!]
Iori flinches when she hears her mother's yell. Is she truly her mother? Sometimes, it feels like they picked her up from a garbage bin.
[HE ALREADY ASKED FOR OUR BLESSING. DO YOU WANT TO END UP LIKE CHIYO? YOU ARE ALREADY TWENTY-SIX. WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE --]
She hangs up the call. Yes, she knows what her mother was doing when she was her age. It's been dictated to her for more than a thousand times.
Sighing, she turns around. Takeshi has gone outside of the building to bring a witness inside. She leans against the wall and ponders if it's the right thing to do. She said yes because she was caught in the moment. But marriage? So suddenly? Why are her parents okay with this?
Should she run away?
"Iori."
