"Do you not need me to accompany you, Midori-chan?" Minato asked again.
He did not feel safe letting Midori meet Kiyoshi alone, especially now that the man was afflicted with memory loss.
"He won't do anything to me, Onii-chan," Midori said with a smile. Then she held up a watermelon at her chest level. "If he dares to try anything, I will smash this on his head."
"..."
Minato cleared his throat awkwardly.
"Try not to kill him, Midori-chan. You do not want to give birth in prison."
The siblings exchanged waves of laughter before Midori shooed her second eldest brother away.
"Go now," she said.
"I will be fine, I promise."
Minato left, not without looking back several times to make sure that Midori did not change her mind.
Midori waited until Minato disappeared from the floor before she gathered all the courage in her body and knocked at the door.
"Enter," Kiyoshi's voice, calm and steady, rang out from inside.
