Yumi received the letter.
When it was first handed to her, she hadn't even glanced at it properly. She simply kept it beside her, untouched, as if the very paper might burn her fingers if she dared open it.
She wasn't part of that family anymore. No—she had never truly been part of it to begin with. To her, the Nagano Family was nothing but a cruel shadow. For a letter to come from them now… it felt like an insult and a twisted joke. Just the sight of the seal made her chest tighten. It was because of that family that her beloved mother had lost her life.
So no matter what the letter contained on it and no matter how important the message might be, there was no world where Yumi could allow herself to read it. Reading words from the family who had killed her mother—that was unforgivable. That was something she couldn't even imagine doing.
And yet…
