Haruki wanted them to suffer for their crimes far from him to protect his family. Their punishment was inevitable, he just wondered how inhumane their punishments would be.
***
More days than he wanted passed, all too fast, without seeing Haruki. Haruki told him he would invite him, but he didn't.
Hiroshi was busy at the hospital; no, he made himself busy helping his colleagues do their work with the excuse that he was free, and they could go ahead with what they hoped to do.
By night time, he is too tired to think about anything else and goes to bed as soon as he takes his bath at home. At work, he was too busy to bother with anything else, and he could properly focus his mind on the work he had. 5
But at home, with more free time and less stress, he would stare at the phone for hours contemplating whether to send a message to Haruki or not.
