The anxious violin master had no mind to leisurely drink tea and got straight to the point, "I apologize for disturbing you, Yusei-sama, but the matter is truly urgent. My student, Miyazono Kaori, has been diagnosed with the terminal illness ALS."
"After emergency treatment, she is currently much better, but it's an incurable disease. Right now, we can only suppress it, and there's no way to cure it. If it drags on further, total systemic failure is inevitable."
Yusei took a sip of coffee, put down the cup, and said, "So, why have you come to me?"
"Kaori... she said you mentioned this to her before, and said you learned it through fortune-telling." As she spoke, the master's face also showed an embarrassed expression.
In society, not many people believe in gods and ghosts nowadays. Fortune-telling falls into that category, and not many people believe in it these days.
Yusei shrugged, "That's right, I did say that. I did notice her health wasn't good, but that wasn't fortune-telling."
"Most importantly, I have no way to save her. I'm not a doctor. I'm very sorry."
Hearing Yusei's words, the master was somewhat stunned. But she was also an adult, not a child who understood nothing.
What Yusei said wasn't untrue.
Indeed, being able to identify her condition as serious at a glance... she had pinned that slim hope on this young master of the Shinomiya Family.
But now, thinking about it carefully, everyone is human. It's normal for human terminal illnesses to be difficult to solve.
"I understand. Thank you for your time."
The middle-aged female master stood up dejectedly, bowed politely, and took her leave.
Yusei nodded, watching her leave.
Her genuine concern for her student, who was not related by blood, was real. She had probably already decided to take the girl named Kaori as her successor, the one to inherit her legacy.
Unfortunately, the student she had nurtured for so long contracted a terminal illness. One can imagine how despairing she must feel.
However, Yusei was truly powerless in this matter. He had no need, nor any reason, to risk going to another world for that girl.
Judging by how Tohru was targeted, just a few squads from that world posed such a big threat, and they had things like [Holy Body]... it was clear the waters in that world were very deep.
A High Priest, that kind of existence, is a 'medical resource'. One would think they are heavily protected, right?
For him to go find a High Priest, whether to kidnap one or just get close, wouldn't be a wise choice.
Therefore, Yusei would absolutely not go to another world to do something so foolish.
Finishing the coffee in his hand, he looked at the young maid who was preparing to take the cup away. Yusei spoke up.
"Um, Maid-san. Could you ask the kitchen to prepare some breakfast for me? I didn't eat before coming here this morning."
"Of course. Please wait in the dining room, Yusei-sama. I will inform the kitchen immediately. May I ask what you would like to eat?"
"Anything is fine. A nutritious, balanced breakfast will do." Yusei smiled.
Soon, after eating a delicious breakfast at the Shinomiya Residence, Yusei did not go to school.
Since Kaguya had asked for leave on his behalf, shouldn't he make good use of this holiday?
Yusei planned to draw some manga today.
Although he still had some manuscript reserves, they would run out soon. It was better to draw a bunch more in one go and build up a good reserve for a while.
Arriving at the apartment he rented for Hina, Yusei found the tools in his studio were all prepared nicely, which surprised him.
"Hina, did you know I was coming today?"
Hina, however, scratched her head and smiled sheepishly, "I clean and tidy up every day."
"Is that so? Seeing you so diligent makes me want to give you a raise." Yusei smiled.
Hearing this, Hina quickly waved her hands, "What I have now is already enough! And I haven't really done much. If you raise my salary further, I'd feel uneasy."
"Don't say that. Besides, I actually have been thinking of giving you more work recently, so a raise would be appropriate."
"More work?" Hina looked at Yusei, puzzled.
"Yes. I'm planning to develop a game recently. The characters in it will need voice actors, meaning dubbing. I plan to have you voice one of the female characters."
"Eh? Voice acting? But... I don't know the first thing about it. I might mess things up," Hina said apologetically.
"It's fine. We're all newcomers, the game is new, and we're not in a hurry anyway. We can take it slow." Yusei smiled reassuringly.
"I see... Then I'd like to give it a try. If I can help you out that way, that would be great."
"Good, it's settled then. There's no rush for now. After the programming is more developed, I'll bring you the script to look at."
After giving his instructions, Yusei entered the studio and concentrated on drawing manga.
A couple of days ago, Kodansha also notified him that his manga sales were quite good and they wanted to discuss a further contract.
Regarding this matter, he directly handed it over to Hina to handle.
Simply put, he let Hina judge whether the contract was reasonable and beneficial for him.
Hina was initially flustered when she first took on this task, but after studying and reviewing it seriously, she took on the role.
In the end, the contract was renewed successfully.
One of the requirements was that Yusei had to guarantee one chapter per week.
This wasn't really pressure. After Hina inquired, Yusei agreed.
It wasn't until noon, when Hina called him for lunch, that Yusei stretched luxuriously.
Sitting down in the living room, only he and Hina were in the room. But compared to the usual cold room when only Hina was there, it now held a bit more warmth.
A happy smile was also on Hina's face. For her, Yusei coming here today made her very happy.
Hina's cooking skills were naturally not as high as the Shinomiya Family's chef, but in terms of homey feeling, Yusei still preferred Hina's cooking.
After finishing lunch, Yusei, holding his full stomach, slumped powerlessly into the chair, lazily stretching and enjoying the moment after a satisfying meal.
However, during this leisurely, peaceful moment, the gloomy thunderclouds in the distant sky caught Yusei's attention.
He got up and went to the balcony, looking towards the direction of those gloomy thunderclouds.
Yusei narrowed his eyes, then turned to Hina and said, "Hina, I need to go now. Stay home today and don't go out randomly."
Seeing Yusei's grave expression, Hina nodded obediently. She was just about to ask what happened when she saw Yusei leap directly from the balcony.