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Rie wakes up with a scream . She can still hear them laugh when Miwako fed her the dirty food . She can't forget what she felt when she was forced to eat dirt . She feels like she can't breathe in this room . She walks to the flower field . She wonders how long can she walks until it ends .

She pauses when she feels an intense gaze on her back . She sees the evil man smoking near the bench quietly . She looks around . Ren isn't here . She is alone with this evil man .

"Don't come close," She shouts when she sees him walking toward her .

Kiyohira steps back . She is terrified of him . He can't help but ask her . "Why?"

"You are bad," She replies with a childlike voice and throws the branch at him . "Don't come near me . "

It seems like he is labeled because of his intense eyes . She might not be afraid of him if he gets plastic surgery . He wonders if he should get it . Kiyohira picks up the flower branch . "Why are you here at night? You aren't wearing much . You will catch a cold . "

She runs deeper into the flower field . Kiyohira sighs . "Don't run at night . You will fall . "

His words act like a jinx . She falls on her face and screams . Kiyohira runs to her and finds her crying in pain . Her face and arms have small cuts . She crawls away when she sees him and sobs harder . She s.h.i.+elds her shaking body, ready to get hit . "Don't hurt me . Don't hurt me . "

Kiyohira feels weak . What kind of monster turn her like this? He is ashamed of himself for treating her the way he did .

"I will do anything that you ask me to . " She squeezes her eyes shut . "I am your dog . I am your toy . You can call me whatever you want . "

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Kiyohira grabs her shoulder and shakes her . "You are n.o.body's toy . "

She howls loudly . "Mother, where are you? They hurt me every day . They make me eat trash . Take me away from this place, Father . I will be a good child . I will study hard . Don't leave me here . It hurts so much . "

Her each desperate cry is heart-shattering to him . He holds her tightly in her arms and tells her softly, "It's okay . Cry as much as you want . You have been keeping it all in your heart for a long time . I am here to listen . I will protect you from anyone . I won't leave you alone . I promise that I will make all of them pay for doing this to you . "

Yuhara Kozue watches them from afar . They haven't noticed him yet . He writes down his observation in his notebook .

[Day 5: The woman is caught taking the night stroll by the evil man . She has another episode . The evil man keeps her in his arms until she stops crying . ]

"He's not all bad . "

Startled, Yuhara Kozue jumps . "Professor, what are you doing here?"

Umezaki Yus.h.i.+ro raises his brow . "I am taking a night stroll . "

When Rie slips into sleep in Kiyohira's arms, he brings her back to the house . Umezaki Yus.h.i.+ro follows them quietly into the house .

"Did he come to watch her every night since she came here?" Yuhara Kozue mumbles to himself . "If he is keeping a watch, then why is he asking me to keep watch? One of us should get some sleep . "

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"Uncle, I am doing the same thing . " Rie pouts her lips .

"If you are doing the same thing, it won't turn out like this . " Umezaki Yus.h.i.+ro shakes his head . "You must have full concentration and patience when you are doing pottery . It's an art, not a ch.o.r.e . "

The vessel is deformed again . Rie is frustrated to see that Umezaki and Ren's works are better than hers . The one she made looks like it has been made by a 5 years old child .

"Why do I have to do this?" Rie grumbles . "It's Ren who promised you that he would help you . "

"Sorry, Rie . " Ren smiles at her . "We should help this old man as much as we can . "

"This boy!" Umezaki glares at Ren . "Who is old?"

"If you aren't old, then what are you?" Rie smirks . "Half of your hair is white . "

Yuhara, who has been watching from afar, writes down in his notebook .

[Day 6: The woman and her boyfriend are teasing Professor Umezaki during the pottery session . Professor Umezaki is pretending to be offended . The woman is relaxing little by little . P . S . She doesn't have a bone of an artist . ]

Yuhara notices Kiyohira standing by the door and watching Rie with deep affections and a soft smile .

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[The evil man's gaze is better today . He looks like a man in love . The woman already has a boyfriend, but the evil man wants to s.n.a.t.c.h her away from her boyfriend . The woman has seen the man now . She isn't running away today . ]

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"Ichihara, come and help us . " Umezaki Yus.h.i.+ro calls Kiyohira . "Little one is bad at making this . We need an expert's hands to finish the number . "

Kiyohira takes a seat beside Rie . She s.h.i.+fts closer to Ren . Her shoulders are tensed . She peeks at Kiyohira . When their gaze meets, she looks away and hides her face with her hair .

It seems like she is a little less afraid of him . He doesn't need to get plastic surgery . Kiyohira shows a small smile .

Ren binds her disheveled hair into a bun . "You should tie your hair when we are making potteries, Rie . "

She breaks into a smile and pecks the tip of his nose . "Ren, you are there to do that for me . "

"Uh . . . " Ren glances at Kiyohira who is looking down at Rie's deformed piece of pottery . "Yes, I will do that as long as you let me . "

"Young birds in love . " Umezaki Yus.h.i.+ro looks dreamy . "It reminds me of the time when I met my wife for the first time on a blind date . It was love at first sight . "

"Old man, you are reminiscing your first date . What about us? I want to go on dates with him, but I am stuck here for a week . " Rie cracks her knuckles . "If we don't go on dates, we won't have anything good to remember when we are old . "

"Rie chan, you had an accident . You need to rest more . " Ren turns to Kiyohira . Is he the same man who nearly killed Rie and Ren for running away? He won't do anything crazy this time, would he?

Rie furrows her brows . "How much rest? I am perfectly fine now . I will go crazy if I stay inside this huge place one more day . Let's go watch a movie . "

"O . K . " Umezaki Yus.h.i.+ro makes O . K . signs with both hands . "Yuhara will drive you to the nearest movie theatre . If you want to go anywhere else, he will take you . "

Yuhara drops the notebook and shouts, "Professor, why me?"

Umezaki ignores him . The kid needs exposure to the woman to get over his gynophobia . "Ichihara, do you want to go too?"

"No!" Rie crosses her arms . "Old man, is it a date if there are so many people going with me? I will only take that driver . "

"I am not a driver . "

Rie turns around and looks at Yuhara . "You are not?"

"I-I-I . . . " She's talking to him . What should he say? "D-D-D-D-R-I-VE . . . "

"If you can drive, then you can come . " Rie smiles at him . "You speak in a funny way . "

"T-T-T-THANK YOU!" Yuhara runs out of the room . Outside the room, he realizes that she made fun of him . He writes another observation .

[The woman makes fun of him for the way he talks . ]

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