Lunch was over.
While washing dishes in the kitchen, Mariko Akiyama glanced at Reiko Onodera beside her and quietly asked,
"Reiko, do you know if anyone likes Mr. Haruka?"
Reiko Onodera was taken aback and, after some thought, slowly began to speak,
"There should be, Mr. Haruka is so handsome, there must be many young girls at school who like him."
After considering for a moment, Mariko Akiyama felt that her daughter's words made a lot of sense, but she still quietly reminded her,
"Reiko, compared to those girls, you don't have an advantage of your own. Sometimes you can think about problems from a different angle, it doesn't have to be..."
The madam's words were very subtle, and it was something she had contemplated for a long time before deciding to discuss it with her daughter.
Setting aside whether Haruka Yuzan was willing, even as Reiko Onodera's mother, she felt that the chances of her daughter eventually marrying Haruka Yuzan were almost zero.