“Don’t hate me, Onoda-kun. If you’re going to hear me out, that’s all I wish. My admiration for you never took a hit from this… interrogation.” While biting her lips, perhaps to stop her tears from streaming down her face, Yanagi Kaede pleadingly gazed upon me, her words imploring for my understanding. “It’s my wrong to follow you when there are other options like paying a visit or asking Tomiko to set up another meeting with you… I was being cowardly.”
Well, if someone else heard all of that, they would think I was bullying her or I was tormenting her over something she did.
However, the truth of the matter was… everything was in line with the interrogation that flowed rather smoothly.
I asked questions and she answered each of them honestly, without missing a beat.
The only reason she probably resorted to saying that was because when I reached the end of the questions lined up in my head, I silently contemplated and rearranged the various thoughts in my head.