Yuna sent one message before midnight stating she would handle her father herself. The sentence removed every heroic fantasy where I arrived at the dojo, defeated a physician through superior event planning, then claimed a woman who had never requested rescue.
I replied that I understood and remained available if she wanted support afterward. She reacted with a single check mark, which carried more approval than any paragraph I could have written.
Wednesday dinner at Nina's apartment became the first ordinary event inside our signed trial. Yuna arrived fifteen minutes late after an argument with her father, then placed a bag of chopped vegetables on the counter without explaining herself immediately.
"I said chopping was my task. I did not say everyone had to watch me perform it," she said, removing her coat.
