The next day, Haruka, Senior Takumi and I are heading to the temple. Only close friends and family are attending the funeral. As dad and I greet the guests at the reception desk, I notice that none of them are Ms. Riko’s friends and relatives. The rest of the guests are dad’s relatives and friends. “Please accept my sincere condolences. It was unfortunate that she died in a car accident,” one of dad’s relatives says to him as she gives us the condolence money.
I guess that dad must have told them that Ms. Riko got involved in a car accident while she was in Nagano. We’re lucky that her death doesn’t make it to the news headline. The hospital administration is doing what they can to stop the news from leaking to the press. They also need to compensate the witnesses, so then they won’t tell
