“And I must say that you speak it very well!” Jerry praised him.
Korin thanked him and asked him, “Do you live with your parents?”
Jerry answered, “I live with my mother. She’s a hyper-apprehensive woman and I had to struggle to persuade her to make me leave and take part in this mission. I think she’ll never accept my decision, but I hope we will meet again on Proxima B!”
“Every mother is like that… And what about your father?” the Osaka biologist kept on asking him. Jerry froze and it took him much longer than usual to answer.
“Unfortunately, he passed away when I was a child.”
Jerry uttered those words just sorrowfully; it was a sorrow that reemerged every time someone reminded him of his dead father. Korin realized that, too.
“Sorry, I didn’t know that,” the Asian guy tried to ex
