⊰⋅⋅•⋅⋅⋅•⋅∙∘☽MALCOLM'S P.O.V.☾∘∙•⋅⋅⋅•⋅⋅⊰
The lunch with Rioji had gone about as good as you would expect it to. He’s broken down, cried, and asked me a thousand questions about his younger brother. Some questions I couldn’t answer because it wasn’t my place to say and he didn’t respond well to that. The family is suffering. I can see it, and if this doesn’t work they might be forced to do something even more drastic.
Rioji didn’t specify what his family considered more drastic than sending Kaito half way across the world to a mental institution but I could take a good guess.
Either they disown Kaito, or they might enlist the help of a specialist to cast a spell on him. Taking away his free will or his memory of whatever had happened. Those were my two guesses. And neither would make an
