"A-Are you hurt?? Is everything all right??" Atsushi was the one who found his mentor, he reached out his hand concerned. "I was about to wake you up anyways!"

"You... Never really spoke about it but you also went through a lot, right? I'm sorry for being so busy with myself that I haven't paid enough attention to you." Now he was feeling bad. "I can't just keep accepting without giving. Is there something I can do for you?"

That didn't sound very convincing although pushing it any further would come off as rude. "Ah... Okay. May be a hot bath would help you? How do you usually relax?"

"I wanted to knock on his door to see if he was doing okay... But I heard noises and changed my mind..."

Distraction, huh. "Well... Would you please teach me how to play so we could do it together??"

He was still feeling ashamed for everything that happened and kept looking for ways to make it up somehow so he decided to start with making breakfast for 𝒩𝒶𝓀𝒶𝒿𝒾𝓂𝒶 𝒜𝓉𝓈𝓊𝓂𝒾 and ℳ͟ɪ͟𝒔𝒔ᅟ 𝐈ᴄʜ𝖎𝐌ᴀ͜͡𝐓𝚜͟𝚞͟ ᅟׅ⎖ . "Good... Morning. Please, take these as an apology! I'm... I'm going to cook for you regularly!!"

"I'm... Not really sure yet. But I've seen Tanizaki-kun playing with a fantasy game where he had to do quests and defeat bosses."

"I'll just... Pretend I wasn't even there and heard nothing...."

"Nakahara-San. If I were you I would just go home for now..."

"Definitely! The only problem is nobody deserves you!"

//About to return, finally work and my mental health would let me stay around. Missed you guys but life's been a little bit too much in the past weeks.

//Hello, it's time for me to peek back now that I worked on myself. I am genuinely sorry if I've been toxic and complained too much, I had to get better at dealing with emotions. I love everyone who's still here ❤️ Planning to show up more often from now on.

"Who are you mad at, Nee-san?"

"You're right. There's no Chazuke without rice."