"...Not to the same extent," she allows. "But enough that, though my father showed a bit more restraint in my case, I can easily see how her circumstances came to be."

It really wouldn't have taken much for him to offer her up as a guinea pig, if he'd thought he could get something for it. Haru suspects her own father didn't hear about the cognitive-world stuff until an easy way to get rid of his rivals was already in place.