The words lodge in his stomach. He sets his chopsticks down. "You mean Haru-san's father?"

Wagtail has met the man. He doesn't like him; doesn't like his distance from Haru, or the large, fake smiles he gives him, knowing that he's one of Mitsuru-san's wards. As for Wakaba Isshiki—he knows of her. He's even seen her, and watched her, the same way he saw and watched Karasu. She's Futaba's mother.