Since it's like this, why not directly accept the returned IOUs and repayments from them.
Harada pursed his lips and looked up at the sky.
He seemed to be pondering what Aoto, Zhouzhu, and the others were just saying.
But obviously—without the habit of thinking, his brain automatically triggered a resistance mechanism.
Only about 5 seconds later, Harada shook his head tiredly: "Although I don't quite understand what you all just said, this should also be a good thing, right? No need to pay those guys back anymore."
With that, Harada chuckled and reached out to embrace Aoto's shoulder.
"Mr. Tachibana, congratulations! Your family's gambling debt is settled!"
"Hmm..." Aoto's mouth curved into a thoughtful arc.
Since traveling through time, he hadn't met his father Tachibana Ryuzo, who had long died from illness, so Aoto's deepest impression of Tachibana Ryuzo was "left him a rather troublesome debt."
And now, this big trouble was finally resolved in an unexpected way.
