Actually, things were nowhere near as terrifying as Nijika had made them sound.
After speaking on the phone with Kita's parents, Miki Kashiwagi learned the real situation: Kita's mother had been in a traffic accident, and though her life wasn't in danger, she needed to go to a hospital in Hokkaido for surgery and recuperation.
Financial matters weren't an issue thanks to medical insurance, but the problem was that there simply wasn't enough manpower to take care of Kita.
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