“Sometimes, it feels like I don’t really have any options either.”
CHAIN-LINK EVENT
WARNING: this Event is part of an Event Chain! You've lost all control over your own actions and must now sit back while
someone else takes the wheel. Enjoy the ride while it lasts, and hope that you did things right before taking the plunge!
“I’m begging you!”
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After Wakana and Osako are gone, Sensei and Imani hope that they can mend their relationship problems. Imani points out how vulnerable Wakana looked, and Sensei states how he wouldn't have noticed it without her revealing it, since Wakana can hide her feelings better than him, and she recognizes how both are a lot alike in their personalities.
She wants to know how Sensei is feeling, and he isn't sure as both terrible and good things happen to him, with him focusing more on the former due to something reminding him of those, yet still wants to change for the better, with Imani noticing how he already has changed a bit since he's more open with his feelings, though he attributes this to him lacking the energy to hide them.
Imani promises to support him in whatever way she can, but he interrupts her and wants to know why she isn't wearing a swimsuit. After some resistance, Imani agrees to finally tell him why she's not feeling comfortable showing most of her body, but requests that he doesn't make any comments while she's telling him about her past and also reveals something about his in return.
With this, Imani tells her story:
Since she's the daughter of a Japanese man who had an affair with her mother, the only one who accepted her was her mother's husband, who raised her like his own daughter. Her siblings and everyone else around her, however, treated her as an outcast and bullied her, but she endured it thanks to her father's support and instead focused on her education to show her appreciation. However, things changed when she attended a party and was invited home by a popular boy, who only did it to humiliate her further with some of his friends. Things turned ugly when they decided to pour boiling water on her in an attempt to get rid of the slurs they wrote on her body, which ended up severely burning her skin, and her brother, who attended the humiliation but didn't participate in its execution, finally decided to intervene and called help. Imani managed to recover, but her body was left scarred as a process. On the bright side for her, the scars have mostly healed and she was left alone from that day onward.
After hearing her story, Sensei wants to see her wearing her swimsuit, and Imani obliges.