"Um. Yes." I know this is my chance to get to know Kaoru-san better. I just wish it wasn't because I got tortured. "The teachers probably know that something happened to me, too." Maybe not why I was tortured, but that I was injured in a monster attack.

Mio replies to me, smiling. "Of course you are! Ask Kaoru-san if she'd like to join us. There's so much the three of us could talk about. Does she have any interest in family records?"

I laugh as I convey Mio's words to Kaoru-san, mentally translating from the grammar of sign to regular Japanese.