Sakaki sneered:

"Resurrecting the dead and reversing the flow of time, are you ashamed to say such a purpose?"

"Once the aptx plan succeeds, won't those people I killed be able to come back to life?"

The old man nodded and smiled:

"I will use practical actions to prove that their decision to betray me was wrong. I am a magnanimous person, so of course I will forgive the fools for what they did. Their death is only temporary. When I succeed, that will be the day they are resurrected, including... your father."

Under Sakaki Makoto's gaze, the old man snapped his fingers, and a life-support device stacked in the corner opened the hatch. In the gushing mist, a mechanical arm pulled up a figure.

Skin as pale as paper, a thin face, long black hair that fell to the waist, a emaciated figure, electrodes stuck all over his body, and a thing like a ventilator on his face. As soon as I saw him... Sakaki Makoto's heart suddenly skipped a beat and his head ached violently, as if something was trying to come out.

"Ryunosuke, my most satisfied and most admired grandson-in-law."

The old man said expressionlessly:

"Do you think he's dead? No... I said I'm a magnanimous person. Even though he betrayed me, I didn't kill him, and neither did you."

The old man stared at Sakaki Makoto and said word by word:

"The dead will eventually be resurrected. This is my promise to the Karasuma family. No matter how many years pass, as long as I am still alive, I will continue the glory of the family!"