Taku has the gall to sound defensive. "Geeze, I just—"

"I don't care," she interrupts, walking back to the center of the room with a bottle in hand. She doesn't sit next to Rei, either.

...yeah.

He pushes her plate in her direction, though.

Fine, sure, she'll eat.

The silence this time stretches longer than just a moment, with both Taku and Rei aware that they were doing a bit too much.

That's fine, her irritation dissipates nearly as quickly as it showed up and the low-volume meaningless TV noise helps keep the edge off.

She hates silence.

"...has been hospitalised this morning after a heart attack..."

"—wait, turn up the volume."

Rei glances at Towa and, seeing no resistance from her, does so.

"Takasato Ryūjirō, founder and chairman of Takasato Group, age 81, was one of the main driving forces behind the establishment of Shinkōmi. Known in the early 2000s as the Tōkyō Waterfront City Center of Odaiba, it's the only Special Administrative District of Japan to allow gambling largely due to the Group's lobbying, and its status as a world-famous tourist destination has made it the most prosperous..."

She stops paying attention, turning back to her food and drink. Mostly drink.

"...hey, Towa, isn't that... your dad...?"

"Yes." Not that she's ever had a relationship with Takasato, really. The man never married, and his two children were by different women who were part of his gang. "Were" because Towa's mother died when she was a child, but Towa has no idea who Kaga's mother is or was, either, and in any event Kaga himself is dead so it doesn't matter. 

...actually, was Takasato also Towa's little sister's father? For some reason she doesn't think so, but her sister died when their mother did and people are always reluctant to talk about her so Towa doesn't actually know.

Or care, really.

"Are you... okay?"

"Yeah." She barely knows the man.

"Would you like me to—" Taku starts, but the look of utter indifference Towa gives him stops him. He smiles self-consciously and shrugs. "Never mind."

She really doesn't get what the big deal is. Towa interacted with that guy like five times in her life and all of them were before Kaga died. He's a sperm donor at best.

Whatever. She should eat this food quickly so that she can enjoy the rest of her afternoon alone before she has to go to work.

"Oh, hey, Rei, you had a match last night, right? How did that go?"

"It went well! They never had a chance, Honami was a beast..."