Joanna had waited for Canillas to speak, to answer her inquiry. But what he had done since then was only stare at her face intently.
Feeling shy about how messy her face should look at the moment, Joanna blinked, looking away while saying, "I have to go back to my room." With that, Joanna moved, about to push her body up from the bed. It seemed that he was unwilling to tell her that. Joanna thought based on the duration of time that was left in silence.
"I lost my father." Then, she heard him talk to her, uttering sad-sounding words that pulled her back to lie on the bed.
It was not something that she did not know. Before she left Terra, her father had informed her about the General's family background. Hence, it was not a big surprise for her to hear from him that his father had passed away, and, regardless of genders, it was normal for children to shed tears for their parents' departure.
