Evil Spirit Consultant

Chapter 272 The Second Unsolvable Problem
A rapid clatter of high heels on the ground grew louder as it approached, accompanied by a sharp, anxious female voice:

"Yumi! Yumi! My daughter! What happened?!"

A middle-aged woman, dressed in a well-tailored designer suit and with exquisite makeup, but who seemed somewhat out of sorts at the moment, stumbled over, surrounded by a group of teachers.

She immediately spotted her daughter lying unconscious on the bed, screamed, rushed over, shoved aside Sasaki-sensei who was trying to explain the situation, and grabbed Tanaka Yumi's shoulders, shaking her violently!

"Yumi, wake up! Look at your mother! What's wrong with you?!"

She is Tanaka Yumi's mother, Tanaka Emiko.

Clearly, the school notified her immediately after the accident.

Seeing her somewhat rough actions, Yang Liu frowned and stood up to dissuade her: "Ms. Tanaka, please rest assured, Tanaka Yumi is not hurt. She just fainted because of too much pressure."

"Too much pressure? I heard she was going to jump off a building?!" Tanaka Emiko said anxiously.

Yang Liu noticed something odd about her expression, but still dutifully replied, "Please rest assured, although she was indeed momentarily confused, thankfully, Mr. Sasaki Sumire rescued Tanaka in time. Now she just needs a short rest..."

Looking at the scene before her, Yang Liu couldn't bring herself to say anything more.

Because Tanaka Emiko didn't listen to what he was saying at all, and instead kept shaking Tanaka Yumi, forcibly waking her from her coma.

Tanaka Yumi, who was shaken violently, slowly woke up and saw her mother's face, which was twisted with anger and disappointment. Her eyes were instantly filled with a deep-seated fear.

She instinctively tried to dodge, but her mother held her tightly.

"Tell me! What exactly happened?! Why did you do this?!" Tanaka Emiko, disregarding the fact that her daughter had just regained consciousness, demanded an explanation in a stern voice.

He was so excited that his spittle almost landed on Yumi's face when he spoke.

Under her mother's intense gaze, Tanaka Yumi trembled like a leaf in the wind, and through broken sobs and fear, she revealed the truth: "...It was the exam, I...I came in second again. I...I feel so sorry for you, Mom...I'm useless...I'm a failure...I don't want to, I don't want to disappoint you anymore..."

Upon hearing that her daughter had attempted suicide because she had only come in second place, a series of extremely complex and distorted expressions flashed across Tanaka Emiko's face—a fleeting look of astonishment, but more so an incredulous anger, a deep-seated disappointment, and a kind of... a morbid, as if "I knew it" understanding and a strange sense of "satisfaction."
She took a deep breath and released her grip on her daughter's shoulders.

He took a step back, looked his daughter up and down as if she were a frightened bird, and then said, word by word, in an extremely cold tone, even with a hint of mockery:

"Just because... you didn't get first place?"

Her voice wasn't loud, but it pierced the eardrums of everyone present like an icicle.

"Yumi, you really... disappoint me so much! How can you not understand that in this family, in this world, only being number one matters! Everything else is trash! Everything else is failure!"

She paused, a strange and cold smile curving her lips, her eyes flashing with a chilling light.

“But… seeing that you actually want to die because of this… ha…” She let out a short, strange laugh. “As your mother, I am the one who should be most ashamed. What a failure to raise such a useless and fragile daughter like you!”

“But!” she abruptly changed the subject, her tone even carrying a twisted sense of “gratification” and a perverse “encouragement.”

"Mom, I'm so happy! Really! Because you finally understand how I feel, right?! You understand the deep-seated, utterly disappointed feeling I have every time I see you not in first place, right?! Great! Excellent! Now you know how painful failure is, and you know you have to work twice as hard! Double as hard again! Try your hardest! Go and take that damn first place back for me! Do you hear me?!"

These words were like demonic voices from hell!
The woman's voice was sharp and harsh, completely lacking the worry and heartache a mother should have after seeing her daughter nearly die; instead, it was full of accusation and disappointment.

The air around us seemed to freeze!
Everyone was stunned by Tanaka Emiko's completely inhumane and extremely cruel remarks.

The teachers who had rushed to the infirmary after hearing the commotion frowned, wanting to dissuade her, but hesitated to speak because of Tanaka Emiko's overbearing demeanor. Koizumi Rin also ran over from the stairwell, her face turning red with anger upon hearing what she had said. She was about to confront her when Yang Liu stopped her with a look.

Sasaki Sumiya, standing to the side, also had a livid face, his eyes filled with anger and disgust as he looked at the woman.

Seeing that she wanted to continue speaking, Yang Liu, who had been silently watching from the sidelines, suddenly stepped forward.

He stepped forward, his tall figure like an iron tower standing between the trembling Yumi and her demonic mother, his aura suddenly turning icy cold.

An overwhelming sense of oppression, so powerful it was almost tangible, spread out.

His voice wasn't loud, but it carried a chilling quality that seemed to emanate from the deepest abyss.

"Ms. Tanaka."

These few words alone made the previously arrogant Tanaka Emiko involuntarily shiver and subconsciously take half a step back.

Yang Liu's deep eyes, like two bottomless, icy pools, stared coldly at her as she said, word by word, "Do you understand what you're saying?"

"Your daughter, just a few minutes ago, tried to end her own life!"

"And you, as her mother, not only show no concern or care, but instead, you continue to push her to the brink of despair with your twisted, perverse, and self-righteous so-called 'expectations'!"

"You call this 'love'? You call this 'education'?" Yang Liu's voice suddenly rose several decibels, filled with undisguised anger. "No! This is not love! This is mental abuse in the name of love! It's pure selfishness and a desire for control! It's your own impotent rage from the failures of your own life, which you're trying to impose on your daughter!"

"You are destroying her with your own hands! You don't deserve to be a mother!"

Yang Liu's words were like the sharpest knife, peeling away layer by layer, one sentence at a time, revealing the seemingly glamorous exterior of Tanaka Emiko, exposing the rotten, twisted, controlling, and obsessive heart beneath.

Tanaka Emiko was completely stunned by Yang Liu's tangible, icy aura and merciless rebuke!
She opened her mouth, wanting to retort, wanting to use her former prestige and status to intimidate others, but under Yang Liu's gaze, which seemed to freeze her soul, she found herself unable to utter a single word! Even breathing became difficult.

fear!

An unprecedented, soul-deep fear seized her!
The man in front of her was clearly just an ordinary school teacher, but the aura he exuded was more terrifying than any important figure she had ever seen!
It was a kind of... absolute power that seemed capable of easily crushing everything!
"I..." Tanaka Emiko took a few steps back in a disheveled manner, her eyes darting away, no longer daring to meet Yang Liu's gaze.

Noticing the stares of others, she forced herself to remain calm, and while pulling the still dizzy Tanaka Yumi towards the door, she shouted in a threatening but ultimately weak voice:

"You're talking nonsense! I'm doing this for her own good! You...you wait! I'm going to file a complaint against you! It's just a lousy school; my daughter doesn't need to study in such a crappy place!"

Amidst the disdainful and complicated gazes of those around her, she practically fled, staggering as she dragged her daughter away from the school.

Watching Tanaka Emiko's disheveled departure, Yang Liu's cold gaze did not diminish in the slightest.

A reprimand? A warning?
He knew how powerless words were to those who had fallen into paranoia and distortion.

He could save Tanaka Yumi's body, but as long as this nightmarish mother existed, the shackles on Yumi's soul would never be broken.

Recalling the look in Tanaka Yumi's eyes as she passed by, as if she hadn't yet recovered from the shock of her mother's words, a deep sense of powerlessness welled up in her heart for the first time.

Even with his current immense power, there are still things he cannot do.

(End of this chapter)