405 I'm sorry

Alex looked at Rika and once again asked, "why?" The face he was making at this very moment, was full of pain, frustration, sadness, anger, and self remorse. So much was expressed in that simple look of his that a person might not believe that this man, Alex used to show no emotion at all as his face remained ever stoic. Yet now he was pouring everything within him with a single look. 

"..." Rika had no idea how to answer Alex's question, since no matter what she said would sound like an excuse. She owed it to Lyner who gave her a second chance, to do this for his student. 

Oliver and the others did not speak and simply looked at the two, waiting for them to settle their dispute by themselves.