The bowl Professor Yeno was holding seemed to slip from his grasp and crashed to the floor.
The food inside scattered all over.
The red juice from the tomatoes stained the carpet.
Before his wife and children could ask what was wrong,
The professor, as if struck by some great stimulus—an exhilarating stimulus—lost his usual reticent and reserved demeanor.
Instead, he displayed an expression his wife and daughters had never seen before.
It was
Excitement.
As if...
Something that existed only in history and legends had truly appeared before him.
Yeno disregarded everything else.
He rudely pushed the chair away and rushed out of the dining room at top speed, sprinting towards his study.
The wife and daughters left behind were confused and puzzled.
But the reason was known only to Yeno himself.