The Choice
選択
The following week, Mr. Kato called Mina into his bright office.
If she had stayed , none of this would have happened.
"The company has noticed your talent," he said with a warm smile.
"We would like to you a much higher ."
If Mina had heard this a month earlier, she would have been proud.
Now she understood what such a would really .
"You could have a life," Mr. Kato continued gently.
"All you have to do is forget what you have seen."
If she accepted, she could keep her job and her safety.
But if she refused, they would erase her memory completely.
"If you had not opened those files, this choice would not exist," he said.
Mina realised that she could lose everything she cared about.
If she had been braver earlier, she could have warned other people.
She thought of Elena, whose trust had been so cruelly betrayed.
That face would not leave her mind, no matter how she tried.
"I could give you until tomorrow to ," Mr. Kato offered.
If Daniel had stayed, he would have told her to run away.
But Daniel was gone, and the choice was hers alone.
She knew she could never live comfortably with such a heavy secret.
If she said yes, she would thousands of forgotten people.
If she said no, she would lose her own memories forever.
Either path would take something away from her.
That night, Mina could not close her eyes for even a moment.
By morning, she had quietly made the hardest choice of her life.