ROE-260 After the graduation ceremony... I went to pay my respects, filled with gratitude and hatred towards the female teacher who had guided me strictly. Reiko Seio

As a teacher who has long stood at the lectern, Reiko took pride in having guided all her students to graduation without any of them dropping out. Thanks to her dedicated instruction, this year too, all her students were able to celebrate their graduation ceremony. In the empty classroom at dusk, messages of gratitude from the students on the blackboard… As Reiko looked around the classroom with deep emotion, four troublesome students burst into the room and approached her saying, 'We want to thank the teacher who has taken care of us all this time…'