A special education center was, essentially, a school for the disabled.
And since Julian had already completed his higher education, it was inevitable he would misunderstand Mika's motives for bringing him here.
"Relax, I'm not enrolling you in school~" Mika awkwardly laughed it off.
"The Restoration Society is organizing a social outreach program soon, and I wanted to host it at this school to provide free physical therapy and rehab for the students and teachers.
I'm just here to do a site visit, and I figured I'd bring you along for the ride~"
"There's nothing to see. I'm not interested." Julian tried to turn his wheelchair around and leave.
But Mika was quick, tightly gripping the handles of his wheelchair.
"Don't leave! We're already here. Getting sun here is just as good as anywhere else, right?"
The electric wheelchair had a motor.
But with Mika's hands firmly clamped on the handles, the wheels spun furiously against the concrete without inching forward a single millimeter.
The wheelchair just sat there, whirring uselessly on the pavement, looking more pathetic the harder it tried.
Julian glared at Mika in furious disbelief.
Before this, when his nanny tried to stop his moving electric wheelchair, she had been dragged several feet before barely bringing him to a halt.
And she was clearly struggling to do it.
How was this skinny little woman so damn strong?
She stopped him dead in his tracks without even breaking a sweat!
Did he not have any dignity left?!
"Calm down, calm down." Mika shamelessly pried his fingers off the joystick. "Just consider it doing me a favor."
He couldn't run away anyway, so he was essentially at her mercy.
Mika immediately elevated Julian's motives, making it impossible for him to keep scowling.
When Principal York greeted him, he had no choice but to put on a polite, friendly facade and give her a slight nod.
Principal York smiled warmly and ushered them inside.
"I'm very interested in the program you mentioned on the phone. It would be wonderful if we could partner up, but I'm just not sure about your fees..."
"Oh, our society's outreach is strictly charitable. Even if there are operational costs, we secure our own sponsorships. The school won't have to pay a single cent."
Principal York let out a breath of relief, her smile growing even brighter. "Wonderful, wonderful! Let me show you around the kids' learning environment first."
She led Mika and Julian to the outside of a classroom.
Compared to a traditional school setting, this classroom was remarkably quiet.
The only sound inside was the faint scraping of chairs being moved.

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