[She smiles, but he's not getting out of it with a joke this time. It's not something she'll press if he really doesn't have an interest, but that's different from making up excuses.]

You've successfully crafted a business from the ground up, Masaomi. To begin with, you already have experience which outclasses the students who are going to school to learn what you already do. An advanced degree in formal Business or Management or Finance, or Marketing - which you'd probably be frustratingly good at.

[Nariko waves a hand.] You take some general courses, get your grades up, and then just pass everything. A degree is a degree even if it's covered in Cs.

[Somewhere in that house Junko is clutching her chest, knowing that an awful injustice to academia has been spoken aloud.]