"Let me explain..." Mrs. Tsujimura sighed, calming herself down.
In her story, Tsujimura Isao, a diplomat who is currently enjoying great success and may even have a chance to advance further, is actually a scumbag who resorts to dirty tricks to get promoted.
"Father knows about these things, doesn't he?" Mrs. Tsujimura questioned sharply. "Yet you didn't even try to stop him!"
Mr. Tsujimura nodded without any hesitation.
"But this kind of thing..."
“If it weren’t for him, my ex-husband wouldn’t have been wrongfully imprisoned and would never have committed suicide in despair in prison…”
Mrs. Tsujimura continued her accusations.
"And I was kept in the dark all along, until... he heard about Takayoshi and Sachiko's relationship, and then he hysterically objected..."
Kizen was the son of Tsujimura, the diplomat.
The young man, who was both worried and confused, finally dared to ask in a trembling voice, "Then... am I related to Sachiko by blood?"
"Idiot, of course not!" Kogoro, who was quite adept at gossip, immediately reassured him, "You are Mr. Tsujimura's daughter with his ex-wife, and Ms. Sachiko is your stepmother's daughter with her ex-husband. So, apart from having a legal sibling relationship, you two are completely unrelated!"
"But...but why would my father object..."
"That's because he has a guilty conscience!" Mrs. Tsujimura said sternly. "He not only harmed Sachiko's father, but also me..."
"Did it cause you to divorce Mr. Yamashiro and fall into the arms of your political enemy?"
Amidst a chorus of bitter and resentful accusations, a cold voice suddenly spoke.
Unlike the others who were engrossed in gossip, Yoruichi Toyama had no sympathy for this vengeful lady from the very beginning.
While it's true that corruption and filth are rampant in Japanese politics, which is normal, it shouldn't be taken as correct.
But those who will be schemed against to the point of utter ruin are basically those who don't have the skill level and aren't worthy of being in this circle.
Or perhaps it was abandoned by their own forces, a tactic of sacrificing a pawn to save the king.
So while Kenji Yamashiro deserves sympathy, he's not someone who would completely sympathize with everyone.
Who is cleaner in politics than whom?
And yet, without even knowing these things, she becomes utterly desperate after her husband's arrest, and rushes to cling to anyone who pursues her, regardless of whether the other party is her husband's wife or not. Is she truly innocent?
Besides, wasn't it she who gave up custody of her daughter?
If she hadn't divorced her ex-husband and hadn't given up on her daughter, would her grandmother's family have been so forceful in taking the child away?
How could a family with those kinds of methods not try to get Kenji Yamashiro himself?
She abandoned her husband and daughter, remarried her political enemy, and even thought her life had finally been saved...
To be blunt, it might have been her behavior that drove Kenji Yamashiro, who had been in prison for several years, to despair and commit suicide...
She has the nerve to act as a vengeful messenger!
"Madam, have you ever thought about what would happen to this family if your ex-husband's imprisonment plunged you into a 'low point'? If your revenge plan succeeds and Mr. Tsujimura dies, won't you fall into another 'low point'?"
Mrs. Tsujimura paused for a moment in response to Yoruichi Toyama's seemingly unperturbed questioning.
Then, almost instinctively, he said, "If...no one would even notice..."
"Has no one noticed that Mr. Tsujimura was murdered?"
Yoruichi Toyama smiled slightly.
"That's true, you... our Japanese police, can be quite unreliable sometimes..."
"Okay, even if this matter can be covered up and ended up as an accidental death, what about your family?"
"Such a big house, a car for getting around, a driver, bodyguards, and servants...aren't all of these things brought by your husband?"
"I...I don't care!" Mrs. Tsujimura exclaimed. "I've had enough of being deceived by him for decades!"
"As long as my daughter and Guishan can be together, I don't care if I have nothing!"
"I'm afraid... that won't work?" Faced with such a high-profile statement, it wasn't Yoruichi Toyama who was the first to refute it, but Uncle Kogoro.
"Madam, you don't produce anything and you don't have insurance money, right?"
"If your husband were to pass away, would you really want your two children to support you in your old age?"
The middle-aged man scratched his head, looking puzzled, but Mrs. Tsujimura found it incredibly ironic.
"I...I can go to work..."
"Well, you'd have to know how to do that, right?" Kogoro immediately chimed in. "Leaving aside highly technical fields, you don't even seem to have a certificate..."
"Even if you were a supermarket cashier, you'd be 50 years old, right? You couldn't compete with a 20-year-old girl!"
"So, women should learn more when they're young, have a skill, so they'll have confidence if they need to leave home in the future..."
The conversation went awry.
Aside from Heiji Hattori, everyone around Kogoro knew who he was comparing himself to.
The uncle, who has a famous lawyer wife, is making statements that sound like a feminist brainwashing package.
Yoruichi Toyama nodded, suppressing a laugh.
"That being said... Madam, you clearly haven't considered what will happen after the plan is completed."
"If you wanted to work, why didn't you work 20 years ago? Why do you have to find a man to make a living?"
"Or is it that you were just making excuses when we pressed you about working, and that you don't really think that way at all?"
"She murdered her husband without anyone noticing, and can still enjoy everything she has as a diplomat's widow, plus the joy of having her daughter and stepson by her side..."
"You've really got a clever plan!"
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