The exquisite gift box contained a few green bananas and a bundle of brown incense sticks.
Bananas represent gratitude and remembrance in Japan, while incense and incense sticks represent health.
Children who live far away from home often send bananas to their families to express their homesickness.
After opening the box, the woman's eyes showed nostalgia, as if someone had given her a similar item long ago.
"May I know your names?"
"My last name is Nakamori, and this person's last name is Oguri."
Kidd replied.
Of course they wouldn't be stupid enough to reveal their real names. Not to mention their names, their faces are fake.
The woman poured them some hot tea and said with a smile:
"You two have come all the way from Tokyo to visit me on behalf of Kiichiro. Thank you for all the hard work."
"I don't have anything special to offer at home, so I can only invite you two to taste the snacks I made at home. Please forgive me..."
"I dare not..."
Kidd waved his hands quickly:
“I love traditional dim sum the most!”
"presumably..."
Looking at Sakaki Makoto, the woman lowered her eyes and asked:
"You two must be very good friends with my Kiichiro."
"After all, he has to come all the way to visit his mother..."
"Um."
This time, Sakaki Makoto finally spoke:
"We met once."
"Have you heard from him recently?"
"No..."
After saying this, the woman fell silent.
Sakaki Makoto stopped asking questions, and the room became silent.
Kidd looked at the woman, then at Sakaki Makoto, confused for a moment.
Holding the teacup, Makoto Sakaki drank faster and faster.
He picked up a piece of senbei and put it in his mouth, chewing it with a crunch.
After a while...
He took the last sip of tea and said:
"Then we'll take our leave."
"Wait a moment!"
The woman seemed to have made up her mind. She gritted her teeth, stood up, walked quickly to the cabinet beside her, and took out a box.
Inside the box were stacks of banknotes wrapped in plastic film.
Seeing this, Sakaki Makoto said quietly:
"Are you sure?"
"Um."
The woman pushed the box in front of Sakaki Makoto and Kidd and said with a firm look:
"This money was sent to me by Jiyilang over the years."
"The total is 2.3 million."
"I also know that he killed many people..."
Kidd's eyes widened:
"So what you mean is..."
Without answering his question directly, the woman lowered her head and clasped her wrinkled hands together:
"I divorced his father when Kiichiro was little."
"His original surname wasn't Numabuchi either, but I changed it after I moved back to my mother's family."
"Due to life's pressure, I failed to discipline him properly, and he spent his childhood hanging out on the streets, playing with hooligans all day long..."
At this time, she noticed that Sakaki Makoto's teacup was empty, so she quickly picked up the teapot and poured him another cup.
Sakaki Makoto...
There was no stopping her movements.
"Because of the lack of fatherly love, Kiichiro's temperament became perverse and strange, and his behavior became more and more flamboyant..."
The woman bit her lip, as if pouring out her sorrows or reminiscing about the past, and then she spoke:
"At that time, my parents who lived in Gunma Prefecture passed away one after another, and I had to manage the store alone, so I didn't notice his changes..."
"By the time I found out, he had grown up and wouldn't listen to my advice."
"He couldn't concentrate on his studies and spent his days hanging out on the streets. In order to give him a decent job, I signed him up for a driving test 20 years ago..."
The woman's body trembled slightly, and she recalled her painful past with a sad expression:
"But I didn't expect that he would...actually..."
Kidd was so fascinated by what he heard that he subconsciously asked:
"What's wrong with him?"
"Kiichiro, he..."
The woman took a deep breath and continued:
"I drank too much one day and leaked the brake fluid of a driving school instructor's car..."
"Originally, this was supposed to be just a prank, but the coach got into a car accident and lost his life because of it."
"Because of fear, he left home and went to Tokyo alone..."
"I thought he would turn over a new leaf and become a new man, but he ended up committing crimes..."
Nodding, Sakaki took out his cigarette box:
"Can I smoke?"
"Can."
The woman took an ashtray from the cupboard and placed it on the table.
Snap!
After lighting the cigarette, Sakaki took a puff and said:
"Twenty years ago, Kiichiro Numabuchi killed a driving school instructor because of a prank. This incident..."
"You did not notify the police at the time."
If the woman had told the police about this 20 years ago, Kiichiro Numabuchi would undoubtedly have gone to jail.
"I have lost my husband and parents. Kiichiro is my only child and my last relative..."
The woman smiled bitterly:
"Thinking about it now, I deeply regret my actions."
"regret?"
Kidd asked curiously:
"Why would a mother regret protecting her son?"
This is what Sakaki Makoto wanted to ask.
Since Asami Numabuchi did not tell the truth 20 years ago, why did she suddenly confess today, 20 years later?
"Kiichiro is my son."
The woman looked up with tears in her eyes:
"Aren't those people he killed the sons of other people?"
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