Chapter 205 Death Game Confrontation
Lin Xi leaned against the console, trying to turn off the microphone calmly, but Kamijouji Shin, who noticed his intention, shot him.
The bullet grazed Lin Xi's hand and pierced the microphone switch.
Lin Xi took a breath and slowly raised her hands. "I wanted to talk to you privately... but it seems you need more listeners?"
Under Kamijutsuji's fox mask, his blue eyes stared at her intently. "Chat? Haha, we do have a lot to talk about."
"You really impressed me, Mizutani Sayuri. How did you find this place?"
Before Lin Xi could respond, he revealed a look of sudden realization: "Is it Yue Jiangfeng?"
"Haha, the unfortunate guy who was betrayed, yet at the last moment, he still wanted to avenge his betrayer... How can there be such a stupid person in the world?"
He had a strange look in his eyes, a bit like anger, a bit like mockery: "What's the point of him coming after you? Aren't you going to be killed by me now?"
"That's right, but I want to be the one who knows." Lin Xi raised his hand and said calmly, "Kamiji Shin, what exactly is your grudge against us?"
"Is it worth your trouble to bring us together and watch us struggle in the deadly game you designed?"
In the room, Asayama Rika trembled suddenly when she heard Lin Xi's words.
"Ah Xin, is it really Ah Xin? ...How could it be Ah Xin?"
Kusakawa Ryosuke moved his injured arm and looked at Asayama Rika with pity: "Do you still want to kill me now?"
"Kamitsuji Shin helped me come here, and one of the conditions was that I vote him out in the first round."
"From the beginning to the end, all your heartbreaks were fake."
"And your identity? Can you guess why you're a werewolf? Shin Kamijutsuji gave it to you on purpose, just to make you kill people, to use your hatred to kill your mother. So pitiful, tsk tsk tsk, I'm almost starting to sympathize with you—ow!"
Toru Amuro hit his arm hard again.
"I'm sorry." He kept smiling. "I saw that your arm was sprained, and I wanted to help you heal it."
Kusakawa Ryosuke: "How can this be called recovery? You clearly put it on again--ah!"
Amuro Toru: "Sorry, my hand slipped again."
He glanced at Asayama Rika secretly, feeling a little worried about her who was suffering from frequent setbacks.
At this moment, she looked like she was about to fall apart. She couldn't even stand steadily and was staggering, holding on to the edge of the sofa.
"What a sin." Lin Xi sighed.
"What?" Kamijutsuji didn't hear clearly.
"Nothing." Lin Xi said, "I'm waiting for your answer. You've put on such a 'great' game, and there's a ready audience here. Can you resist your urge to perform?"
Kamijutsuji Shin looked at Lin Xi with his venomous eyes.
What puzzled him was that in the dim light, he could not see any fear on Lin Xi's face, only pure curiosity.
"Indeed." He spoke slowly, his voice like a venomous snake. "People have the right to know how they died."
"As I said, revenge is my only goal."
"Haha, I used to be a happy person in the secular sense. Asayama Onto, Asayama Kei, Tomihara Taro, Ooyama Takumi, Tsukawa Hideji, and you, Mizutani Sayuri... It's you who pushed me to this point."
"Atsuto Asayama murdered my parents, and everyone thought it was an accident, except me."
"They were killed by a drunk driver who crashed into my parents' car on a rainy night. The driver was a widower with no children, and was particularly close only to a niece. He was later convicted of traffic hazard, not murder, but shortly after being sentenced, before he even entered prison, he hanged himself due to what he described as 'excessive guilt and psychological pressure.' However, after his suicide, a large sum of money appeared in the account of a distant relative, and after several transfers, this money ended up in the hands of his niece."
"But when I asked the police to investigate, I received no help, even though I pointed out the suspicious points to them."
Lin Xi: "Do you think this is a murder for hire?"
Kamijutsuji Shin: "It's obvious, isn't it? A hired killer must have discovered something my parents shouldn't have. I've been investigating their work and the driver for a long time, and finally found some useful clues."
"Behind them is a vast criminal chain, and the Asayama Group bears the brunt of this chain. Every year, a large amount of money from unknown sources flows into the Asayama Group, but for so long, it has never been exposed. My parents both worked in accounting for the Asayama Group. They accidentally discovered a discrepancy in the accounts and discovered a secret within the Asayama Group. Thinking it was an accounting error, they reported it to their superiors. However, on their way back from overtime work the next day, they encountered an 'accident' and died in a car accident."
"In order to prevent them from revealing their secrets forever, they were silenced by the Asayama Group."
"When I realized this, I also realized that I couldn't avenge my parents through normal channels."
"Not only that, I couldn't even let on that I knew my parents were murdered. Otherwise, I'd be silenced like them."
"I still have to accept the hypocritical kindness of those enemies, and accept their condolences and financial support."
Kamijutsuji Shin tilted his head, the murderous intent in his eyes growing stronger as he spoke. "But this also benefited me. To maintain their image as good people in front of others, the Asayama couple funded my schooling, promised me a job, and allowed me to continue working at their company. This made it much easier for me to investigate them."
"The entire Asayama Group is part of a criminal chain. There's an organization behind them, a massive one—they control one of Japan's largest banks, as well as several leading companies and groups."
"Taro Tomihara is the president of one of those banks."
"He has had a long-term, private, and improper cooperation with the Asayama Group."
"There's nothing wrong with Qianshan Group's accounts on the surface. It's just that he's cooperating with them to falsify the accounts."
Lin Xi: "So, he is also in your revenge plan."
Kamijutsuji smiled and said, "That's right."
"If they can hire assassins, then that so-called 'huge organization' must also have assassins and people who clean up afterward, like 'cleaners,' right?" Lin Xi said. "I guess you later found out who was responsible for that part?"
Kamijutsuji pursed his lips.
He really didn't like the way Sayuri Mizutani looked now.
She was clearly the one at a disadvantage, so why was she so calm and composed? And her eyes… there was no fear at all, only curiosity. Kamijutsuji even saw pity in them—the pity of the strong for the weak.
Looking at him like that, it was as if his revenge was just a joke to give her more topics of conversation and fun at the tea table.
It's really abominable...
As he thought about this, he continued, "There's a security company in Yokohama—the kind that's ostensibly a security company. They've long supplied security personnel to the Asayama Group. In reality, they're actually part of the Yokohama underworld, and they're responsible for some of the dirty work that's not allowed to be seen in public."
"Hideji Tsukawa is the head of the security company."
Lin Xi nodded: "I see. Where is Qiu Shanjiang?"
"Qiu Shanjiang..." Kamijutsuji's eyes narrowed, "My parents didn't die immediately after they were hit by the car."
"They struggled for at least five minutes."
"And Qiu Shanjiang, despite clearly seeing my parents, chose to turn a blind eye."
"If he had called an ambulance in time, my parents might not have died..."
"But you also said," Lin Xi shrugged, "the purpose of that 'organization' is to silence people. Even if your parents survived at that time, they would later -"
“——That was after that!” Kamijutsuji Shin suddenly roared loudly.
It was completely different from the soft whispers she had spoken before; it was practically a roar. The sound echoed in the empty room, and Lin Xi blinked innocently.
Kamijutsuji breathed a sigh of relief and forced himself to calm down: "So, he came here too."
"I understand. Then...what about me?" Lin Xi smiled sweetly. "What role does Mizutani Sayuri play in this?"
Kamijutsuji Xin looked at Lin Xi coldly and uttered one word: "Broker. Mizutani Sayuri, you are the most important person——"
"It was you who introduced Tomihara Taro to the Asayamas. It was you who introduced the Yokohama underworld to them. And it was you who suggested silencing my parents when the Asayama Group informed you that they had discovered the company's secrets."
So, you still dare to act innocent and pretend that you know nothing?
Don't you know how much I hate you?
"Is that true?" Lin Xi raised her eyebrows. "I'm sorry, I really don't remember—"
Bang.
Lin Xi tilted her head in time, and the bullet grazed her cheek and hit the display screen. Behind her came a crackling sound of the screen shattering.
Lin Xi decided to keep his mouth shut for the time being.
Sayuri Mizutani, you are such an evil villain.
Look at what you've done to the child.
"Don't worry." Kamijutsuji Xin felt relieved when he saw Lin Xi finally put away her irritatingly careless attitude. "You will die, but not now."
"Now, let me explain how I attracted all of you here."
"Let's start with Asayama Atsuto and Asayama Hui. I once visited their home and discovered something very interesting. Haha, Asayama Hui had actually been giving her husband a slow-acting poison! When I discovered this, I was genuinely shocked."
"In the vast Asayama Group, the powerful Asayama Atsuto appears to be the boss, but the real boss is the seemingly virtuous Asayama Kei. Asayama Kei is using poison and some other method—I have some suspicions about this, but I've never had the opportunity to confirm it—to control Asayama Atsuto."
"Asayama Onto's health has always been poor, and Asayama Hui has never wanted him to recover."
"But outwardly, they still had to maintain their relationship as a couple. So I had Yuejiang and Mei spread the news of the 'miracle drug' among their social circles. Sure enough, when others asked them about it, they showed obvious interest and then arranged to come here."
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