In a small rental apartment in Tokyo, Japan, a woman with short blond hair was standing in the kitchen. The kitchen knife in her hand kept lifting and falling on the cutting board, making a clanging sound.
"Sister, I'm back."
The door behind her was pushed open, and another blond woman walked in, holding two bags in her hands. One bag contained the fresh meat she had just bought, and the other bag contained milk tea and milk she bought for herself. All kinds of puffed junk food.
"Well, meat."
Carrying the bag of meat into the kitchen, Carly stood behind Akai Marie, drinking milk tea and tilting her head to watch her chopping vegetables.
"Carly, you bought those junk foods again." Akai Marie didn't look back. Just by listening to the voice, she could tell what was in her other bag.
"Occasionally, occasionally..." Carly smiled without any remorse.
"Is there a deviation in our understanding of the word 'occasionally'? Can once a day also be called occasionally?"
After taking out the fresh meat from the bag and cleaning it, Mary turned her back to her and sounded helpless.
"Eating these things all day long will cumulatively cause your figure to get out of shape... No wonder you are in your twenties and still can't get married. You can lift your clothes and pinch yourself to see how much weight you have gained during this time. "
"It's not that I can't get married! I just don't want to get married!"
Carly rightly corrected Akai Marie's wrong remarks.
"What's so good about being married? When you suddenly get married to a man, you not only have to wash, cook, and take care of the housework for him, but you also have to give birth to a baby for him in ten months. Then you have to do housework while competing with the baby. Yong’s painful life would be even worse if my husband’s temperament is bad. What’s even more terrifying is if my husband despises me and keeps playing outside all night long. In the end, he is deceived by his gangster friends and we still can’t pay him back. If you are in debt, it will really be a hell of a life..."
Carly said while sipping milk tea, thinking about the future she described in her mind, and her face couldn't help but turn pale.
Akai Marie, on the other hand, looked back at her with hesitation, opened her mouth, wanted to say a lot, but in the end she just sighed softly.
"You kid, didn't I tell you to watch less of those modern romance dramas from the Big Rabbit's House next door? Those things are too contrary to social norms, and watching too much can easily lead to your intelligence..."
Mary couldn't help but be a little worried. With how stupid this stupid kid was about the emotions between men and women, she wouldn't really be tricked into having children by some bad man in the future, would she?
Akai Marie and Sera Kali.
Although the two were nominally sisters because Carly was adopted by Mary's natal Sera family, to Mary, she felt more like she had an extra daughter.
The reason is simple, she is almost twice Carly's age.
When she and Shirakawa Kiyoshi rescued Carly from terrorists ten years ago, Carly was only a teenager. Even ten years later, she was still in her twenties, several years younger than Mari's eldest son Akai Shuichi. Isn't this an extra daughter?
Fortunately, this child is very obedient. Unlike Mary's uneasy eldest son, Carly never disobeys Mary's words, except for some weird hobbies...
"I only take a look occasionally..." Being directly touched by Mary, Carly looked away subconsciously, feeling a little guilty.
"It seems that our definition of the word 'occasionally' is indeed quite different." Mary said while cutting the meat.
"If you meet someone you want to get married in the future, bring it to me first and I will check it for you."
After thinking about it, Mary added this sentence.
"I really like to take care of things..." Carly complained, but she didn't refuse.
"Okay, don't talk about me anymore. Your eldest son is hiding somewhere. I went out for a walk and couldn't find him."
She went out to buy groceries just by the way. Carly actually walked around the amusement park in order to find Akai Shuichi, who had appeared in the amusement park this morning.
That's right, after stealing the surveillance footage from the amusement park, Mary recognized it at first sight. The mysterious man in the footage who abducted Miyano Akemi was her son Akai Shuichi.
Good guy, he sneaked into Japan and didn't even answer his mother's phone calls. Was it just to steal women?
Mary was not very clear about the relationship between Miyano Akemi and Akai Shuichi. After all, Akai Shuichi never mentioned this girl when he reported the situation to his FBI superiors during his years in the undercover organization.
But judging from Akai Shuichi’s action of snatching people directly on the spot this time, there should be some kind of special relationship between the two people...
Thinking of this, Mary, who had been there before, sighed worriedly.
"Sister, don't worry too much."
Noticing her expression, Carly, who had already started eating junk food, wiped her mouth and comforted: "Shuichi is very strong, and he is not the kind of person whose judgment will be swayed by emotions. I believe he will be fine."
"I hope so..." Mary nodded. Even so, her mother's instinct still made her worry that Shuichi Akai would fall into the trap of the black organization.
We must find that child quickly...
"I'm more worried about you than Xiuyi." Carly said suddenly.
"Why do you say that?"
Mary asked suspiciously over her shoulder, while Carly took the opportunity to stuff a potato chip into her mouth.
"Isn't this obvious? They are all over fifty years old, but they are still running around outside all day long."
Chewing potato chips, Carly sat on the cupboard and said in a relaxed tone.
"I'm really worried that you will suddenly collapse one day..."
Mary just looks very young. After all, even her eldest son is in his thirties, so how can he be young?
People like this who are extremely talented and well-maintained are the most likely to grow old instantly due to a sudden blow.
A sudden blow...
Guessing the meaning of Carly's words, Mary turned back to continue cutting the meat and said, "There are still some things that haven't been answered yet. Before that, I can't just stop, right?"
"Well, I don't care. After all, I'm still young. It doesn't matter if I continue to look for you for a few more decades with my sister. It's just that you, sister, have already invested a lot of time in these things... Is it really worth it? ?”
Mary turned her back to her and remained silent without answering. The only sound in the kitchen was the sound of the kitchen knife hitting the cutting board and the sound of Carly chewing junk food.
"Would you like to talk to me now?" Carly suddenly said.
"What do you want to talk about?" Mary asked.
"For example, how did you and Bai He meet?"
Among the two people who are very important to Mary, her husband Akai Mbutukali has never been seen, so she doesn’t know much about her.
But she had seen Bai Heqing with her own eyes. He was an extremely special man.
"What's there to talk about?"
Mary smiled and shook her head.
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(End of chapter)
