"Aiko, please go back to your room and play for a while."
In the living room, after putting Aiko away, Momonogi Mina made tea from the kitchen and brought it to the table. She looked at Hoshimiya Miki who was sitting on the sofa, her expression full of apology and embarrassment.
"Xinggong Police, I'm sorry, you clearly helped me last time, but I still didn't remember you."
"It's okay. After all, I'm not wearing a police uniform. I'm visiting after get off work."
Hoshinomiya Miki smiled slightly, pushed the photo on the table towards Momonogi Mina again and said in a condensed voice.
"Dexian Boye, you should know this person, right?"
"Um."
Looking at the greasy middle-aged man with a big belly in the photo, Momono Mina still felt a little scared.
"He is my husband's creditor. He just paid off the debt owed to him with the help of Bai Zejun some time ago."
"Star Palace Police, what's wrong with him?"
"Just call me Miss Hoshinomiya."
Hoshimiya Miki put away the photo, glanced at Momonogi Mina and Hanekawa Shirasawa sitting opposite, and her expression suddenly became extremely serious.
"He is involved in a very large underground gambling gang. I need to know about his situation now."
gamble?
Underground gang?
Could it be that he is a Japanese gangster?
Hanekawa Shirasawa couldn't help but look slightly stunned. It was difficult for him to connect the pig-headed, greasy man in the photo with the Japanese gangsters whose members had dragons and tigers tattooed on their backs.
Could it be that he also switched to selling milk tea?
"gamble?"
Hearing these two words, Momo Nogi Mina trembled in response, and then her pupils suddenly shrank as if she thought of something.
"Miss Hoshinomiya, you said this person is involved in gambling?"
"right."
Miki Hoshinomiya stared at Momonogi Mina's beautiful eyes full of surprise and said softly.
"Your husband Momonogi Yuya, after losing money in gambling at the casino where Tokukan Hiroya was working, borrowed money from them at high interest rates, and was ultimately unable to repay his debt and committed suicide by jumping off a building."
"..."
Hearing these words, Momonogi Mina covered her mouth with her hands in shock, her beautiful eyes widened with a look of disbelief.
"You mean, my husband was tricked into gambling?"
"No, your husband is a complete gambler. He was just trapped by them."
Hoshimiya Miki's calm voice revealed her deep disgust for Momono Mina's husband.
"Even if your husband is not lent usury here, he will borrow it from somewhere else. His life is full of failures and mistakes. The only thing he did right was to commit suicide by jumping off the building."
Hey, can't you use a more euphemistic expression?
It’s okay to replace “suicide by jumping off a building” with “stop losses in time”!
Feeling the trembling delicate body of Momonogi Mina, Hanekawa Shirasawa quickly held her shoulders and comforted her softly. After her excitement subsided for a while, she looked at Hoshinomiya Miki who was sitting opposite.
"Then the money I gave him last time didn't become the funds to fund their crimes?"
"This is my fault."
Hoshimiya Miki sighed softly, picked up the tea cup and took a sip before speaking softly.
"I had just taken over the position of director, and I didn't know much about the situation of the people living nearby. Plus, at the time, he didn't seem like someone who would join an underground gambling gang, so I took it lightly."
"In this matter, I apologize to you, I'm sorry."
"Miss Hoshinomiya, you don't have to apologize."
Momonogi Mina quickly dissuaded Hoshimiya Miki from bowing.
"How can I help you?"
"Can you tell me about your husband's life?"
"Including where he usually goes when he goes gambling, what time he goes there, what time he comes back, and whether there are any companions like this."
"Um……"
Momonogi Mina began to speak slowly while recalling, and from time to time she would answer some questions raised by Hoshimiya Miki.
Seeing this, Hanekawa Shirasawa wisely left quietly to give the two of them a certain amount of space, and then knocked on Aiko's door.
"Aiko, are you there?"
"Please come in."
"Crack——!"
Turning the doorknob, Hanekawa Shirasawa pushed the door open and walked in. He found that Aiko was still sitting upright on the bed as before, quietly reading the book in his hand. Only after he came in did he politely raise his head and close the book. Say hello.
"Brother Baize."
"Aiko, why do you like reading this kind of book?"
Looking at the "Dancing Girl of Izu" on Aiko's lap, Hanekawa Shirasawa couldn't help but feel curious.
"You can't understand, right? Of course I didn't mean anything else."
"I know, Brother Bai Ze."
After Aiko put the book back on the bookshelf, she turned to look at Hanekawa Shirasawa and said softly.
"Because I want to know more about my mom's world."
Your mother's world is much different from this kind of book, isn't it?
Hanekawa Shirize complained in his heart, but he didn't say it out loud. Instead, he sat directly on the floor, put his hands on the carpet and chuckled.
"It seems that you love your mother very much, Aiko."
"of course!"
Aiko raised her face proudly, but her expression suddenly became disappointed again. She lowered her eyelids and sighed softly as she looked at her legs that kept shaking.
"But since my beastly father died, my mother has been taking care of me by herself, which is very hard."
"If only she had someone to rely on, alas!"
Please stop hinting!
No, this is already made clear!
Hanekawa Shirasawa moved his body to Aiko's feet, looked at her face full of loneliness from bottom to top and said firmly.
"I will take good care of Aunt Mina. You can rest assured about this, my dear."
"real?"
Although he had received many promises from Hanekawa Shirasawa, Aiko was obviously a little excited this time. She jumped off the bed and threw herself into his arms, laughing.
"Thank you, Dad!"
"Hey!"
You can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately!
My wife and I haven't had anything to do before you started calling me daddy.
wrong!
The focus shouldn’t be on this kind of place!
I'm going to be a father at the age of eighteen?
Hanekawa Shirasawa shook his head with a smile, then gently stroked Aiko's silky hair, licked his lips on the hair shaft and asked softly after some tangles.
"Um...Aiko, can I ask something about your father?"
"I don't have a father."
Aiko suddenly raised his little face and his expression became extremely serious.
"I only have my mother. I was raised by my mother. My father never took care of me. He only took money from home and beat and scolded my mother."
Beat and scold your wife?
When Hanekawa Shirasawa heard this for the first time, he looked shocked and at the same time, a strong anger suddenly emerged in his heart, and his eyes became much colder.
What a beast!
If I had known, I would have spat on the wedding photos of him and his wife!
wrong!
There's also a wife up there.
In this case, let's find an opportunity to cut him off.
He doesn't deserve to be in the same picture frame with his wife!
Hanekawa Shirasawa secretly made up his mind.
