The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 720 Hope and Despair (23)

Today's theme color is gray. The sky is covered with a thick layer of clouds, making the air stuffy. Fortunately, it didn't take long before a drizzle began to fall. The raindrops hit the tombstones, making a few sounds, making the cemetery no longer seem so deserted.

Inuyama Heita was holding an umbrella, standing blankly in front of a tombstone. There was a bouquet of flowers on the tombstone, which seemed to have been placed there by him before. He didn't know how long he had been standing here, but no one would have the time to disturb him.

It was not until it was getting dark that Inuyama Heita turned around and left the cemetery.

What he didn't know was that when he stood in front of the tombstone, there was a man quietly watching him from a distance. He didn't even open an umbrella because he was afraid of being discovered.

The man watched Inuyama Heita leave step by step, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. He took a deep breath, as if to cheer himself up. Then he plucked up his courage, took out the bouquet he had prepared long ago, came to the tombstone where Inuyama Heita had stood before, and presented the bouquet he had prepared.

"Mayuko... Heita has grown up." The man squatted in front of the tombstone, closed his eyes, clasped his hands together, muttered something, and let the raindrops fall on him.

"He grew up peacefully, just like his name. Although he recently worked in a detective agency, the boss doesn't seem to be a bad person. I asked other people and the detective seems to have a good reputation..."

"Oh? Thank you for the compliment, but I'm not a detective, Mr. Inuyama Jun."

The man's body trembled and he became quiet. He opened his eyes and found that there was a transparent umbrella above his head. The Chinese man named Qian Xiaoyi was standing behind him, holding the umbrella for him to keep out the rain.

"You..." The man panicked. He stood up immediately, but because of the rain, he stepped on the slippery bricks and fell to the ground.

"Am I that scary?" Qian Xiaoyi shook his head and stretched out his hand to the other person, trying to pull him up.

"I... I'm not Inuyama Jun! You've got the wrong person!" The man did not grab Qian Xiaoyi's hand, but covered his face, stood up and wanted to escape.

Qian Xiaoyi looked at the other party's embarrassing escape and did not stop him. He just said, "Is this really okay? You are obviously concerned about his condition, right? Don't you want to hear about his recent situation before leaving? I have been investigating for a long time in order to report to you as a parent."

The man stopped, his back to Qian Xiaoyi. He was silent for a while, then said, "I... I am not worthy of being his father. It is enough to know that he is doing well now. I cannot appear in front of him, which will trouble him... Just treat me as dead. Anyway, thank you for taking care of Pingtai."

"Oh? Really? You think he's doing well recently? Who told you that?" Qian Xiaoyi said, "You know, that guy has been very distressed and angry recently because... he already knows the connection between him and the Hope Church."

"?!" The man turned around in disbelief, looked at Qian Xiaoyi, and shouted in surprise: "He knows?!"

"Yeah, I see." Qian Xiaoyi looked at the weather and said, "This isn't a good place to chat. Let's find a place where we can hide from the rain and chat."

“……”The man hesitated.

Qian Xiaoyi added: "Ping Tai doesn't know you are here." The man breathed a sigh of relief: "...I know, I'll go with you."

After a while, they came to a nearby fast food restaurant. The man sat on the seat, soaking wet, his movements were a little awkward, and he seemed a little embarrassed.

Qian Xiaoyi ordered a set meal for him, including French fries, hamburgers, etc. Judging from his appearance, he probably hadn't had a proper meal for a while.

"Thank you..." The man took a bite of the burger. The smell of fried chicken and grease made him squint his eyes. He choked a little and quickly took a sip of Coke and swallowed it. Then, he put down the burger, looked at Qian Xiaoyi, and asked, "I... I am indeed Inuyama Heita's father. How did you find me?"

"Ever since Heita ran into you at the horse racing track that day, I've been asking people to look for you." Qian Xiaoyi took out the photo that Kuroda's friend had taken earlier, handed it to Inuyama Jun, and said, "Do you remember this photo? I asked a friend to take it before."

Inuyama Jun looked at the photo in confusion and said, "But... I clearly escaped and changed my residence..."

"There is a part that is not captured in the photo. The direction you were looking at was a flower shop." Qian Xiaoyi said, "I asked around and found out that you always looked at the door for a while during that period, so I thought of the anniversary of Pingtai's mother's death."

"As expected of a detective..." Inuyama Jun lowered his head and smiled bitterly: "I really can't hide it from you."

Qian Xiaoyi's eyelids twitched, but he didn't argue with him about such a boring topic.

"So, does Heita really know about the Hope Sect?" Inuyama Jun lowered his head and asked, "He...how did he know?"

Qian Xiaoyi said: "The commission I recently took on involved that evil cult, which caused some trouble, so they wanted to deal with me, and then they wanted to start with the people around me."

"So they found Heita? Is he okay?" Inuyama Jun stood up, causing everyone else in the fast food restaurant to look at him. Inuyama Jun immediately reacted, sat down and said, "I'm an idiot. I saw him just now. I'm glad he's okay."

Qian Xiaoyi looked at the other party's reaction and thought that he probably didn't know what happened recently, so he said, "It's just that nothing happened for the time being. In fact, I think he might go and seek revenge on the other party."

"No, no! No way!" Inuyama Jun became agitated again: "Their power is too great. He can't do it alone! Please stop him!"

"What's the reason?" Qian Xiaoyi said, "To put it bluntly, I'm just his part-time boss, not even his guardian. What qualifications do I have to stop him? Shouldn't this kind of thing be done by his real guardian - you?"

"I..." Inuyama Jun said hesitantly, "I should not appear in his life anymore. I have already ruined the first half of his life. I cannot ruin the rest of his life..."

"So, what happened in the first place?" Qian Xiaoyi asked aggressively, "Why are you supposed to be a successful person, able to send Pingtai to a good school and live in an apartment in a good location, but now you are in such a miserable state? You are in Tokyo, but you dare not recognize your son?"

(End of this chapter)