Tokyo: Starting with taking on his wife's debts

However, the sole heir, Kenichiro Tamaki, harbors ill intentions towards her, and the pressure from the organization's members is immense.

At this moment, the car had already driven into the hospital's underground parking lot on the third basement level, and the bearded driver was looking for a parking space.

"Is he upstairs?" Xiuming asked casually, taking the bank card. "Is he waiting to discuss business with you?"

"Heh... I'm not qualified!" Funakawa Yoshiko sneered twice. "He's probably plotting something with Kenichiro!"

Who is Kenichiro?

"You don't really think Ichiro Fukai chopped off the heir's little finger, do you?"

The account given by Daisuke was all part of a play performed by Fukai Ichiro and Toshu, except that they chopped off the little finger of a younger brother who was short of money.

Ichiro Fukai still wanted to get involved in the arms, pharmaceutical, and organ trade.

As for Hideaki, in his eyes he was nothing more than a pretty boy who had bewitched Yoko Ezaki.

Let's get rid of him easily. It will also deal a blow to Yoko Ezaki, since Yoko Ezaki dismissed him from his post, making him lose face and unable to hold his head up in front of his underlings.

Yoshiko Funakawa was merely a substitute pushed out by Kenichiro, a show put on for the "Yamagaigumi" to facilitate Ichiro Fukai's rise to power.

By the time Yoko Ezaki's fleet returned, it was too late.

"Mr. Hideaki, would you like to come upstairs?"

Funakawa Yoshiko opened the car door, and as she spoke, she opened the storage box under the adjacent sofa seat and took out a fruit basket. The fruit basket was decorated quite exquisitely, containing strawberries, bananas, watermelons, cantaloupes...

After Xiuming successfully transferred money to Funakawa Yoshiko using the phone in the car, her overall appearance seemed to improve significantly, and even her way of addressing her changed.

After parking the car, they chatted in the car until 11 o'clock.

“Of course I have to go up. I still need to meet with Mr. Fukai Ichiro, since he wants to kill me.” Hideaki jumped out of the car first, then paused and turned back to say, “It would be best if we arranged for him to be in the next room. I want to watch him secretly.”

Hideaki wasn't sure if Fukai Ichiro had seen him before, so it was best to secretly track him down. Of course, even if he had seen him, it wouldn't matter.

Would he dare to shoot someone in broad daylight? We live in a society governed by the rule of law. If he really dared, then he's brainless, and I guess I miscalculated.

"Are you worried about my professional skills?" Funakawa Yoshiko was taken aback, a hint of a smile in her eyes. She gestured to the bearded man closing the car door and continued, "Yagami-kun is very professional, you know."

The bearded Katsuya Yagami remained calm.

The parking lot was very quiet. The three of them made a series of footsteps as they entered the elevator.

“Oh, right,” Funakawa Yoshiko whispered, “I hope that only the two of us know about this transfer.”

"Hmm?" Hideaki gestured with his eyes to Katsuya Yagami, who had just pressed the button for the 6th floor elevator.

“He doesn’t count.” Funakawa Yoshiko’s eyes were calm.

Katsuya Yagami remained calm, both in his eyes and his expression.

"Um...may I ask, what is your relationship?" Xiuming asked.

"What's so presumptuous about this?" Funakawa Yoshiko lifted the fruit basket and chuckled. "These are bodyguards the old president arranged for me."

Katsuya Yagami's expression remained calm, and his gaze didn't even waver.

"Oh, may I ask again, what is your relationship with the former president?"

Funakawa Yoshiko's light smile suddenly froze, and she said stiffly, "You're really being presumptuous."

Although it was past 11 p.m., people were still gathered in the corridors of the inpatient ward, many of whom were sleeping on the floor.

However, the VIP area on the sixth floor was very quiet, and the nurses on duty at the nurses' station were several levels more attractive and had better figures.

According to Funakawa Yoshiko, the ward of the former chairman of the "Toshukai" was across from the ward of the former chairman of the "Yamagaigumi". It was during Fukai Ichiro's visit that he and Okitama Kenichiro started talking about it.

The three turned into the stairwell, and as they passed the fire escape, the white fire door suddenly opened, and two men in black suits walked out one after the other, accompanied by a wisp of blue smoke.

Ichiro Fukai, and a thin middle-aged man in his thirties, Kenichiro.

He was about 1.7 meters tall, a little taller than Ichiro Fukai, with thick eyebrows and high cheekbones, and his face was pale and pale, indicating a deficiency of qi and blood.

"Oh, Ms. Miko, you've come to visit my father again?"

Kenichiro's voice carried a lazy, flippant tone. He squinted and scanned Funakawa Yoshiko from head to toe, then his cloudy eyes shifted to Hideaki. His eyebrows twitched slightly, and his gaze sharpened as he asked, "And who is this?"

Ichiro Fukai's expression remained unchanged. His gaze lingered on Yoshiko Funakawa for a moment, then on Hideaki's face, before he nodded slightly to Kenichiro and headed directly towards the ward where the "Yamagaigumi" was located.

He had never met Hideaki Yamanaka.

Xiuming was secretly surprised and speechless. It seemed that he had been treated as an insignificant little thing. It felt good, but he could not rule out the possibility that he was pretending to be blind.

“He is Mr. Miyamoto,” Funakawa Yoshiko said as she walked toward the ward, her eyes filled with obvious distance. “He is my client.”

Funakawa Yoshiko's financial difficulties were no secret, and she was searching everywhere for a wealthy patron who could lend her money.

Often, the patrons didn't trust her abilities, so she would bring them to talk to the old chairman. Of course, usually, once the patrons met the old chairman, there was nothing left to talk about, because the old chairman was nearing his death.

As for the heir Kenichiro, he was happy to see this, but he would not help in the slightest. He had long wanted to take back the property that his father had given to Funakawa Yoshiko, but because of Yagami Katsumi's presence, he dared not force him.

Hideaki followed Funakawa Yoshiko forward without making a sound, and Yagami Katsuya followed as if they were invisible.

Kenichiro remained rooted to the spot until Funakawa Yoshiko reached the door of the ward, at which point a flippant voice drifted over: "Ms. Yoshiko, you have disappointed me greatly today."

"Hmph..." Funakawa Yoshiko snorted and pushed open the ward door.

"Could Funakawa Yoshiko be his stepmother...?" Hideaki wondered to himself. Just as he was about to follow her in, Yagami Katsu stopped him and whispered, "Let's wait outside for a while."

The door to the opposite ward was tightly closed, and behind the transparent glass on the door was Ichiro Fukai's expressionless face; he was openly spying on them.

When Hideaki arrived in Funakawa Yoshiko's car, Fukai Ichiro received a "good news" call from Daisuke, saying that Yoko's men had taken care of things over there. The only bad thing was that the weapons had all been thrown into the septic tank, and they had lost a brother who had voluntarily been arrested to take the blame.

Fukai Ichiro simply said "I understand," and after hanging up the phone, he smashed his old mobile phone in front of his father's sickbed and stomped on it a few times.

Only one was lost?! Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of weaponry, thrown into a septic tank?!

Fukai Ichiro was very decisive. His plan was to have the police wipe out all the people in the store who supported Ezaki Yoko, preferably in the form of a gunfight, and also take out a group of people from the "Dongzhou Society".

He learned all his information about Hideaki from Kitaro.

Kitaro said that Yoko Ezaki has a boyfriend, a supermarket owner who is quite handsome. Yoko Ezaki is infatuated with him and is now willing to provide him with goods at any cost so that he can't live without her...

"You're crazy! You're a fangirl! You're useless! You don't deserve to be a team leader!"

This was Ichiro Fukai's first reaction upon learning the news.

Of course, after Daisuke's "good news" call, he had some doubts:

Where would a small supermarket owner get the money to help Kenichiro's stepmother solve her financial difficulties? It's not a small amount...

He regretted not investigating Xiuming's background; he didn't even know what he looked like.

Chapter 152 Such family scandals are truly embarrassing.

After entering the ward, Funakawa Yoshiko did not close the door completely; it was left ajar.

The ward was spacious and bright.

A beautiful and professional-looking nurse is administering an IV to an elderly man lying in a hospital bed with his eyes closed, wearing a hospital gown.

Skin and bones, right...

Funakawa Yoshiko walked to the bedside, placed the fruit basket on the bedside table, then knelt down beside the bed, looked at the old man, and said nothing.

Xiuming looked through the glass in the door for a while, then grew a little impatient.

What am I here for? To ensure that Fukai Ichiro, who lives in the ward across the street, passes away.

Fukai Ichiro was no longer standing behind the door; he was standing next to the window facing the ward door, smoking with his back to the door.

Beside him was a trembling nurse, and on the other side of the nurse was a hospital bed covered by a transparent frame, on which lay Esaki Sekikawa, wearing a ventilator.

He is Yoko Ezaki's uncle, Kitaro Ezaki's biological father, Satsuki Ezaki's younger brother, and Ichiro Fukai's best friend.

Kenichiro was still at the fire door of the fire escape staircase when he asked a nurse at the nurses' station to bring him a small stool—one of those pink plastic stools shaped like children's stools, which nurses usually use to sneak around in blind spots of the surveillance cameras to slack off.

He placed the small stool in the corner of the wall, sat down, crossed his legs, and looked over here with a thoughtful expression.

Hideaki gestured towards the fire door of another fire escape staircase on the floor and asked, "Mr. Yagami, would you like to rest there for a while?"

With only ten minutes left until midnight, they'll definitely be targeting Ichiro Fukai.

I'd like to inquire about Yagami Katsuki's plans and how he intends to proceed.

Based on his action plan and the intelligence obtained after locking onto Fukai Ichiro, we can know whether he succeeded, failed, or was counterattacked. For example, after locking onto the intelligence, we can watch the real-time intelligence content to fill in any gaps in Yagami Katsu's plan.

Success is achieved when the intelligence report includes the message, "[Ichiro Fukai will die sometime in the next 12 hours]".

Katsuya Yagami glanced sideways at Kenichiro and said, "Sorry, I'm not tired."

"Really? That's a shame."

Okay, let's just say he's carrying out a secret operation to avoid getting involved!

Should we lock him in?

"Hey, Mr. Miyamoto, over here! Come over here!" Kenichiro, who was sitting on a small stool, straightened up, raised his arm, and waved a cigarette pack in his hand. "Want to talk?"

"Mr. Yagami, excuse me for a moment," Hideaki said, waving in response.

Xiuming passed by the nurses' station and asked a nurse for a small stool, but there were no short ones left, so he had to take a taller adult chair.

"Mr. Kenichiro, nice to meet you!"

The two shook hands as a greeting. Hideaki sat down in a chair, and Kenichiro sat back down on a small stool. When he looked up at Hideaki, his face suddenly stiffened, and he looked very embarrassed and annoyed.

It's a stool like a child's, and since the person isn't very tall, they have to tilt their head back to talk.

Kenichiro stood up from the small stool again, opened the white fire door of the fire escape, and said, "Mr. Miyamoto, shall we go over there for a smoke?"

“Excuse me, I don’t smoke. Why don’t you sit over there for a while?” Hideaki gestured to the row of benches in the hallway, picked up a chair, and continued, “I wonder what Mr. Kenichiro wants to talk to me about?”

"It was just a casual chat," Kenichiro said dismissively, "I hope you won't find it amusing, Mr. Miyamoto."

"What do you mean, 'please excuse my rudeness'?"

"As you can see, I am thirty-six years old this year, with both a son and a daughter. The woman in the ward is actually my stepmother, who is twenty-eight years old. Such a family scandal is truly embarrassing."

Although he said this, his expression didn't seem particularly embarrassed, after all, many wealthy and powerful families were like this.

It's probably just a self-deprecating opening remark to try and get closer to the other person.

Of course, he didn't look too good either; after all, for a man who cares about his image, it was quite embarrassing.

As Funakawa Yoshiko had previously requested, she wanted the matter of lending her money to be kept secret. Judging from this, Funakawa Yoshiko is truly disliked by her stepson, and perhaps she's planning a desperate counterattack...