Tokyo: Starting with taking on his wife's debts

Funakawa Yoshiko's figure was faintly visible as she stood by the well in the courtyard.

Xiuming's heart clenched instinctively, then she suddenly remembered that the well opening was sealed with cement and was too small for a person to jump into. She was speechless at her sudden anxiety, guessing that she had invested too much sunk cost in her these past two days...

"She can come back if she wants, or it doesn't matter if she doesn't," Xiuming said loudly while drinking water. "My wife would never throw such a tantrum!"

Don't give her a nice look, or she'll take advantage of you.

How could you be so heartless? Weren't you treating her so well during the day?

Umezu Midori was conflicted; he was both a jerk and a responsible man, and she couldn't bring herself to hate him... Souichi gave her a push on the shoulder and said, "Go find her! During the day, she only has eyes for you. Don't women need to be coaxed?"

"What do you mean by coaxing me?" Xiuming glared and shouted, "You did something wrong and you need someone to coax you? It's good enough that you don't make her come over to apologize to me."

Yoshiko Funakawa suddenly turned around and walked into the darkness.

Xiuming quickly put down his water glass and ran out of the room, saying, "You go to sleep by yourself, I have to go after you..."

Umezu Midori was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing.

It's really dark in the countryside at 11 p.m., and there's no moon yet. Running out like this, with the roads slippery and uneven, it would probably hurt a lot if I fell into a ditch...

What reassured Xiuming was that there were streetlights in the village. Funakawa Miko walked under the lights, but the streetlights could only illuminate a small area. The surrounding area was pitch black, and there were birds chirping in the mountains and forests.

She was still wearing that black kimono, with wooden clogs on her feet, and her white socks were soaked with mud.

The road underfoot was made of cement and had puddles. She deliberately stepped into the puddles, and had already stepped into twenty-one puddles.

"Where are you going?"

Xiuming followed her two steps away, counting the puddles, growing impatient.

"That's none of your business."

Funakawa Yoshiko didn't turn her head.

"Do you know you were wrong?" Xiuming plucked a blade of grass from the roadside and put it in his mouth, then said, "If you say you were wrong, we can still be friends, and I'll take you home."

"What did I do wrong? You liar!" Funakawa Yoshiko paused, turned around abruptly, and shouted, "You've completely offended me, and I'll make you pay!"

"Are you threatening me?" Xiuming stepped in front of her, hands on his hips, looking down at her angry face. "In this desolate place, on a dark and windy midnight, you, a woman on your period with a fever, are threatening me, a healthy, sexually frustrated man. What are you thinking?"

"Are you crazy! Shameless!" Funakawa Yoshiko was stunned for a moment, then punched Teruaki in the chest, shouted, turned around, and ran away with a "splat, splat" sound. "I'm going to imprison you in a secret room and whip you a hundred times a day to vent my anger..."

Xiuming smiled and said, "Let's not even talk about whether we can do it or not, let's just sue her for attempted illegal detention!"

Her destination was the hospital, the only place still open.

It's midnight, time to lock in!

Sometime within the next 12 hours, Funakawa Yoshiko will call Yagami Katsuyuki.

Hideaki glanced at the first piece of intelligence and was taken aback: Is this for real? They're sending Yagami Katsuyuki to arrest me?

[Sometime within the next 12 hours, Funakawa Yoshiko worries about Yagami Katsuyuki's life or death.]

Ha! I knew this gay guy wasn't up to par; I guess he didn't manage to get away cleanly after messing with Fukai Ichiro.

[Sometime within the next 12 hours, Funakawa Yoshiko fears being assassinated by Fukai Jiro.]

Uh? Fukai Ichiro's younger brother?

Hideaki pondered: Fukai Jiro, to avenge his brother's death, hunted down Yagami Katsu... Then, through Yagami Katsu, Fukai Jiro connected with Funakawa Yoshiko, and then began his revenge... Then Funakawa Yoshiko started worrying about this and that.

That should be the logic.

Let's follow Funakawa Yoshiko and see how she calls Yagami, who's gay!

Chapter 166: The Assassin's Tragic Experience

Two days ago, when Katsuya Yagami left the hospital to assassinate Ichiro Fukai, Hideaki told him that Fukai had returned to the pachinko parlor. Based on this information, he abandoned the car bomb method and instead opted for a trap.

Before this, Fukai Ichiro had made an agreement with Funakawa Yoshiko, in which she would give her many shops if she helped him kill Yamanaka Hideaki. Therefore, Yagami Katsumi, as Funakawa Yoshiko's bodyguard, had photos of Hideaki.

This also made it easier for Yagami Katsu to use the pretext of killing Yamanaka Hideaki to directly contact Fukai Ichiro.

The roles are simply reversed: instead of accepting Ichiro Fukai's request to kill Hideaki Yamanaka, it becomes accepting Hideaki Yamanaka's request to kill Ichiro Fukai.

Things went incredibly smoothly.

Fukai Ichiro had no suspicions about Yagami Katsu's sudden visit and even warmly invited him into the pachinko parlor's private office.

Katsuya Yagami secretly observed the office. There was no one else there; it was very secluded, and there was a secret room for storing weapons. He also remembered that when he came in, all the shop's underlings had left, and apart from Ichiro Fukai, no one had seen him. This was simply a golden opportunity.

So, under the guise of handing over a photo of Hideaki Yamanaka, he put Ichiro Fukai in a chokehold armbar, and within seconds, Fukai went limp.

Killing someone is easy; the difficult part is disposing of the body.

However, it would be much easier for Katsuya Yagami, because there was a secret room in his office where weapons were stored. He could stuff Ichiro Fukai into the weapons box in the secret room. Even if he found out later, it would be after the body had decomposed for more than ten days.

Just as Yagami Katsumi had suffocated Fukai Ichiro to death, stuffed him into a large wooden box, and was about to leave, a series of footsteps and sounds of beatings and groans came from outside the office door.

Katsuya Yagami originally wanted to find a gun in the secret room for self-defense, but the secret room contained only empty boxes and dry straw.

To avoid accidentally getting locked in the secret room, he would quickly close the door, climb onto the top of the cabinet in the corner of the office, and crouch in the corner to secretly observe.

A short while later, the office door was smashed open by Daisuke, who was wailing and begging for mercy.

Daisuke was already bruised and swollen, and his right wrist was still bandaged and hanging from his neck. This was because when he used his right hand to grab the Desert Eagle to show off, he was shaken and suffered a slight fracture and sprain.

The one who beat up Daisuke was Fukai Ichiro's younger brother, Fukai Jiro.

The reason was that Daisuke followed Hideaki's advice and destroyed all the weapons hidden in the store, and dumped them into the septic tank.

This infuriated Fukai Jiro, who had gone out to collect human organs in preparation for trading them, and then came to the store to pick up some high-powered guns and ammunition to bolster his courage.

Jiro Fukai grabbed Daisuke by the hair, threw him to the door of the secret room, and roared at him: "Either find a gun in the secret room, or jump into the septic tank and fish it out."

The closet where Katsutoshi Yagami was crouching was not high at all. The soles of his leather shoes touched Jiro Fukai's hair several times. If he had just raised his eyelids, he would have been discovered. Fortunately, no one raised their eyelids.

Daisuke was beaten quite badly, and he probably had a sliver of hope that there really were some guns left behind in the secret room that hadn't been destroyed.

Then, he precisely pulled the wooden box containing Fukai Ichiro out from a pile of dry straw, and with the joy of finding a lifeline, he dragged the box to the door. As soon as the wooden lid was opened, he screamed and collapsed to the ground in fright.

Fukai Ichiro's body was still warm.

When Daisuke pulled the box out, Katsutoshi Yagami froze for a second. He thought he had hidden it very well, but Daisuke had pulled it out without even turning a corner. He even wondered if Daisuke had been spying on him...

But there was no time to be shocked.

Because Daisuke, who was slumped over, had his mouth wide open and his eyes wide, staring straight at him. Fortunately, the room lights were not very bright, and he had also raised his collar and pulled his baseball cap down, so his face should not be clearly visible.

Katsuya Yagami pulled his black baseball cap down again, covered his face, leaped from the top of the cabinet to the office door, knocked out one of his underlings, and rushed out without looking back.

Kidnapping Fukai Jiro might be safer, but he gave up after a brief consideration. After all, his face was already that of a celebrity, and he couldn't expose himself in order not to cause trouble for Funakawa Yoshiko.

This made his situation even more dangerous. Jiro Fukai was first startled by Onii-chan's corpse and Daisuke's scream, and then by the black-clad man who suddenly jumped out from the cabinet. He went completely mad, chased to the door, and pulled out a small pistol to shoot.

Katsuya Yagami was shot in the right arm, but without uttering a sound or turning around, he scrambled out of the store and disappeared into the dark alley.

Although Kabukicho Ichiban-gai is a bustling commercial district with high foot traffic, most shops had suspended operations due to the previous gunshots and the police blockade, so there were not many tourists. As a result, Fukai Jiro adopted a "you run, I chase" approach to the mysterious murderer Yagami Katsu, gathering his henchmen to surround and intercept him at various alley entrances.

Katsuya Yagami is quite skilled at being a bodyguard and assassin, adept at concealment and escape. Taking advantage of the opportunity to hide, he used his mobile phone to call his brothers in the "Eastern Continent Society" for help.

Enraged, Fukai Jiro almost lost his mind. He gathered all his brothers, brought out the guns he had brought, and engaged in a massacre with the incredibly skilled brothers who had come to rescue Yagami Katsu. The incredibly skilled brothers left behind several corpses and scrambled back to headquarters. Fukai Jiro was not willing to let them go, so he sent a group of vicious armed henchmen to chase after them and a fierce battle ensued between them and the "Eastern Continent Society".

However, he didn't go; instead, he continued leading the remaining brothers to sweep through the neighborhood in search of Katsuya Yagami...

Unable to escape the neighborhood, Katsuya Yagami, following the principle of "blind spots under the lamp," stumbled back into the pachinko parlor.

Then, filled with grief and indignation, Fukai Jiro removed Fukai Ichiro's organs, put them into a medical kit, and, with a group of henchmen, hurriedly went to make the transaction.

However, before leaving, Jiro Fukai left behind another group of henchmen to continue hunting down Katsuya Yagami, and also left behind a few guns. The leader of the group was Daisuke.

Katsuya Yagami was secretly pleased, thinking that he could take the opportunity to escape once Daisuke and his men left. However, to his surprise, Daisuke disobeyed orders and started eating and drinking in the store, and even played pinball.

The pachinko parlor wasn't even open for business; it was just seven or eight guys playing around inside, and two of them even had pistols tucked into their waistbands.

They played until dawn...

Although Katsuya Yagami managed to remove the bullet from his right arm with his fingers and stop the bleeding, the intense tension and blood loss had left him physically and mentally exhausted. He could no longer lift his right arm, and his shoulder was numb, showing signs of infection. He urgently needed antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs, and painkillers…

He even hid in the closet and was unconscious for a while. When he woke up, Daisuke was still playing games with his younger brothers.

He couldn't even run, and felt a bit dizzy. He did have a mobile phone, but it could only make calls and didn't have a text messaging function. The cabinet door was right next to Daisuke's game console, so if he made a call, they would hear him. Besides, he couldn't open the cabinet door too wide, or Daisuke and the others would notice him as soon as he went out. Fortunately, he could sneak his hand out through the crack in the door. He took a half-empty bottle of black tea that Daisuke had dropped by the cabinet door, drank it to quench his thirst, and then couldn't hold it in any longer, so he peed in the bottle and threw it out.

Around eight o'clock in the morning, Daisuke, with red eyes, finally stopped playing games and left the pachinko store, saying he was going to deliver talent to "Yoko's man's Miyamoto 100-yen supermarket".

However, after Daisuke left, a younger brother with a catheter in his crotch and sitting in a wheelchair took over the game console.

Katsuya Yagami was desperate. He couldn't understand why, when there were many new machines in other parts of the store, everyone liked to ruin this broken machine in front of the cabinet.

When one of the younger brothers got tired of playing, another younger brother took over, and they played for another whole day.

Katsuya Yagami had barely eaten anything for a day and a night and was so hungry that he didn't need to poop anymore... Of course, he did manage to pick up half a bag of potato chips from the cupboard door and carefully and slowly finish them, but they weren't very filling, and they were spicy, which made the inflammation of his arm wound seem to be getting worse.

When he woke up from his deep sleep again, it was already evening. He seemed to have a fever. To his despair, he discovered that Daisuke had taken over the game console again and played for hours on end. Fortunately, half a bottle of drink would always fall to the door of the cabinet. But after drinking it, he couldn't help but quietly refill it. To avoid accidentally touching it again, he carefully moved it a little further away.

A hapless guy picked up a bottle, took two sips, spat it all over the floor, and yelled, "This is bad! I'll blackmail the delivery guy when he comes!"

Then, he unscrewed the caps and smelled all the half-empty bottles, finally confirming that they were urine, and became extremely angry.

Before playing the game, it was agreed that when everyone needed to pee, they had to switch roles, and no one was allowed to hold it in.

Who would have thought that someone would secretly urinate in beverage bottles to cheat, and accumulate so much of it?

Then they stopped playing the game and started looking for the cheater, because it was a malicious act that greatly affected unity, and they had to find him and punish him severely, making him drink all of it.

Their primary suspicion was the catheter, because the end of the catheter is connected to a urine bag, and he could secretly pull out the end of the catheter and insert it into the bottle without anyone noticing.

The catheter donor, of course, protested, pointing to his urine bag and pointing out that the colors were all different...

Daisuke defended the guy with the catheter, and then everyone started arguing.

Katsuya Yagami, who was hiding in the closet, had been resigned to his fate and was waiting to die, but he never expected to have such a chance to escape.

He took advantage of everyone's backs being turned to the cupboard, quietly pushed open the cupboard door, and tried to hide next to the green trash can by the back door, where he could find an opportunity to escape.

Then, just as he crawled out of the closet, his mobile phone suddenly rang—

The shouting in the shop suddenly stopped, and Daisuke and his underlings turned around at the same time, their eyes wide open.

"Hey?"

Covered in blood, Katsuya Yagami faced a dozen pairs of wide-eyed eyes, leaning against the gray-white metal cabinet door, a trail of blood slowly sliding down his face. He then sat down on the ground and connected to a mobile phone.

His pale face was expressionless, and his gaze and voice were very calm.