My love index is at its maximum.

"The people who came after me were all willing to be with me after I explicitly told them about this. It was a matter of mutual consent, and I don't feel I owe them anything. Only Hanami-nee is special. When she came, she didn't think about sharing me with anyone else. The only person I owe and feel sorry for is her."

"You're quite the scumbag, aren't you?" Kuriyama Sakura said with a half-smile. "No need to see me off, the driver is right here."

"Goodbye."

Tsukasa Tazaki stopped and watched her get into the car parked by the roadside before turning around and walking back along the road.

With a "whoosh," a van stopped in front of him.

Three burly men in suits got out of the car. Before Tazaki Tsukasa could figure out what was going on, a series of strange, groaning laughs came from inside. Then, the pretty boy Suzuki Keita got out of the car.

"It's fate, haha~"

Tsukasa Tazaki couldn't understand what he was laughing at.

The pretty boy got out of the car and strode over to Tsukasa Tazaki, giving him a heavy slap on the arm: "You're unlucky to have met me, Keita Suzuki, Tsukasa Tazaki!"

"I have no grudge against you, do I?" Tsukasa Tazaki frowned at him. "Besides, as a member of Sakura's family, how dare you defy the president's rules and attack me?"

"Hehehe~" Suzuki Keita laughed cruelly, "Unfortunately, from today onwards I'm no longer part of Sakura's family, and Hoshino Takeo's words have no binding force on me. I was planning to slowly deal with you tonight, but since we've run into each other, I'll just do it. Don't blame anyone after you die; if you have to blame someone, blame your bad luck."

Tsukasa Tazaki nodded and smiled slightly at him: "This is the second time."

"What do you mean?"

“I said, this is the second time!” Tsukasa Tazaki grabbed his wrist and twisted it hard.

A scream of agony escaped Suzuki Keita's lips in an instant.

Seeing that things were going badly, the other three burly men pulled out guns from their pockets.

Tsukasa Tazaki quickly closed in.

A triple strike: knee strike, groin strike, and eye gouge.

In the blink of an eye, all three of them were lying peacefully on the ground.

"Why didn't you take out your gun sooner? Villains really do die from talking too much..." Tsukasa Tazaki muttered, squatting down in front of Keita Suzuki. Just as he was about to ask a question, his phone suddenly rang. It was an unfamiliar number.

"Challenging power will inevitably lead to retaliation."

"Come to Warehouse No. 12 at the old Yokohama docks tonight, or Sakura's family will be wiped out."

"You think I'll just go because you say so?" Tsukasa Tazaki said nonchalantly. "You need to give me a convincing reason first, like, what method will you use to wipe out Sakura's family?"

"Keita Suzuki is my undercover agent. Tonight, he will also be waiting for you at the old Yokohama pier."

The call was disconnected.

Tazaki Tsukasa paused, looked down at the screaming Suzuki Keita, and asked blankly, "Did the governor force you to do something against your will, so you hold a grudge against him?"

Chapter 227 Is Hanami worried about you...?

"Mr. Shimamoto, I'm going to visit Sakura's family."

"Ok?"

"Something happened, I need to go check it out."

"be careful."

"Alright." Tsukasa Tazaki tied up the four people lying on the ground, stuffed them all into the van, and drove off towards Sakura's family.

The rain continued to fall, growing heavier and heavier, so he turned the wipers on full blast. The lights from the shops lining the streets mingled with various messages; there were hardly any pedestrians in sight. The super typhoon was still dominating Tokyo.

Twenty minutes later, Sakura's family arrived. Tazaki Tsukasa left the bodyguard at the door to watch Suzuki Keita, and walked towards the backyard with an umbrella.

In the night rain, the courtyard was lit by a warm, yellow light.

That is the light of home.

The faint sound of Shikami crying could be heard from inside. Tazaki Tsukasa's heart tightened, and he quickly stepped inside. His sister-in-law and father-in-law were sitting on the sofa, putting on a show of tender father-daughter affection.

"No, I'm with my dad!"

"Silly child~" Hoshino Takeo gently patted his youngest daughter's head and sighed, "The undercover agent has so much evidence. Sakura's family definitely won't make it through this time. You must rush back to Kyoto tonight and return to your grandmother's side. Be good!"

So that's what happened... Tazaki Tsukasa breathed a slight sigh of relief and was about to ask for details.

His sister-in-law didn't give him a chance to interrupt.

"Dad, we're family." The idiot Shikami looked at her father and asked in a trembling voice, "Shikami has lost her mother since she was little, she can't lose her father too... Can't we go back to Kyoto together? We can leave everything in Tokyo behind, can't we just take Shikami and her sister back to Kyoto?"

“Sakura’s family has offended many people during their rise to power. If your father goes back with you, it will only implicate you.” Hoshino Takeo shook his head with a bitter smile. “Only if I stay in Tokyo and perish with Sakura’s family will you and your sister be spared…”

"But Lu Jian can't bear to part with her father." The little girl's eyes were red, and her voice was sorrowful.

“Daddy will miss Shikami too.” Hoshino Takeo sighed deeply, placing his hands on his youngest daughter’s shoulders. “My greatest blessing in life is marrying Sakura, and having you and Hanami, two smart… no, having Hanami, this clever and bright eldest daughter, and Shikami, this lovely and obedient youngest daughter. After Daddy is gone, you and your sister must listen to Grandma, okay? You also remember to study hard and become a teacher like your sister in the future…”

"dad……"

“Lu Jian…”

The father and daughter wept uncontrollably, a truly moving scene.

Seeing that they were too busy crying to speak, Tsukasa Tazaki quickly asked, "Father-in-law, is the undercover agent you mentioned that pretty boy named Keita Suzuki?"

Ok?

The father and daughter then noticed Tsukasa Tazaki's presence, and they both looked up at him with strange eyes, as if he shouldn't be there, but rather somewhere being tortured.

"Is the undercover agent Keita Suzuki?" Tsukasa Tazaki repeated the question.

His interruption ruined the tender atmosphere between father and daughter, and Hoshino Takeo could no longer cry. He simply recounted how Suzuki Keita was an undercover agent recruited by the Black Dragon Group and had officially defected that day.

After saying that, the president looked back at his youngest daughter, gathering his emotions again: "Lu Jian, Daddy will miss you..."

At this moment, Tsukasa Tazaki said calmly, "I have already brought Keita Suzuki back."

The tears that had just been held back suddenly receded. Hoshino Takeo coughed a few times, then turned back to look at his son-in-law in astonishment: "What did you say?"

The silly deer instinctively put its thumb in its mouth and started eating its hand in confusion.

“I ran into him on the street just now, so I took care of him,” Tsukasa Tazaki said.

His extremely calm tone made it sound as if he were simply cleaning a live fish at the Tsukiji Market.

The silly deer stared wide-eyed, then asked blankly, "Really?"

"Of course." Tazaki Tsukasa nodded at his sister-in-law with a warm gaze that seemed to care for someone with intellectual disabilities.

"Tazaki is awesome!"

The sister-in-law jumped up from the sofa and gave her brother-in-law a warm hug.

Hoshino Takeo watched this scene silently.

My feelings are very complicated.

Although his son-in-law saved Xiaoying's family this time, he still wanted to say... couldn't you have said it sooner?

My father-in-law was very embarrassed because everyone saw me crying so hard.

"Tasaki, how did you do that?" Hoshino Shikami looked up, her cheeks flushed with excitement, and her forehead covered in a fine layer of sweat.

Silly deer are so cute!

She is developing very well physically, truly befitting her older sister's younger sister.

Tazaki Tsukasa rubbed her head vigorously: "Where's my sister?"

"My sister went... Huh?" Hoshino Shikami's eyes widened in surprise. She let go of his hand, took a step back, and groggily bit her hand. "What are you doing here?"

"If I'm not here, where am I?" Tsukasa Tazaki rolled his eyes at her. "Did you think I'd been kidnapped?"

Hoshino Shikami nodded vigorously.

"...?" Tsukasa Tazaki turned to look at Takeo Hoshino, whose father-in-law had an expression that said, "Shikami is right."

"What exactly happened? Where is Hanami-nee?"

"She went to the old docks in Yokohama..."

"What?" Tsukasa Tazaki asked anxiously.

“About twenty minutes ago, someone called using your number…” Hoshino Shikami mumbled, biting her thumb. “They said Suzuki Keita tricked you into coming to Yokohama and wanted your sister to go talk to him alone, otherwise they’d start preparing your funeral…”

"She just left like that?"

"My sister said you belong to her, and no one other than her is allowed to bully you..."

Before Hoshino Shikami could finish speaking, Tazaki Tsukasa had already run out the door, rushed to the front yard, asked someone for a black motorcycle, and grabbed a samurai sword.

With a twist of the accelerator, the engine roared for a moment, then quickly returned to calm.

The motorcycle suddenly accelerated and sped out of the yard, leaving a ghostly afterimage in the rain.

……

Yokohama, old pier.

This area has been abandoned for a long time, with almost no one living nearby, and several large warehouses and ports are in a state of disrepair.

A vehicle drove out, its headlights piercing the night before going out in front of a rusty wire fence.

The car door opened, and a sexy woman with a curvaceous figure, wearing a black leather jacket, stepped out. Her long, black hair was combed back, revealing her smooth, alluring forehead.

Her expression was somewhat cold, but her leather jacket was sexy and alluring, exuding a breathtaking and dashing beauty.

A person emerged from the barbed wire fence and came to her: "Miss Hoshino, this way please."

Hoshino Hanami nodded.

As I walked further in, I carefully observed the surrounding environment.

The area enclosed by barbed wire was an abandoned vacant lot that had once been used as a football field. Sparse trees were covered with waist-high reeds, and two three-story factory buildings had lights on. Near the sea, several speedboats were moored, seemingly ready to flee at any moment.

Arriving at the small gate in front of the barbed wire fence, Hoshino Hanami turned around and gazed at the bustling lights of Tokyo Bay. The city's dazzling lights seemed to be trapped in a deep space, and the places where the lights did not reach were all nothingness.

You brat... you better stay safe and sound, you hear me!

The pampas grass swayed in the night breeze that carried the scent of the sea. Hoshino Hanami sniffed and crawled into the barbed wire fence.

My phone rang; it was Tsukasa Tazaki's number.

"Everyone's already here, why are you still making phone calls..." She stared at her phone screen with a puzzled look.