Tokyo: I took in a homeless girl

No matter how much he admires me, he certainly can't accept this kind of thing, right?

"I've also heard that Suguha is planning to use her athletic performance to go to university because of you."

Tetsuichirou Esaki placed the brewed tea in front of Sawayama Haruno, then whispered, "Since you two young lovers want to be together so badly, then it doesn't matter if the exam is moved up a few days, right?"

"It doesn't matter."

Zeshan Haruno thought for a moment and said seriously, "Let's get started. What does Master want me to do?"

“That look is pretty good.”

Tetsuichiro Esaki did not rush to announce the test questions, but instead praised Sawayama Haruno.

After a while, after hearing a lot of footsteps coming from outside, Ezaki Tetsuichiro slowly said: "You will know soon. For now, let's move to the room upstairs."

“Do we still have to wait in the end?”

Sawayama Haruno drank the tea in front of him in one gulp.

When he put down the cup, he chuckled and said, "But luckily I have plenty of time today, so I'll go up first."

After saying that, he was about to turn around and leave.

At this time, Tetsuichiro Esaki called him again.

"Zeshan, don't forget what we said last time."

He stared at Zeshan Haruno with his cloudy eyes and said meaningfully, "Now it's your turn to make a choice."

".I see."

Sawayama Haruno felt a little puzzled, but still nodded in response.

After he opened the door of the tea room and went out, he found that the old lady who took him to visit the kendo dojo last time had been waiting at the door for a long time.

After a brief greeting between the two, Sawayama Haruno was taken by the old woman to a room on the second floor.

Tetsuichiro Esaki continued to stay in the tea room and started to make a new round of tea.

Simply rinse the teacup, then re-add tea and water, wait patiently, pour the boiled tea back and forth between several cups, and then start brewing tea for the second time.

Each step seemed very neat and quick, which formed a sharp contrast with Ezaki Suguha's somewhat elegant tea-making technique.

However, this is the simpler method used by Tetsuichiro Esaki, who is already old.

To him, tea and tea ceremony are two different things. Tea is just something to drink, while tea ceremony is a technique to demonstrate a person's inner cultivation.

But he is old now, so he no longer needs to show off anything.

Woohoo——

The kettle next to him was boiling water again, making bursts of boiling sounds, and a steady stream of white steam was coming out of the small hole.

When the boiling sound occurred for the fifth time, the door in front was pushed open from the outside.

"grandfather."

Naoto Esaki appeared at the door with a calm expression.

Then Tetsuichiro Ezaki seemed to be unable to see him, and was too lazy to even lift his eyelids.

Seeing this, Naoto Ezaki was not angry, but walked straight into the tea room and then knelt on the tatami.

"Grandfather, I have already taken control of all the members of the board of directors."

Naoto Ezaki said sincerely, "The Ishizawa family promised me that they would not let the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department take them away for at least a week, and the next round of elections will start in three days, so..."

"I should win this time, right?"

"hehe."

The corner of Tetsuichiro Ezaki's mouth twitched, revealing a somewhat forced smile.

"For your own ends, you are willing to send your own relatives to jail?"

He said with emotion: "The curse has really come true once again."

"At this point, even I can't stop you. You must have sent people to guard the area. I can neither get out nor contact the outside world."

"You're right, you win."

To Naoto Esaki's surprise, Tetsuichiro Esaki acknowledged his victory without hesitation.

However, before I could be happy, the other party changed the subject and asked, "But, can you trust outsiders more than your family?"

“I don’t trust outsiders more.”

Naoto Ezaki shook his head and said seriously: "I believe in profit."

"They won't betray others unless it's their own interests. Even if they're relatives, even if they're blood relatives, as long as their interests are affected, they'll treat me as an enemy. That's why I didn't hesitate to join forces with the Ishizawa family to capture them."

"Besides, there are too many people in the Ezaki family. The voice of these people together is too loud, which will affect many of my future plans. So I will do this to be on the safe side."

Naoto Ezaki said calmly, "Grandfather, you are just old. If you were younger and in my position, you would do the same thing."

Chapter 274: Imprisonment, Incident, and Action

"Will I, too?"

Tetsuichiro Esaki smiled without any concern.

"Maybe. If I were younger, I could do something like this."

"But now that I'm older, I don't value these things anymore."

Tetsuichiro Ezaki sighed: "Are you still not as good as the young people?"

"grandfather."

Hearing him say this, Naoto Ezaki, who had mistakenly thought that his grandfather was ready to give up resistance, suddenly brightened up.

However, the other party's next sentence made him freeze in place.

"But, whatever happens."

Tetsuichiro Ezaki picked up the teacup and took a sip. When he put it down, his eyes suddenly became extremely sharp.

"Capturing all my uncles is too cruel. If you are allowed to do whatever you want here, the Ezaki family will fall apart now without waiting for the future to be controlled by outsiders."

"I won't agree to let you attend the Chamber of Commerce meeting and the councilor election as a representative of the Ezaki family, so just give up on this idea." He said coldly.

"."

Naoto Ezaki's expression suddenly turned gloomy.

He didn't say anything else, but took several deep breaths before calming down the emotions surging in his heart.

"Grandfather, you think too highly of these useless relatives."

Naoto Ezaki almost uttered these words through gritted teeth.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Why did your eldest son, my father, and your second son, Suguha's father leave? Don't you know it, grandfather?"

"Just because your biological children are fewer and your siblings' offspring are more, isn't it a bit too much to favor one over the other? You have to know that they are your biological sons."

"You wouldn't understand." Ezaki Tetsuichiro shook his head and said slowly, "I didn't realize this at the time, so this regret happened."

"Now that I realize this, I will no longer agree with your actions."

Tetsuichiro Esaki paused, then raised his voice.

"I have done the same multiple-choice questions countless times in my life. The questions and answers are exactly the same, but I always choose the wrong answer."

"Later, I finally understood that it was not because of the answer I chose, nor because of my own misjudgment, but because the question itself was wrong."

"Naoto, you need to calm down and think about this."

Tetsuichiro Esaki came over, patted him on the shoulder and added: "At least don't make the same mistake as me."

Naoto Ezaki stood up from the ground with a cold face. Looking at the short and strong old man standing in front of him, he shook his head with some disappointment.

"Sorry Grandfather, I'm not letting you out of here."

As soon as he finished speaking, a large number of bodyguards in black suits rushed in from outside the tea room. After entering the tea room, they quickly stood in a row against the wall of the room, surrounding the entire tea room tightly.

It was obvious that Naoto Esaki was also well prepared and was able to ensure that his grandfather could stay peacefully in the old house for a week.

As for why he brought so many people, there was of course a reason.

Naoto Ezaki couldn't beat his grandfather, so in order to avoid being beaten up by the other party with a copper-headed leather belt, he had to bring more people with him.

"Grandfather, just stay here and relax this week."

After seeing that the people he arranged had finally come in, Naoto Ezaki also showed a confident expression.

"Once the Chamber of Commerce and the election are over, I will remove these people as soon as possible."

He said sincerely, "And those relatives who were arrested will all come back safe and sound."

return?

Not coming back at all.

Would they come back and continue to hinder me? Would they not support me when I needed them most, and then wait until next week when everything was settled, and then let them come back to enjoy the fruits of victory?

Even if Naoto Esaki could agree, the other members of the party he had joined would not agree to such a thing happening.

So he is just lying here with his eyes open.

Obviously, Tetsuichiro Esaki also understood this.

After a moment's silence, he suddenly laughed.

The old man's laughter was bold and heroic, which did not match his old appearance. When he laughed, it seemed as if the whole house was shaking. Such a cheerful look made Naoto Ezaki suddenly confused.

What is grandpa laughing at? Why is he laughing so happily?

Naoto Ezaki was a little stunned, until some sawdust fell on him from the ceiling, and then he looked up belatedly.

Was that an illusion? Wasn't the house shaking due to laughter?!

Naoto Ezaki's expression suddenly changed, and his eyes gradually became terrified.

The next moment, the ceiling collapsed without warning.

The pure wooden beam structure shattered in an instant, and a large amount of wood chips flew in the air. A bodyguard who didn't have time to react was implicated and was crushed underneath a large piece of wooden ceiling.

The flying wood blocks also injured several bodyguards, but fortunately the scale of the injury was not serious.

The ceiling fell down as if it was going to destroy the tea table in the center. However, when the dust settled, everyone could see that it was not the ceiling that fell down, but a person.

He broke through the ceiling and jumped down from it.

With an upright figure and an expressionless face, he stuck a bamboo sword on the ground like a walking stick.

"No wonder the old woman asked me to pick a bamboo sword first when she led me upstairs."

He seemed to be talking to himself and said, "So this is where it's going to be used?"

"I thought it was a literature test, but I didn't expect it to be a physical test."

Sawayama Haruno grinned and shouted towards where Ezaki Tetsuichiro was, "Old man, the old woman just told me that if I let you leave here, Suguha will be mine from now on, right?"

He eavesdropped on the entire process upstairs, and with the old woman's occasional supplementary explanations, he understood the current situation.

To be honest, Naoto Ezaki's ruthlessness was far beyond his imagination. He didn't expect that so many relatives would be killed without any hesitation.

It was precisely because of this ruthlessness that he hesitated. After all, no one could guarantee that Naoto Ezaki would always win. If he lost, the counterattack from other forces would only become more serious. At that time, Suguha Ezaki, who was another candidate to inherit the family head, would definitely be implicated.

For Haruno Sawayama, his brother-in-law was just too extreme.

I believe my grandfather also understands this truth, which is why he asked me to help him with the multiple-choice questions last time.

Just before he went upstairs, he emphasized this matter again.

To be honest, it doesn't matter whether you make a choice or not at this point. Sawayama Haruno only needs to bring the "master's" letter to the outside of the mansion and then he can go and pick up Ezaki Suguha.

No matter what happened to the Ezaki family afterwards, it had nothing to do with him and Ezaki Suguha.

That's why Sawayama Haruno chose to take action without hesitation.

"I asked you to help me make a choice, not to tear down my house."

In response to Sawayama Haruno's question, Ezaki Tetsuichiro said unhappily, "You'll have to pay for it. This old house has a history of nearly a hundred years."