In the afternoon, the sunlight outside the window finally had more warmth, shining in the duty room, making people drowsy.

Yuuki held his cheek in one hand and stared at a brown paper bag on the table.

The girls who haven't completely gone away from the fever have all gone back to sleep after taking cold medicine, and Hana gave this to him.

This is exactly what the boss of Takahashi left for him.

No wonder he felt like he had forgotten something when he went to bed last night.

He was hesitating now.

Although the paper bag has not been opened, Sister Asuka does not recommend that he open it now, as if he already knows what is inside.

If it hadn't been for Boss Takahashi telling him before he left, probably Sister Asuka would have hidden it from him.

"What's in there? The results of the investigation into the death of the original owner's father? And some things about the original owner and mandarins? ”

He furrowed his brow, his mind turning over and over again, and after eliminating some of the options that he thought were wrong, all that was left was these three.

He looked up, looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window, and couldn't help but think of the time when he first came back to life last year.

I was dazed, uneasy, scared, and wanted to cry, but I didn't know why I was crying, so I couldn't cry, so I could only howl, but after howling a few times, I felt too ashamed, so I had to hold it back to the bottom of my heart.

And then until I accepted the facts, accepted the identity, accepted that there was a sister named Mikan, and accepted the embarrassment of a lot of debts......

He scratched his head, thinking about it like this, it seemed that there were a lot of troubles that were solved last year.

Of course, thanks to that one.

Otherwise, no matter how hard he tried, he wouldn't be able to get to this point.

"So many hurdles have come over, and no matter how difficult things are, they have been solved head-on...... Now a kraft paper bag, what is there not to look at? He muttered to himself, raised his hand to pick up the paper bag, and was about to tear it open.

But at this time, a soft shout sounded at the door.

"Yuichi ......"

He paused his hand and looked up.

At the door, Asuka was holding the door frame with one hand, with a complicated expression in her eyes, and said in an almost pleading tone: "Don't look at it...... At least until Mikan has surgery, okay? ”

Yuuki looked at her in surprise, then looked down at the envelope that had been torn open a little, and hesitated.

After a moment, he said seriously, "You know what's inside...... Can you tell me why? ”

He could see that Sister Asuka was also hesitating, otherwise, if he really didn't want to see it, he wouldn't have given it to him yesterday.

Asuka had obvious confusion in her eyes, she walked in, closed the door of the duty room, sat down beside him, looked at the brown paper bag in his hand, and whispered: "It's better to let it pass......

Yuki Yuichi looked at her and shook his head slightly: "This reason is not enough." ”

Asuka was silent for a while, repeating what she had just said: "Yuichi, just trust my sister once...... Don't look at it, wait until Mikan has surgery. ”

Yuuki thought for a moment and said, "Are you worried that I'll tell her?" Don't worry, I'm not going to tell her half a word. ”

"That's not going to work either!" Sister Asuka shook her head, she couldn't tell whether she was pity or pity in her eyes, and her voice was low: "If you look at it now, maybe Yuichi won't be able to face Mikan." ”

"Can't face mandarin again?" Yuuki Yuichi frowned deeply: "What do you mean by this?" ”

"My sister has actually been thinking about this for the past few days, and I think that anyway, it has passed, and Yuichi is not a child, so it should be nothing...... But if you think about it again, I think it's better not to know for the time being......"

Sister Asuka was stunned, and suddenly asked, "Yuichi, are you happy in your current life?" ”

Yuichi Yuki was pondering the first half of her sentence, and when he heard the words, he subconsciously hummed: "Just wait for the mandarin disease to heal." ”

"Yuichi, then if my sister said that after reading the things in it now, it may not be possible to live like this now...... What will you do? ”

Yuki Yuichi scratched his head and said helplessly: "Sister Asuka, if possible, I hope you can explain it clearly, it's quite tiring to guess riddles." ”

Asuka pointed to the brown paper bag: "This is actually Mr. Goo's death investigation report, which has the cause of Mr. Goo's death and the general trajectory of Mr. Goo's life after leaving Fukuoka...... There are three copies of such a brown paper bag, one for the old man of the Yuuki family, one for me, and the third one in your hand, what my sister can tell you is that it is because my sister has already seen it, so I don't want you to read it now. ”

"Mr. Takahashi told you before he left, and it was something that my sister didn't expect."

"In the past few days, my sister has been really entangled...... Yuichi, don't watch it anyway. ”

"What has passed, let it pass."

Yuki Yuichi listened quietly and said seriously: "Listening to what you say, I can roughly guess something, although I don't know if it's accurate...... But, I think, I should still see, whatever it is, it's not quite like to hide all the time. ”

Seeing that she still couldn't convince him, Asuka couldn't help but smile wryly, looking at him, Sakura's lips moved slightly.

"Then at least think about it for a few more days...... Three days, is it okay to have three days? ”

Yuuki fell silent.

Sister Asuka persuaded him so.

Could it be because the death of the original owner's father has something to do with mandarin?

But what can a child who has been sick in bed do?

And after eliminating all the impossibilities, the remaining possibilities are not just possibilities......

"Ou, Ou Duosan's death is not directly related to the mandarin orange, right? What kind of risk did you take to earn the medical expenses of mandarin oranges? Yuuki Yuichi said suddenly.

Sister Asuka was stunned and couldn't help but be silent.

Yuki Yu saw her reaction, and there was a look of truth in his eyes.

The details are not clear, but they are generally correct.

It is precisely because of this that Sister Asuka is worried that he may lose control of his emotions and will no longer be able to face Mikan.

This kind of worry is not wrong, right?

But if it's just this level, will Sister Asuka be so entangled?

Yuuki pondered.

When the father took the risk to earn medical bills, he accidentally lost his life......

"Perhaps, this risk cannot be taken at all, because it is a life-or-death situation?"

He looked at Sister Asuka and said something again with a guess.

Sister Asuka was silent.

There was confusion in his eyes, and it seemed that something was not quite right.

He looked down at the brown paper bag in his hand, and suddenly there seemed to be a flash of lightning in his mind, and blurted out: "Is he not taking risks to earn medical bills at all, but knowing that he will ......die?"

Sister Asuka still didn't speak, but her eyes dimmed a lot.

Yuuki couldn't help but purse his lips.

I really guessed it right for him.

That death was planned a long time ago?

Use his death to exchange for a no more, no less, no more accident?

Drink poison to quench thirst?

Is that so? If that's the case, how stupid would it have to be to come up with such an idea?

His brows furrowed deeply, and he no longer hesitated, and directly tore open the brown paper bag and poured a bunch of things out of it.

There were papers, there were photographs, there were papers and bloodstained bandages......

He didn't care about anything else, and directly picked up the "Hou Xiong-san's death investigation report" that Sister Asuka said, and looked at it sentence by sentence.

This is a summary of what Boss Takahashi has investigated during the most of the half a year he has been out.

Although it is very trivial and can be said to be scattered, after induction, the facts are almost restored:

Hou Xiongsang has been playing underground black boxing to make money, and in recent years, the number of times he has fought has increased significantly; At the beginning of last year, he received an invitation to a boxing match with a high appearance fee, and the odds of death in that boxing match were amazingly high, and after thinking about it for a few days, he made a few phone calls back home, and then went to compete......"

Seeing this, Yuuki Yuichi suddenly remembered something: when he just came back to life last year, and he was worried about a stack of bills, someone stuffed a small amount of money from the crack in the door, but it was actually quite a considerable amount.

The original owner's father was a boxer who played black boxing.

The original owner and the mandarin probably didn't know about this matter, right? Otherwise, it would not be possible to have a single word in the note.

Yuuki pursed his lips, his face was still terrifying, and he continued to look.

“…… According to the investigation, Hou Xiongsan's phone calls were made to Yuuki-kun and the Dongdu Comprehensive Nursing Home, as well as XX Bank; The content of the call is unclear for the time being, but it was found in the previous investigation that Hou Xiongsang's phone call should be in a state of being monitored, but it was not found that he had been coerced......"

"Before the competition, Hou Xiongsang had an abnormal late-night outing."

"The biggest winners of that fight were the local black merchant families; Thinking of the outing before the Hou Xiongsang competition, maybe what does it have to do with this family? Whether it is related or not needs to be investigated; But what is certain is that Hou Xiongsang's death has a very heavy trace of human planning."

There is a pause here, as if the boss of Takahashi, who was writing, suddenly encountered some confusion.

It's just hard to understand why he chose to participate in the event because he should have known the consequences of the competition...... The reasons for this need to be investigated......"

The handwriting of this letter clearly shows the old and the new, and the difference is clearly not written in a day, and it is clearly not the whole story.

Yuuki Yuki looked at the reverse side, then looked on the table, and looked up at Asuka: "What about the content in the back?" ”

Asuka was looking at him, looking at the slight pale on his cheeks, an expression that she couldn't accept after guessing the facts.

She said softly: "The content behind it can't be put on paper......"

"Yuichi wants to ask whether Hou Xiongsang's death was an accident or man-made? Or do you want to ask him why he did it? ”

"All! Please tell me without the slightest reservation! ”

"All...... Asuka pursed her lips, "You guessed right, it was planned a long time ago...... And Hou Xiong-sang also knows. ”

Even though he guessed it, Yuuki still hoped it wasn't the right guess! But now, Sister Asuka told him that he had guessed correctly.

Yuuki Yuichi couldn't accept this fact, and clenched his fists tightly: "He was threatened? Or is there a lack of money to the point of desperation? Why didn't he come to Fukuoka? Or maybe he came, but he was turned away! ”

Asuka shook her head: "If Goo-san chooses to come to Fukuoka, where will it become like this?" ”

She sighed, reached out and flipped through the pile of photos on the table, took out one, and put it in front of Yuuki Yuichi, with a trance in her tone: "This photo is really here for you." ”

Yuuki Yuichi looked down.

The photo shows a young Yuuki Goo and a smiling kimono woman under a cherry blossom tree.

The photograph is torn and there are still signs of folding.

"She's your grandmother." Asuka pointed to the kimono woman above and said softly, "I died at the beginning of the second year after Goo-san broke up with his family, and he suffered from heart disease. ”

"By the time he knew, it was already too late, so he couldn't forgive himself, and he couldn't face the old man of the Yuuki family again, and Sister Miyako."

"For so many years, he should have been living in remorse and pain, right?"

Asuka had unbearable in her eyes: "But because he has been playing black boxing all year round, his body has long reached the limit, his bones are cracked, his internal organs are broken, his optic nerve is damaged, and he has many major injuries and small injuries, so many that he can't count them...... Therefore, I chose such a way, hoping to ask for forgiveness and take care of your brothers and sisters in the future......"

“…… This is the reason why Goxiong-san did this, and it is also all that Yuichi wants to know and Takahashi-sensei has found out. ”

"Yuichi, Hou Xiong-san is not a good son, nor is he a good brother, arrogant, arrogant, willful, and has countless shortcomings, but he is definitely a good father...... So, at least you and Mikan, don't blame and resent him. ”

The room was quiet again.

Yuuki Yuichi kept his head down and his eyes wide as he looked at the young man in the photo who was standing next to the woman in kimono, laughing.

There was a sullen feeling of discomfort in his heart, he wiped his eyes with his sleeve and suppressed his voice: "Thank you, thank you for telling me this." ”