Chapter 44: Tokyo Drift (14)

The waiter at the breakfast shop puts tamagoyaki, rice, grilled fish, and miso soup on the table.

However, none of the three moved their chopsticks, and Ameko's determined eyes on the other side made Toru Takeda sigh.

The owner of the fish shop lit a cigarette and said, "Why bother, you're going to China in just over two months, so why do you want to get involved in this?" ”

"I want to know the truth of that incident back then, somewhere in your heart you are still loving your mother, right?"

"At our age, feelings and things are actually not that important." Toru Takeda was also noncommittal, taking a puff of his cigarette and saying, "When I was younger, I used to think that I would always love a certain woman, but the truth is that after so many years, I almost forgot what she looked like. ”

The owner of the seafood shop paused, "But anyway, after all, I owe you something, how about it, Nanako, is she doing well?" ”

"Mom, she's fine now, but she still has some memories of what happened back then, but she once told me in person that she doesn't hate you anymore, you just ...... We are still owed a truth. ”

Toru Takeda fell silent when he heard this, and he could see that he didn't want to remember the events of the past, but now he knew that he couldn't hide it anymore.

After an unknown amount of time, it was not until the cigarette was about to burn his fingers that the owner of the fish shop re-spoke, "It was all because of a mistake, the most regrettable mistake I have ever made in my life." ”

Next, the owner of the fish shop finally told the story that he had hidden for many years.

In the seventies and eighties of the last century, Japan's economy entered the final madness, Yosuke Tsuchiya was born in that era, with a happy family, and the vast majority of ordinary people at that time, Yosuke Tsuchiya was also young and vigorous, arrogant, until the signing of the Plaza Accord, the dollar began to depreciate wildly against the yen, the purchasing power of the yen reached its peak, but then it was a devastating blow to the export industry, Japan from prosperity to decline, into the lost decade, the huge contrast made this generation embark on a different path.

Tsuchiya's parents were overwhelmed by the high debt pressure, and after their only residence was repossessed by the bank, they committed suicide by burning charcoal, and their grandparents died of illness one after another

- This kid is a natural fighter.

In his dictionary of life, there seems to be no fear of these two words at all.

Whatever cannot kill me will make me stronger.

Yosuke Tsuchiya reached the pinnacle of his life in his twenties, achieving great results in Europe, finishing second in the FIA GT Grand Prix in New York, then falling out with the team and returning home to win the D1 Grand Prix Tokyo Chase Race, making him a legend in the Japanese drift world.

At that point, he had already reached the top of the mountain, but he was still unsatisfied, desperate for a new challenge, so he decided to start challenging for the DK title, and it took less than a year to knock out the top underground racers in 22 districts, leaving only the last training area.

"The best driver in the Nerima area is called Naoto Asano, and he is a crazy guy who has created his own set of deathmatch running methods, choosing a section of the highway at the agreed time, destroying the guardrails, setting up entrances and exits, and the cars driving in the opposite direction on the highway, whoever reaches the finish line alive first is the winner, and sometimes he will deliberately introduce the police into the game to increase the excitement."

"This ...... It's suicide. Ameko was completely dumbfounded when he heard the rules.

"Naoto Asano firmly believes that only the bravest drivers deserve to win, and that all the drivers who want to challenge him must accept the rules of the game he has set, and although it seems stupid now, there is only one last race left to win the DK title, and I was not going to give up at that time."

Toru Takeda lit a second cigarette with a lighter, took a deep breath and continued, "We agreed on a time for the competition, in addition to the two of us, there was also my best friend, Ryo Kobayashi, the strongest driver in Shinjuku City, the track we chose together, it was forty kilometers long, three lanes, and the density of vehicles was moderate in normal times, but no one expected that when we got there that day, it suddenly began to fog.

"Kobayashi suggested abandoning this competition and changing the time, I can see that Naoto Asano has actually agreed in his heart, after all, he is just a bastard who enjoys the excitement of swimming on the edge of death, and he doesn't really intend to die, and the danger of that road condition at that time is beyond his bearing, but the bastard obviously doesn't want to let go of this opportunity to mock us, he knows that I will definitely vote for it, so he voted against it, saying that we are all cowards.

"At that time, I was young and vigorous, so I voted against it in a fit of rage, and the final result was 2:1, and the game went on as usual, at this time Naoto Asano's face finally changed, and I didn't feel any revenge because all three of us were already riding tigers."

"What happened after that proved how stupid my decision was, the visibility on the road that day was only four or five meters, we had to slow down, but even then we were still shrouded in the shadow of death, it was no longer a technical competition, luck became the most important thing."

"We drove for ten minutes in fear, usually this time is enough for us to run the whole distance, but this time we only ran less than a third, I have been honking the horn wildly, fortunately at this time the highway has been closed, there are a lot less cars on the opposite side, but even so there are still several times I suddenly see the headlights, slamming the direction to avoid the danger, that feeling is like a brush with death."

Recalling the danger at that time, even now, the owner of the fish shop still has lingering palpitations.

"In this situation, no matter how tenacious the nerves were, we couldn't hold on for long, so Kobayashi and I alternated the lead to buy each other time to rest, and as for Naoto Asano, he was already out of the race early, the so-called bravest driver in Tokyo, his will had been broken, and he only dared to shrink behind us and tremble, but then everyone didn't expect the accident to happen.

"Towards the halfway point I heard the horn of the big truck in front of me and was about to change lanes, but Naoto Asano's GT-R suddenly lifted up and stuck me in the left lane, I tried to accelerate and decelerate but he was always firmly on my right side, I can probably guess what he was thinking at the time, he was so bad today, if he lost this race, the prestige he had accumulated for so long would be gone, so I was scared......

"Naoto Asano is determined to kill me, and the time left for me is getting less and less, and I can't help but feel a sense of despair in my heart, thinking that I am going to confess here today, but I didn't expect that at this time, Ryo Kobayashi drove his LEXUS and crashed into Naoto Asano's GT-R without hesitation.

"The next moment the two of them lost control of their cars together, and Naoto Asano's GT-R rolled under the chassis of the opposite truck first, and then the big truck toppled and smashed on Ryo Kobayashi's LEXUS, the scene was so bloody that I didn't even dare to look at it, his entire roof sank in, and smoke billowed from the front of the car."