"Teacher," the apprentice who originally looked innocent suddenly changed his expression to a calm one and said calmly. "As the son of Sohei Dejima, I ask you to answer a question - the truth about why you falsely accused my father of fraud twenty years ago.

"

"Dejima Sohei?" Nagano Koji and Mrs. Nagano both had unconcealable astonishment on their faces at the same time, and a look of shame appeared on Nagano Koji's face afterwards.

"Aren't you going to say it?" The apprentice - or Dejima, who is more appropriately called - said again. "You have the courage to do it, but don't have the courage to say it?"

"Tell me about it," Gregory looked at Nagano Koji who was very hesitant and said. "Otherwise I can't guarantee whether your condition will relapse - don't look at me like that. Your condition is inherently unstable. I

You don’t need to do anything to make you die unfortunately. Besides, even if you did something, the time limit for the crime of defamation of reputation has already passed, and no one can prosecute you. (The 2013 Criminal Code states that honor

The maximum penalty for the crime of damage is 3 years and 500,000 yen. The statute of limitations for this crime, which has a maximum sentence of no more than 5 years, was 3 years before 2004, so the false accusation of fraud 20 years ago has now passed the statute of limitations and cannot be prosecuted.) So

Say, instead of dying in confusion, how about telling a story to open our eyes?"

"..." Nagano Hongji sighed. "Forget it, that's it anyway, I'll just tell you."

————The dividing line of memories

Twenty years ago.

[My friend Hiroshi seemed to have taken back the house he rented to me for free because he wanted to do some experiments, so I could only rent a house in another place. Under his introduction, I met his

A friend——Dejima Sohei.]

[That guy had two adjacent houses in a nice community, so he rented one to me and waived my rent for a year. 】

[My family background was not that good at the time, and because I was researching a project at the time, although the project had great prospects, it also required a huge amount of start-up capital, so I was very short of money at the time - not just lack of progress.

With the funds for this project, I don’t even have the ability to pay the rent after one year.]

[My enthusiasm for the project overwhelmed my conscience, so I began planning how to make the house my own.]

[I tampered with the rental contract, but it wasn’t to add terms that were beneficial to me. Instead, I used a contract swap to add a few lines in small print to the standard contract he gave me, which were very beneficial to him.

Terms.]

[So, after a year passed, I used the public media to ferment this overlord clause that was unfair to me, and successfully pushed Sohei Dejima to the opposite side of public opinion. I even used the power of public opinion to drive the judiciary

The power forced the court to make a first-instance judgment that the contract was invalid. Of course, it would not be of much benefit to me if I just sentenced Sohei Dejima for fraud, so I finally appealed to Sohei Dejima before the second-instance judgment was made.

I completed an out-of-court settlement with Dejima Sohei. In exchange for safeguarding his reputation, I got the permanent ownership of the house. I caught the time very accurately. At that time, he was competing for a very important award, so for myself

I value my reputation very much, so I was forced to reach an out-of-court settlement with me.】

[Then there is a very crazy story - I used that house to mortgage about 15 million yen, and then invested all of it in the project I was researching. If my research project does not produce results in the end, or the results

If I fail to transfer it to practical use, I will be finished.】

When he said this, Nagano Hongji showed a proud smile.

[It was a really crazy day. I spent day and night experimenting with various materials that I had bought before and testing whether the materials could meet the requirements. The hard work paid off, and I finally found a method that could keep all this going.

product - a finished product that is so low-cost that it can be commercialized and is not particularly difficult to produce.】

[I once thought about compensating for the losses I caused to Sohei Dejima, but every time I tried to apologize, I was rejected. In the end, I failed to beg his forgiveness...]

"That's because my father was gone at that time!" Dejima rudely interrupted Nagano Koji's memories, and his expression showed that his emotions were somewhat out of control.

"My father had a heart disease, but soon after he settled with you out of court, his condition suddenly worsened, and he eventually died without resuscitation."

"I'm really sorry..." Nagano Hongji lowered his head.

"You don't need to apologize," Dejima said with a sneer. "After my father passed away, I vowed to avenge my father. I was in junior high school at the time and my grades were very bad. But because you are a chemistry student at Toto University

Professor, so if I want to get close to you, I can only become a chemistry student at Toto University and get good enough grades to get close to you."

"That's why I studied hard and strengthened myself. Finally, I successfully became a chemistry student at Toto University, and became your student, Mr. Nagano. After five years of hard work, I was able to watch from my seat.

You taught courses on the podium, and after another ten years of hard work, I became one of your assistants. After another four years, I finally had a high enough status in your eyes to become the third

A disciple who was able to come to your home. I waited another year to obtain certain qualifications so that the police would not have a bad first impression of me after the incident because you died as soon as I arrived at your home."

"I have been preparing for this revenge for twenty years," Dejima looked at Nagano Hongji with a morbid expression. "Can you understand how much I hate you?"

Dejima's hand in his trouser pocket suddenly left his trouser pocket, and with a sound of metal friction, the blade symbolizing death protruded from his fist-shaped hand.

"Die!" After a violent shout, Dejima, with a look of madness on his face, took a step forward, and then stabbed Nagano Koji fiercely with the blade.

"!!!" Although he was standing behind Dejima, so it was impossible for him to assassinate him, Qianyu was still startled. After being stimulated back to a calm state by the auxiliary unit, he immediately looked two or three meters away and

Huihara Ai stood together with Yuantai and others.

He saw that Haiyuan Ai's expression was quite complicated. It looked as if he had suddenly shifted from deep contemplation to shock.

At this moment, a crisp sound came from Dejima.

"Sorry," Gregory said while pressing Dejima's hand with his cane and looking at the dagger that was discarded on the mattress and snatched up by Kaede Hoshino who reacted quickly. "This is a hospital, not an execution ground."

Gregory obviously guessed what Dejima wanted to do based on the change in Dejima's tone. After Dejima took action, he immediately turned his cane around and smashed Dejima's hand directly into the mattress, and the dagger in Dejima's hand also

He was knocked off his hands by this blow.

"Implementing justice does not necessarily require this method," Gregory slowly took back his cane. "Using violence for revenge like you can really only be said to be the least intelligent way."
Chapter completed!