Taketori Atsuko looked blankly at the bloody knife in Shiraishi's hand, and then looked down at herself.
There were no wounds on her body.
When she hung herself just now, she had been facing the window. The man in black definitely didn't break in through the window sill.
So he came up from downstairs, and downstairs...
"……mom!!"
Taketori Atsuko thought about the whole process and her face turned pale. She got up and wanted to run downstairs, suspecting that her mother had been hacked by the unknown intruder.
Shiraishi subconsciously held the person back, but at this moment, the bedroom door was pushed open.
Taketori Atsuko made a lot of noise when she fell, and later she shouted, and Taketori Mie heard the strange movement.
As soon as she opened the door, she saw a man standing in her daughter's room holding a knife, holding her thin child with one hand, and Atsuko Taketori's clothes had been splattered with blood.
"Calm down! Don't hurt people, I, I'll give you money!" Taketori Mie was so anxious that she almost fainted.
The scene was a little awkward for a moment, but soon, a small light bulb lit up in Bai Shi's mind, and he remembered countless classic scenes from ancient movies.
He forcefully pulled Taketori Atsuko in front of him, held the knife in front of the person's neck, and said gloomily:
"I am your daughter's suitor, but she turned out to be a pervert who likes women and played with my feelings... At this point, only by killing her can the hatred in my heart be relieved."
Taketori Mie was extremely flustered: "This, this is all innate, not Atsuko's fault! And she definitely didn't mean to play with you. Atsuko is very serious about relationships, there must be some misunderstanding..."
As soon as she said the first half of the sentence, Shiraishi felt Taketori Atsuko's grip on his arm loosen.
Then the girl raised her head in confusion and looked at the woman defending her at the door. Not long ago, Taketori Mie's evaluation of this relationship was "ridiculous" and "perverted", but now...
Shiraishi was very satisfied with the effect.
Although he has no acting skills and his lines are all made up on the spot, Taketori Mie is currently in a state of mental retardation and is easy to fool.
——After all, few mothers can calmly distinguish the truth from the lies when they see their children splattered with blood and being held hostage by gangsters.
Amidst her endless persuasion, the "gangster" finally thought about his request. Shiraishi proposed to meet Chikako Ikeda first before considering releasing him.
Based on what he just said, the mother and daughter immediately suspected that he wanted to kill Chikako Ikeda to vent his anger.
Taketori Atsuko, who had calmed down, cried and struggled again.
Taketori Mie was silent for a long time, then gritted her teeth and returned to the phone on the first floor.
When she held the receiver, she was so ashamed of this selfish act that she almost trembled. She felt that she had lost all her face and conscience in this life.
But when she saw her daughter being dragged downstairs by a man in black next to her... she still dialed the number.
…
Chikako Ikeda was lectured by Taketori Atsuko's mother, and she saw with her own eyes that Atsuko rejected her proposal to move into Ikeda's house, and followed her mother away without looking back.
As soon as the mother and daughter left, Takahashi Ryoichi came to scold her for plagiarism again.
At the same time, her brother also slowly analyzed that the reason Taketori Atsuko was close to her was because he wanted to use her to publish books.
"There are not many good novels nowadays. As long as a book with this kind of novel subject can be published, the sales volume will not be too bad. For today's 'writers', as long as one book is successful, subsequent food and clothing will not be a problem."
Normally, Chikako Ikeda would just think that he was overthinking.
But thinking about what happened today, she couldn't be sure.
When Taketori's mother called, Chikako Ikeda saw the caller ID clearly and plugged the phone in.
But soon, the phone rang again.
After hanging up the phone two or three times, Ikeda Chikako finally couldn't hold it back and picked up the phone, wanting to hear how Taketori Atsuko planned to explain.
…
Shiraishi didn't know whether Chikako Ikeda would come.
Calling her over was just a delaying tactic. In fact, he planned to go to the villa and find Atsuko Taketori's diary so that Chikako Ikeda could completely dispel her doubts about Atsuko Taketori's thoughts.
But unexpectedly, Chikako Ikeda ran over after hearing Taketori Mie explain the whole story.
She originally wanted to go alone as Shiraishi asked, but her brother insisted on calling in many bodyguards and police.
Shiraishi took the opportunity to "escape" and went to the villa to find the diary as planned.
…
It didn't take long for the misunderstanding between the two to be resolved smoothly, and Taketori Mie no longer stood in the way due to various reasons.
Chikako Ikeda graduated first. She opened a publishing house and lived the paddling life she loved. Atsuko Taketori continued to write the novels she loved, but her writing style was completely different from before and became much lighter.
During this period, Chikako Ikeda accompanied Atsuko Taketori to see a psychiatrist.
The previous sudden suicide also scared her. Atsuko Taketori did not resist the incident too much, and her mentality gradually improved with the company of her family.
On the night of Taketori Atsuko's graduation, they held a small reception at home, and each of them prepared rings.
When the ring was put on the opponent's finger, the black cat lying on the cushion next to him suddenly sat up and looked around.
The scene in front of me was like a painting soaked in water and beginning to fade.
After a period of dizziness, Shiraishi stood in the void again.
On the big screen that gradually disappeared, a round crystal crystal formed from Atsuko Taketori's body, floated towards him, and crashed into his own small light screen.
This scene was no stranger to Shiraishi.
But one thing is different from the past - there is another crystal floating from the direction of Taketori's mother.
The already somewhat old woman sighed, but slowly revealed a relieved smile. Her eyes, wrinkled by age, were extremely kind... Just like when she first came in, the Q-version assistant held her in her arms.
Like a small wooden horse.
Baishi was startled for a moment, and before he could think more, a few lines of words were slowly written on the light screen: