【☆★Notice★☆】 In the afterword,
there is a very important announcement written.
I would be glad if you could read to the end. Okaya’s ex-wife, Misae.
She had angered the Wrath of Narita Kogen (Kageno).
Upon Okaya’s request, Kageno came to dispose of Misae…
“Haa…! Haa…! Keuh-keuh!”
Currently, Misae was trembling under an elevated highway.
“Damn it… Damn yo… Why did this have to happen…”
Misae and Juugami Toshie had been placed in a limousine driven by Inukawa Saburo.
And while being transported to some unknown destination…
Misae leaped out of the moving limousine and fled.
She jumped out of the door while on a bridge.
Misae threw herself into the river without hesitation. ……And that is how things stand now.
“Ow…… goddamn it…… it hurts so much……” Misae was soaked to the skin.
Furthermore, when she leaped from the limousine, she had broken her arm and cracked a rib.
And yet, in that condition, she dove straight into the river. The damage to her body was severe.
“I g-gotta…… run…… I have to run…… if I don’t r-run……”
Even if she wanted to run, where could she even go? ……She had no home to return to.
Ever since leaving Okaya’s place, she couldn’t bring herself to face her family and had been living on the streets as a homeless person……. No.
“I’m done with pride now. I’ll ask my father and the others for help……”
At this point, Misae had no choice but to rely on her parents.
Even reaching this far, still expecting a savior is truly remarkable—ironic, even.
Dragging her painful body, Misae made her way toward her childhood home. And then…… “What the hell…… is this……” Misae was struck with shock.
The thing that should have been right in front of her was gone.
“W-Wait, where’s my house…? Why… is it just a vacant lot…?”
Misae’s childhood home was gone. Not metaphorically—literally vanished.
The Nagano family’s real home had disappeared from existence.
“W-What? I don’t get it… why? Did Dad and Mom sell the house and move out or somethin’?”
As Misae muttered this, passersby stared at her like she was a weirdo.
Misae approached one of the pedestrians and asked.
“Hey! There was a house here, right?! What happened to it?! Did they move out?!”
The pedestrian flinched and tried to escape.
But Misae grabbed their hand and kept grilling them.
“I-I don’t know! There was definitely a house here until just the other day, but I looked up one morning and it was gone. The demolition crew showed up and bulldozed the whole thing in no time flat.”
“Then… then where did the people living there go?! What happened to the Nagano family?!” And then…
“The Naganos? Were they even here…?” ”…Huh?” What the hell is he talking about…?
The Nagano family—meaning, her parents should have been living here.
Since the house was destroyed, that meant they were somewhere else.
“W-were my dad and mom…” “I don’t know!”
With that, the passerby walked away. Her parents were gone. She had no idea where they were.
She didn’t have her cell phone or her wallet. There was no way to contact them. “No way…” Just then—
“Oh, excuse me, do you have a moment for a quick word?”
A man in a coat and sunglasses struck up a conversation with her. “W-what the hell do you want?” “I’m a detective with the Public Security Bureau.”
“Here,” he said, showing her his police ID.
【Muuichiro Niwaki - Detective, Public Security Division】
“Could I please ask you a few questions?” Police… Police!
“Help! I’m being chased by some bad guys!”
She couldn’t rely on her parents. That left her no choice but to seek protection from the state’s authority. “Bad guys, huh?” “Oh, over there.”
…Into that space stepped a burly man wearing sunglasses. Saburo Enegawa.
The same man who had tried to kidnap me somewhere else.
“Ah, it’s him! He was trying to abduct me! Catch him! Hurry up!” And then… “Oh, is that you, Papa?” “Hey there, Saburo.” What the hell.
Were Saburo and this detective really chatting amiably? “What do you know, Saburo.”
“I was hunting that guy down. The Kamakura family ordered me to [dispose] of her. But she managed to slip away, you see.” “Oh my, you’re such a failure, Saburo.” Clink. ”……………Huh?”
The detective handcuffed Misae’s wrist to his arm. “What?—I mean, uh?” “Here you go, Saburo.” “Oh, th-thank you, Dad.” I didn’t understand a single thing.
Why is the police force siding with this man? Why……!?
“We hit a rough patch, huh. The Katakura family are figures who can interfere with even the police, after all.” ”!?!?!?!?!” What the hell was that?
The police… no way, they were working for that old man’s side?
Did that mean he was a power player with influence extending even to the cops?
Had I really made an enemy of someone like that……?
“No… I just… I only… cheated… so why… why am I ending up like this…” Then Saburo spoke up.
“No, it’s because she cheated, isn’t it? There’s a law against cheating, right?”
It was such an indisputable truth that not even a protest could be squeezed out of her. [★Important Announcement] A new serialized story has started!
『[Serialized Version] The Middle-Aged Saintess Becomes a Stepmother in the Neighboring Country — Too Late to Cower Down When They Finally Realize I’m the Real One and She Was the Fake. Being Spoiled Rotten by My Cute Stepson and the Handsome Emperor~』
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