Two days later, in the afternoon, outside the Nakiri family's main gate.
Just after stepping out of the car, Erina saw a hooded, hunchbacked figure slowly walking toward the house and immediately demanded:
"Who are you? What are you doing here?"
The hooded figure turned her head, looking at Erina in a trance, and said in a somewhat hoarse voice:
"So it's Erina, long time no see."
"Mom? You... why have you become so thin? And looking like this."
Erina could not help exclaiming. The beautiful and gorgeous mother in her memory had now become skin and bones, her figure emaciated like a walking corpse.
"I haven't eaten a proper meal for a long time, and I've just been using nutritional supplements to maintain my body recently."
"Even so, it shouldn't come to this, right?"
"Two days ago, I was thrown into jail and spent a lot of money to sort things out. After I got out, I don't know what happened, but suddenly I had no money."
"What do you mean by no money?"
"I mean it literally. My credit card was frozen by the bank for some inexplicable reason, and the cash on hand wasn't enough to buy nutritional supplements. I had to sell a few pieces of jewelry just to scrape together enough for a plane ticket home. Over the past two days, I've only had some water and eaten nothing at all."
As she spoke, Nakiri Mana was powerless, giving off a dying vibe as if she could lose her life at any moment.
"How could this..."
Erina instinctively thought of a certain someone. Judging by the current situation, this should be that person's delayed retaliation.
However, hadn't he said before that it would be fair competition? Why suddenly change his mind?
If that really was