Seeing Haga Kyosuke's expression gradually turn strange, Fujino did not continue asking about the other route to getting rich.
Instead, he asked the key question. "So, the old man who headed the Shitara family and now had lung cancer coveted your father's violin, then had your father killed, pocketed the violin for himself, and later made up the excuse that it was a birthday gift?"
"More or less." Haga Kyosuke took a deep breath. "But they didn't kill him with their own hands. After my father discovered the forged violin, he got into an argument with my uncle and was pushed down the stairs."
"The most crucial part was that after it happened, he didn't call an ambulance. Instead, he had the Shitara family members who had attended his birthday party tie him up, then made everyone leave. They didn't send my father to the hospital until the next morning... So it was no different from killing him himself."
"This family really was something else. One person would have been bad enough, but not a single person in the entire family raised an objection." Fujino stroked his chin and could not help complaining. "They got their own brother killed over a violin? Was a human life really less important than a violin?"
"Exactly." Haga Kyosuke agreed. "If even one person had suggested taking my father to the hospital, maybe he wouldn't have been dragged there only the next morning, left severely injured in a vegetative state, and eventually died. My mother wouldn't have died caring for my comatose father either..."
Fujino caught the key point. "So you should have been very young at the time. How did you find out about this?"
"I only learned about it two years ago." Haga Kyosuke took a deep drag from his cigarette and