Mysterious Letter

"That's right, but the old man is still alive. He just left Tokyo and stopped handling family affairs a long time ago."

Amamiya Haruki fell into thought.

Hansawa Matsuri, the first head of the Hankawa Family, had been a formidable figure who single-handedly established the family's underworld status. He had retired more than twenty years ago. Even if he were still alive now, how could he know about Yurina Kurotetsu...

"The letter told you to recover Yurina Kurotetsu's royal blood?" Lin Qiye seemed to have thought of something.

"Yes." Hansawa Shi nodded. "But by the time I got there, his body had already been cremated."

"So you set your sights on Yurina Kurotetsu's daughter?"

"...Not exactly." Hansawa Shi paused before continuing, "The letter my grandfather sent didn't mention that Yurina Kurotetsu had a daughter. So when I heard that his body had been cremated, I gave up searching for the royal blood and instead searched Osaka for Yurina Kurotetsu's Magatsu Blade...

While investigating Yurina Kurotetsu, we accidentally discovered that his wife, Kazari Akiko, had originally been the eldest daughter of the Kazari Family. For some reason, she later left the Kazari Family with her daughter and disappeared without a trace.

I activated the agents we had planted in the Kazari Family and discovered that they had been searching for Yurina Kurotetsu's daughter. They had even found a lead, so I followed the trail all the way to Yokohama. I thought that since she was Yurina Kurotetsu's daughter, perhaps the royal blood in her could be useful to me as well. So I laid a trap and lured her to Osaka..."

And that led to everything that followed.

After hearing this, Lin Qiye's doubts only deepened.

Yurina's mother had actually been the eldest daughter of the Kazari Family, one of Kanto's