"Thank you!" After a long while, Mihiko seemed to have made up her mind. She gradually stopped crying, raised her head, and said forcefully to Chen Mo, "Thank you for talking me through this. I understand now. I'll definitely live well from now on!"
Chen Mo nodded, but he felt there was little hope for Mihiko's wish to live well. There was Water Bear's identity, for one thing. For another, Mihiko herself was a beautiful young woman. How could she survive in this dog-eat-dog society?
"Mihiko, your hope of living well probably isn't possible in Japan," Chen Mo said.
"Nani?" Mihiko did not understand what Chen Mo meant.
"You may have no place to stay or hope of surviving in Japan," Chen Mo repeated.
This time, Mihiko heard him clearly. She looked at Chen Mo in bewilderment. She did not understand why she would be unable to live in her own country.
"Think carefully. Why were you kidnapped, and why did they casually kill your parents?"
"The people who kidnapped you were from Yamaguchi! In this country, people from that organization would not normally act so arrogantly. And causing deaths during a kidnapping was absolutely not Yamaguchi's usual way of doing things!" Chen Mo said.
In Japan, those involved in the underworld generally would not harass civilians too much. Sometimes, they would even keep their distance from civilians!
Only if someone had offended them, or borrowed usury loans from them, would the outcome be different!
Under normal circumstances, an ordinary person would never be harassed by those underworld fellows.
Mihiko was stunned by Chen Mo's words. Why, exactly, had this happened?
Chen Mo paused before saying, "I hadn't intended to tell you about this! But a lot happened while I was looking for you, and these things basically happened only