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Just as Kudo Yukiko was left speechless, the attack from across the way came crashing in like a tidal wave. Mrs. Suwa planted her hands on her hips and continued berating her. "Don't think that taking such good care of yourself and having a child with him means you can take my place! I'm telling you, Mikio and I are true love!—True love has absolutely nothing to do with whether you have children!"
What the hell was all this nonsense?!
Kudo Yukiko was speechless. In her panic, she randomly found a point to refute and yanked Jiang Xia over. "What child with him—look carefully! With Fujieda Mikio looking like that, could he possibly produce a child like this?!"
Mrs. Suwa froze, finally shifting her gaze away from the "mistress" and toward the "illegitimate son" who had been hidden behind the main gate just now.
Sure enough, whether it was his face or his build, this "illegitimate son" did not resemble Fujieda Mikio in the slightest. Could it really be as the mistress said—was this not her and Mikio's child?
...Hm? Wait, why did this heart-stirring face seem more and more familiar the longer she looked at it?
After staring blankly for a moment, Mrs. Suwa suddenly recognized him, and her voice rose several notches. "Jiang Xia?!"
"That's right!" Seeing that this terrifying woman knew Jiang Xia, Kudo Yukiko quietly breathed a sigh of relief. It was normal enough that Mrs. Suwa did not know Kudo Yukiko—after all, she had retired too early and did not have many fans among younger people... Fortunately, Jiang Xia was fairly well-known among the younger generation.
Seeing such a Great Detective, she should be able to guess why they had come, right?
With that thought, Kudo Yukiko straightened her back again. Just as she