Chapter 634 - Put an End (2/2)

“Picking up a button?”

Takahara Keiko found it hard to believe what he said. “But I thought I heard you talking to someone in here,” she said.

“Nonsense. There is no one here. You must have been hearing things,” Takahara Kei replied. He had deliberately put on a casual look on his face, but deep down, he was feeling anxious.

“Really?” Takahara Keiko took another look around the study room doubtfully.

“Of course, it is true. There’s only you and me here. There’s no one else.”

Takahara Kei coughed and changed the subject immediately. He asked, “Right, Keika. Have you packed your bags?”

“Yes, yes. I’m just waiting for you,” Takahara Keika said, nodding her head excitedly.

“Alright, wait for me in the garage. I will come down after looking for some books,” Takahara Kei said.

“Hurry then! Stop moving so slowly. You are like an old man who is already seventy or eighty years old,” Takahara Keiko moaned.

“Alright,” Takahara Kei replied and chuckled.

“Hurry up!”

Takahara Keiko pouted her lips, turned around, and left.

Thump, thump, thump.

As Takahara Keika’s footsteps, Takahara Kei turned around, bowed to the empty study room, and said, “Thank you.”

“You have three days.”

An icy voice came from behind the bookshelf. Then, Xiao Luo walked out and said, “I’ll be here again in three days.”

“Three days. That is more than enough,” Takahara Kei nodded his head gratefully.

…

“Drinking an entire bottle of coke in one gulp. Going to the men’s toilet to pee. To eat a meal without paying…”

Takahara Kei could not help but laugh when he read the list of activities his daughter had listed. After going to the seaside, he did those ten activities with her. It felt like he was reliving those teenage days of his. And, after a very long time, Takahara Kei was genuinely happy.

“Daddy, aren’t you busy these couple of days?”

Takahara Keika could not help asking as she sat in the passenger seat. Her father was perpetually busy. But he had spent the entire day with her, and his phone had not rung at all. It was unbelievable.

“I am busy. But my precious daughter is more important. Keika, where else do you want to go? Daddy will accompany you there,” Takahara Kei said.

“Daddy, you’re the best!” Takahara Keika chirped.

Then with a nod, she continued, “I want to go to the sacred mountain to look at the snow.”

Sacred mountain?

The color on Takahara Kei’s face changed a little. That was a place that brought him much regret and fear. He suddenly felt the natural anguish of a man released from prison after serving a sentence, having to revisit the scene of his crime. But he quickly calmed himself down and said, “Alright. Let’s go look at the snow.”

After saying that, they headed toward Mount Fuji.

On the third day, the death of the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, Oi Ichiro was on the news. Another person related to the genetic engineering research base had died.

That night, Takahara Kei sat in his study room looking at a video of Takahara Keika. She was still a toddler then, and she was just learning how to walk. He had a peaceful smile on his face as he slowly closed his eyes. On his study desk was an empty bottle of sleeping pills.

Before that, he had already amended his will. His ex-wife would now be the guardian of Takahara Keika.