Chapter 3 (1/2)

Hearing that they were being urged to enter, Suzuhara opened the door and invited Tsubaki to enter the room.

After preparing herself, Tsubaki took a step inside the room.

“Are you Kurahashi Tsubaki?”

What a clear and strong voice— Tsubaki thought.

There was a man with high stature around his thirties seated on the desk with a large window behind him.

Although Tsubaki had only seen the picture of the man’s face inside the game in Kyousouke’s Route 12 years later, they had a same ambiance.

With a hair that was combed back, he was a person who had a sharp glint in his eyes that could probably kill a small sized bear bare-handed, with only his stare. (EN: Well that’s an exaggeration and a half.) (TN: SHHHHH!!! Don’t said that! He’s looking at you! He’s looking at you right now!!)

Slanted eyes that let out a coldhearted impression, with long and well proportioned limbs. A well trained body that others could tell even with his suit on.

And the atmosphere he was clad in can tell that he is a person with absolute confidence in himself.

This person was Mizushima Haruki. Tsubaki’s mother’s, Kurahashi Yuriko’s, big brother and the next Director of Mizushima group. Inside the game he already became the Director of Mizushima group but, it seems like he is still in the Managing Director’s position currently.

Because that glint in your eyes is just too sharp. Can’t you soften them even for a bit towards children? Tsubaki let out a curse inside her mind.

“You can’t answer my question?”

“Ah, I am Kurahashi Tsubaki.”

Because she was thinking about something that was irrelevant, Tsubaki was late in giving her reply and introduced herself in a hurry.

With a tone that didn’t let out any emotions, Tsubaki could not tell what her uncle was thinking and that it has filled her heart full with discomfort.

After the uncle stared at Tsubaki as if he was doubting something, he let out a small sigh.

“That’s strange. Your father always showed me a picture of Tsubaki but, what was photographed in there was not you. Are you really Tsubaki?”

When Tsubaki heard what the uncle had said, even if it was just a little, Tsubaki can somehow guess what happen in the background.

Tsubaki suspected that the picture her uncle saw was probably a photo of Mio.

Her father probably showed a picture of Mio to her uncle, and said it was Tsubaki. In other words, her father lied to her uncle. He considers Tsubaki as a dangerous element who will expose the deed he has done if given the opportunity, and if she did escape and ask for help to rescue her mother, it would bring trouble to him. So, in order for Tsubaki to not be recognized, he showed a fake picture of her.

That is why her uncle was suspicious and vigilant towards Tsubaki in front of him, who was entirely different from the Tsubaki that was showed in the picture.

Tsubaki has a weak body so she can’t go outside. Her mother was still in recovery so it will only worsen her health if she goes out. These reasons, her father probably used these kind of excuses to deceive her uncle for five years to make sure her uncle couldn’t meet with Yuriko, her little sister. And if her uncle would insist on meeting with them, her father would probably stick with the excuses.

Tsubaki felt that it was probably only Fumiko and her mother who thought that her mother and father eloped.

At the point where there was an exchange between her uncle and her father, Tsubaki already became doubtful about the story of her parents eloping.

Tsubaki thought that the moment her father showed the picture of ‘Tsubaki’ to her uncle, he would recognize her niece immediately, and would probably have concern towards his niece and his little sister.

Tsubaki’s conjectures were quite vary on the small details, but she was on spot on the broad parts.

As a matter of fact, her uncle who saw Tsubaki for the first time, felt that the Tsubaki that was showed to him in the pictures were fake.

This was because the Tsubaki that was in front of him right now had a spitting image of his little sister, especially her eyes. They looked very similar, unlike the pictures that were shown to him.

However, he couldn’t just readily take in what Tsubaki had said. This was because Haruki couldn’t find a reason as to why Tsubaki came all the way here.

Tsubaki felt that her father’s way of thinking was too disappointing when she became aware that her father had showed a fake picture of Tsubaki to her uncle.

Even if you made a lie as a temporary measure one day, it would be exposed anyway. Why? Tsubaki could only ask this question toward her father in her mind.

In the first place, the moment her father invited his lover together with their child to the family was already a foolish action.

Mother too. What’s so good about that good-for-nothing father to begin with? Tsubaki’s mind began to be filled with questions and wanted to go to ask her mother directly.

Is it his face? Or maybe he is a smooth talker? Or possibly both? Tsubaki could only imagine how her father looked like as she had never met him in the first place.

After coming this far, Tsubaki could only think of her father as just a fraudster.

No matter what, I will make sure my parents divorce.Tsubaki began to anew her determination.

Her uncle still held doubt towards Tsubaki who was in front of him, but Tsubaki possessed a convincing evidence to prove that she is the real Tsubaki.

Yes, the letters from her mother and Fumiko.

Tsubaki doesn’t know what was written in the letters because she didn’t read them but, probably