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"Please don't put me in a difficult position," Thomas said with a wry smile.
"let..."
Before Ayaka Kamisato could speak, a gentle voice from a young man came from behind her.
"Where is Ayaka going so late?"
Hearing her familiar brother's voice, Ayaka Kamisato's anger seemed to be extinguished by a bucket of water. After a long silence, she turned around and looked at Ayato Kamisato, who had appeared behind her at some point.
"Brother, please don't stop me, okay?"
She simply couldn't bring herself to get angry at her brother.
past life.
After her parents passed away, he sheltered her from all the storms and raised her with great difficulty.
No matter what, he would always stand in front of her, shielding her from all the storms.
"Where is Ayaka going?"
"I miss my mother."
Seeing Ayato Kamisato's unchanging, faint smile, Ayaka Kamisato pleaded, "I want to see my mother, brother, please let me go."
Ayato Kamisato smiled and shook his head: "Don't worry, Ayaka."
"My mother will be home safely soon."
"I want to see my mother."
Tears welled up in Ayaka Kamisato's beautiful eyes: "Please don't stop me, brother. I've never asked you for anything before. Please don't stop me today, okay?"
"Let's go back."
Seeing that Ayaka Kamisato still hadn't moved, Ayaka Kamisato sighed and said, "Ayaka, do you want me to place you under house arrest?"
"That's it again."
Ayaka Kamisato gave a bitter smile.
Why have you always been like this?
Why do you always make decisions for me without my consent, as if it's for my own good, but never ask me what I want?
"Brother, please let me go, I'm exhausted."
"I just want to be with my mother, even if it means dying together with her."
Ayato Kamisato neither asked nor answered, but simply said, "Toma, Ayaka is tired. Take her back to rest."
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"Brother, you wanted to see me?"
Lin Jiu'an was staring blankly at the sea view outside the window.
People tend to daydream when they have free time, and his train of thought on the topic of "What exactly happened back then?", which he had just found some time to amuse himself with, was blocked again.
Why did Ayato Kamisato want to kill him?
And in it.
What role does Ayaka Kamisato play?
Qin drove him away because of a misunderstanding.
Ningguang drove him away because his usefulness had disappeared, and keeping him around would only bring her negative effects.
But the Kamisato siblings.
Lin Jiu'an couldn't understand their reasons for doing this.
"Heart Sea."
"Do you know what happened in my past life, around the time I became a wanted criminal and was arrested?"
"Didn't Ying tell you?" Coral Palace Heart Sea asked curiously.
"I didn't hear you."
In my previous life, after I left Inazuma.
To avoid dwelling on the painful memories of this place, he stopped asking about Inazuma. Ying tried to comfort him several times, but he changed the subject and she didn't bring up Inazuma again. The two of them, with only emergency food, never went back to Inazuma even once.
Upon hearing this, Coral Palace Heart Sea began to explain.
After that, she also corresponded with Ayaka Kamisato, who asked her a lot of questions, so she knew quite a bit.
It's probably similar to one of the possibilities Lin Jiu'an was thinking of.
The letter that Ayaka Kamisato wrote to him explained the unfavorable situation of the Inatsume Shogunate and urged him not to return. However, the letter was switched by Toma, the messenger she asked to deliver it, and by the time it reached Lin Jiu'an, it had become the letter that Lin Jiu'an was reading.
After that, Ayaka Kamisato kept her in solitary confinement.
He was not allowed to leave Inazuma and had no way to send any messages out until he was captured, at which point the guards loosened their grip slightly.
“After you were rescued by Ying, brother.”
"She actually wanted to find you, but her brother kept an eye on her and wouldn't let her leave Inazuma..."
Lin Jiu'an didn't really listen to the kind words that Coral Palace Heart Sea said to Kamisato Ayaka.
"Then do you know why they captured me but didn't kill me?"
Coral Palace Xin Hai pondered for a moment, then said, "I don't know the specifics."
"However, there seems to be some news that might be related to this."
"what?"
"A few days after you were rescued by Firefly, 'The Doctor' came to Inazuma."
Upon hearing this, Lin Jiu'an immediately felt that the problem that had been troubling him all afternoon was solved, and he smiled.
"I see."
His being discarded after his usefulness was over can be described as a case of the cunning rabbit being killed and the hunting dog being cooked.
It can also be said that this is the inevitable fate of those who fail to implement reforms and innovate without holding power, or those who threaten the interests of the rulers.
Just look at Shang Yang, who was torn apart by chariots, and look at the fate of Zhang Juzheng after his death, and you'll understand.
If Ayato Kamisato insists that it's for the benefit of the Kamisato family, compromising with the other three families and betraying an outsider like himself is acceptable; that's something Ayato Kamisato is capable of doing.
However, it is highly unlikely that he would deceive his sister, Ayaka Kamisato, into doing such a thing against her wishes.
Secondly, once he catches Lin Jiu'an, he will definitely kill him, rather than letting him linger in prison and give Ying a chance to save him.
But let's think about it from another perspective.
What if the "Doctor" is interested in him?
When Ayato Kamisato learned of this, he felt that Ayaka Kamisato was doomed to have no future if she followed him, someone who was being targeted by the "Doctor".
then.
On one hand, it was for the happiness of his younger sister.
On the one hand, it was for the benefit of the Shinri family.
Ayato Kamisato decided to betray him to appease the anger of the other three magistrates.
He was locked up in jail, waiting for "the Doctor" to come and take him away.
However, due to various reasons, "Doctor" arrived a step slower than Ying, which allowed him to escape unscathed.
If we follow this line of reasoning, then it's no wonder that Ayaka Kamisato never mentioned that she was taking the blame for Ayato Kamisato.
That's probably how she sees it.
She took the blame for her brother, and Lin Jiu'an might spare her life, allowing her brother, as an 'innocent', to also live.
But if she tells the truth, she might survive.
But her older brother, who had raised her like a father after their parents' death and sheltered her from the storms of life, was destined to die.
The Kamisato family will definitely be destroyed.
"interesting."
"Humans are really interesting things."
Lin Jiu'an smiled happily, looked at Shen Li Hua Dai, and touched her sensitive cheek under her fearful gaze.
"Come on, let's make a choice."
"Only one of your son and daughter can live."
Tell me, who do you want dead?
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The Kamisato family home, Kamisato Ayaka's room.
Ayaka Kamisato, looking haggard, curled up on the bed.
"Miss, would you like to have something to eat?"
The maid knelt on the ground, holding food, and pleaded, "You haven't eaten for seven days."
"If this continues, your body will starve."
Ayaka Kamisato stared blankly out the window toward Umijima Island, as if she could see her mother there, completely oblivious to what was happening outside.
"You haven't been doing well lately."
Sudden.
A familiar, teasing male voice sounded behind her.
Ayaka Kamisato trembled.
Her beautiful eyes held fear, but even more so sadness and a sense of relief.
Turning her head, she saw Lin Jiu'an standing by the bed, while the maids who had been trying to persuade her to eat had collapsed on the floor.
Ayaka Kamisato laughed and said, "Are you here to kill me?"
"Please, can you bury me with my mother? Please."
"I'm here to give you a chance."
Lin Jiu'an took out a small porcelain bottle from his pocket and placed it next to her along with a letter.
"This is poison. It will make people feel as if their internal organs are burning from the inside out, and they will die from the pain of being torn apart by a thousand knives."
With that, Lin Jiu'an turned and walked outside.
Under Ayaka Kamisato's lifeless gaze, Lin Jiu'an paused slightly at the doorway.
"Oh, right."
“Aside from her desires being a bit too strong lately, your mother is otherwise doing quite well.”
"I've always wanted to see you."
"You know I'm not an unreasonable person."
“If you are still alive after everything is over, then I can arrange for you and your daughter to meet again.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Jiu'an disappeared through the doorway.
When Ayaka Kamisato, whose brain had not eaten or slept properly for several days, finally understood what Lin Jiu'an meant, upon hearing the word "mother," her eyes, which had been like a stagnant pool, seemed to have a drop of water fall into them, causing a ripple.
"Mother."
Ayaka Kamisato murmured to herself, then lowered her head and picked up the letter that was placed beside her legs.
It was indeed my mother's handwriting.
Mother isn't dead?!
Ayaka Kamisato's beautiful eyes shone brightly.
She clutched the letter tightly, examined it carefully for a long time, then held it in her arms and carefully picked up the small porcelain bottle containing the poison.
A look of extreme pain appeared on his face.