Holmes of Kyoto: Volume 7 by Mai Mochizuki

Author:Mai Mochizuki [MOCHIZUKI, MAI]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

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When Yoshie had calmed down, Holmes brought us hot chocolate.

“Here you go.”

He must have thought that something sweet would help her relax.

“Thank you, Kiyotaka.” Yoshie sipped her drink, looking like she was still on the verge of tears.

“So, what happened?” Holmes asked again, sitting down across from her.

“W-Well...” Tears rose to her eyes once more.

“A-Are you okay, Yoshie?” I asked, panicking.

Holmes quietly waited for her to continue.

“You see...” she began.

Yoshie’s story was as follows: her period hadn’t come for about two months now, and she had secretly thought she might be pregnant. Even though there were risks associated with giving birth at her age, she’d wanted to have the child of the person she loved—but she hadn’t known if the owner would accept it.

I couldn’t contain my shock. I mean, the owner’s in his late seventies. Is it even possible to conceive a child at that age? Moreover, while I obviously knew that Yoshie and the owner were lovers, I thought it was more of a...spiritual thing. I didn’t realize it was a physical relationship too. I shook my head, not wanting to think about it too deeply.

Holmes, on the other hand, didn’t seem fazed. “And you went to the hospital today?” he asked softly.

“Yes, and they said my cycle was just irregular because of my age. I’m not pregnant.” She sniffed.

“Did that come as a shock to you?”

“W-Well, yes, but that was just the funny part of the story.”

Phew. So she wasn’t actually sobbing over that.

“So then I told Seiji what happened,” she continued. “I said my period hadn’t come in two months, and I thought I might be pregnant, but it turned out I’m just getting old. It’s a funny story, right? And then I asked, ‘What would you have done if I really was pregnant?’”

“Oh, I can see why you’d ask that,” I said. If I were in her position, I would’ve asked too.

“And Seiji said, ‘It’s the woman who struggles with either option, so I’d let you decide. I’d recognize the child as mine and provide support, and if you didn’t want to raise them, I’d take them in myself. But I wouldn’t be able to marry you.’” She sobbed again. “It was just a what-if scenario since I’m not actually pregnant, but he said it so strongly!”

I really sympathized with her. The owner might have said that because of how old he was, but it still would’ve been a shock to be told, “I won’t marry you.”

“And then I remembered...a rumor I heard about Seiji before,” she said.

A rumor about the owner?

“I heard that he and his ex-wife, Tsubaki, separated in a horrible way. The public thinks his wife got fed up with his free-spirited nature and left him, but in reality, she was dying from an illness, and he shoved divorce papers at her, saying, ‘I don’t need a dying wife.’ I couldn’t believe the rumor when I heard it, but what if Seiji really does have that sort of attitude towards marriage?” She slumped forward onto the counter, bawling her eyes out.

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