The Case Files of Jeweler Richard Vol. 6 by Nanako Tsujimura

Author:Nanako Tsujimura [Tsujimura, Nanako]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: light novel
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2023-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

“I’VE BEEN HAVING IT REAL ROUGH. Mom died, you know—that would be your grandma. Pneumonia. She was 95. I bet you miss her. I miss her, too. And I’ve got no one to cook for me and no pension now, either.”

There are any number of restaurants open late in Tokyo. The man began chatting happily as we made our way to the second floor of a fast-food joint. I could have theoretically just ignored him and gone home. In fact, I tried to do just that at the last two restaurants we went into, but he kept following me and started saying he’d just have to drop by Hiromi’s then, so I reluctantly let him talk. That said, I was pretty sure he was lying about knowing Hiromi’s address, but I couldn’t be sure.

“How old are you now, Seigi? I heard you’re in college. I heard someone call a kid your full name back when I was lazing about Meguro and that really surprised me. One of Hiromi’s old workplaces told me your last name’s Nakata now. I thought it might’ve been you so I tried asking, but he didn’t know anything but the name of the school you’re at. You sure are smart, Seigi. My old man went to Kasaba, too, you know. That’s my boy. He was studying law, though.”

“So I went to your school saying my son attends Kasaba University, but I don’t know what department he’s in, but they wouldn’t tell me anything even though I had documents to prove I’m your father. I guess they’re even strict with the parents these days. After that I just started looking all over the place. Shinjuku, Shibuya, et cetera.”

“But I didn’t expect to find you in Ginza. I like Ginza, too.”

“You remind me of my old man, Seigi. You’ve gotten so handsome.”

As his nonsense flowed in one ear and right out the other, I abruptly cut in.

“Lemme guess, you need money?”

“Huh?”

“Is that why you were looking for me? Because you’re broke?”

That’s the kind of man he was.

His name was Hisashi Shimeno. He should be turning forty-nine this year. He was my biological father and, as far as I knew, one of the worst and most useless people out there. I didn’t think even ten years would have changed that.

The man, with his unsettlingly childish features and medium build clad in a filthy green polo shirt, knitted his eyebrows as if to suggest my glare was upsetting him as he tried to brush it off with a smile.

“Like I said earlier, Mom died. I miss the old bird. I was livin’ in her house for a while after that, but I fell behind on the water and gas bills and stuff, and they cut me off. I didn’t have a choice—I had to rely on my neighbors to get by. But before I knew it, the house got seized, and I was thrown out. I don’t have a job, so I was in a real pickle.”

Accepting anything this guy

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