"Teacher," the apprentice, who had an innocent appearance, suddenly changed his calm expression and said indifferently. "As the son of Sohei Dejima, I ask you to answer a question - the truth about the fraud you accused my father of twenty years ago."

"Sohei Dejima?" Both Hiroharu Nagano and Lady Nagano had unconcealed consternation on their faces at the same time, and a look of shame appeared on Nagano's face afterwards.

"Aren't you going to say that?" The apprentice – or more appropriately called Dejima – said again. "Do you have the courage to do it, but not the courage to say it?"

"Let's talk about it," Gregory said, looking at Hiroshi Nagano, who was very hesitant. "Otherwise, I can't guarantee that your condition will not recur - don't look at me like that, your condition is already unstable, and I don't need to do anything to let you die. Besides, even if you do something, you will have long passed the retroactive time limit for the crime of defamation, and no one will be able to prosecute you. (The 2013 Penal Code states that the maximum penalty for defamation is 3 years + 500,000 yen, and the statute of limitations for this crime of not exceeding 5 years is 3 years before 04, so the defamation fraud 20 years ago has now passed the time limit for prosecution and cannot be prosecuted.) So, instead of dying in vain, why don't you tell a story and open our eyes? ”

"......," Hiroharu Nagano sighed. Forget it, anyway, that's it, I'll tell you about it. ”

—————— dividing line of memory

Twenty years ago.

[My friend Atsuji seems to have repossessed the house he rented to me for free because he was going to do some experiments, so I had to rent a house in another place. Through his introduction, I met one of his friends, Sohei Dejima. 】

[That guy has two adjacent houses in a nice neighborhood, so he rented one to me and waived my rent for a year. 】

[My family wasn't in a good situation at the time, and because I was working on a project that was very promising, but it needed a lot of start-up capital, so I was very short of money – not only did I lack the funds to do it, but I didn't even have the ability to pay the rent after a year. 】

[The fanaticism for this project overweighed my conscience, so I began to plan how I would keep the house for myself. 】

[I manipulated the rental contract, but instead of adding a clause that was favorable to me, I used the package to add a few lines of clause in small print to the standard contract he gave me, which was very favorable to him. 】

[So, after a year has passed, I used the public media to ferment this overlord clause that is unequal to me, and successfully pushed Dejima Shohei to the opposite side of public opinion. I even used the power of public opinion to drive the judicial power and force the court to make a first-instance judgment that the contract was invalid. Of course, it wouldn't have been of much benefit to me if I had just been sentenced to fraud again, so I finally settled out of court with Izushima before Izushima appealed and the second-instance verdict was made. In exchange for his reputation, I was given permanent ownership of the house – I did it at the right time, he was competing for an important prize, so he was so important to his reputation that he was forced to settle out of court with me. 】

[And then there's a crazy story - I mortgaged about fifteen million yen on that house and put it all into the project I was working on. If my research project doesn't produce results, or if the results don't turn into practical use, I'm done. 】

When he said this, Koji Nagano smiled proudly.

[It was a crazy time, day and night experimenting with all kinds of materials that I had bought before, and testing whether the materials could meet the requirements. The hard work paid off, and I was able to find a product that would keep it all going – a finished product that was so cheap that it was completely commercializable, and it wasn't particularly difficult to produce. 】

[I once thought about compensating for the damage I caused to Sohei Dejima, but then every time I tried to apologize, I was closed, and I couldn't finally beg for his forgiveness......]

"That's because my father was gone then!" Dejima rudely interrupted Hiroharu Nagano's memories, and his expression indicated that his emotions were a little out of control.

"My father already had a heart condition, and soon after settling out of court with you, his condition suddenly deteriorated, and he eventually passed away after rescue efforts failed."

"I'm really sorry......" Koji Nagano bowed his head.

"You don't need to be sorry," a sneer appeared at the corner of Dejima's mouth. "After my father died, I vowed to avenge my father. I was in junior high school and my grades were very bad. But because you're a professor of chemistry at Toto University, if I want to get close to you, I have to become a chemistry student at Toto University, and then get close to you with good enough grades. ”

"That's why I studied hard and worked hard to strengthen myself, and finally I succeeded in becoming a chemistry student at Toto University, and I succeeded in becoming a student of Mr. Nagano. After five years of hard work, I was able to watch you teach the course from my seat on the podium, and after another ten years of hard work, I became one of your assistants. After another four years, I finally have a high enough status in your eyes to become the third disciple to come to your home. I waited another year to get a certain level of seniority so that the police wouldn't have any bad first feelings about me after the crime because I had just arrived at your house and you died. ”

"I've been preparing for this revenge for twenty years," Dejima looked at Koji Nagano with a sickly expression. "Can you understand how much I hate you?"

Dejima's hand in his trouser pocket suddenly left his trouser pocket, and with a metallic grinding sound, a blade symbolizing death burst out of his fist-like hand.

"Die!" After a loud shout, Deshima, with a crazy look on his face, took a step forward, and then stabbed the blade at Koji Nagano.

“！！！” Although he was standing behind Dejima, so it was impossible to be the target of his assassination, Chiba was still taken aback. After being stimulated back to a calm state by the auxiliary unit, he immediately looked at Gray Yuan Ai, who was standing with Yuan Tai and the others two or three meters away.

He saw that Gray Yuan's expression was quite complicated, and no matter how he looked at it, it seemed to suddenly shift from contemplation to shock.

At this moment, a crisp sound came from the side of Dejima.

"I'm sorry," Gregor said as he pressed Deshima's hand with his cane, looking at the dagger that had been discarded on the mattress and grabbed by Kaede Hoshino, who had reacted quickly. "This is a hospital, not an execution ground."

Gregory apparently guessed what Dejima wanted to do based on the change in his tone, and immediately after Dejima made a move, he spun around his cane and smashed Dejima's hand directly into the mattress, and the dagger in Dejima's hand was also smashed out of his hand.

"It doesn't have to be this way to enforce justice," Gregory slowly withdrew his cane. "Revenge with violence like you can really only be said to be the least intelligent way to do it."