Chapter 724: Powerful Noble

“Since you don’t want to go to school tomorrow, then you won’t go. You’ll just take a good rest inside your home and readjust your state.” Sakai Aiko listened to her son’s words and said.

“Shota, you must go to school tomorrow. If you don’t go to school, then there will be more right and wrong about you. Don’t add more trouble to your sister and brother-in-law.

I also don’t want to fly over again to deal with matters concerning you. If you go, even the people who want to have nasty things to say about you will shut up. They’ll be more in awe of you than they have been in the past. Do you know why?” Kazuya Takahashi interjected.

“No idea.” Sakai Shota blurted out.

“Because you committed a crime and were able to come out unscathed as if nothing happened. Just as some hooligans aren’t scary, what’s scary is that when they get into a fight and go to the police, they’re quickly released.

The person who was beaten is in front of the foot to go, others will be released in the foot. Even if it’s clear that it was self-defense, it will be treated as a brawl and honestly locked up for enough time.” Kazuya Takahashi hit the nail on the head.

“I was wrongly accused.” Sakai Shota argued.

“Whether or not you were wrongly accused, you know best. In this world, as long as you are involved with money, power, and influence.

Even if you really committed a crime, there will be people who will help you think of various ways to excuse yourself. If you are a member of the powerful class, then you can be lawless. Unfortunately, you are not a member of the powerful class yet.

The most important thing you need to realize is that among your family, only your own sister Rie is a member of the powerful, and you are not.

Not only that, your mother is not, your father is not, and your sister Mei-Ling is not. Because your last name is Sakai, not Kishimoto.

William Kennedy Smith, a member of the Kennedy family and nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy, was charged with rape. As a final result, he was found not guilty by a judge.

Whether he himself was guilty or not, and whether he was innocent or not, the only person who knows best is the man himself. As for the truth itself, it doesn’t matter much.” Takahashi Kazuya spoke bluntly.

Sakai Shota immediately changed his words, “Kazuya-chan, I’ll listen to you. I will go to school properly tomorrow.”

Kazuya Takahashi’s two-eyed attention shifted from him to Aiko Sakai’s body and said, “Auntie, you can take Shota home first and then take me to that one girl’s house.”

Sakai Aiko didn’t say anything, she did exactly what she was told, after all, the words that he had singled out to his son were clear enough.

Without Rie Sakai’s daughter marrying Masayoshi Kishimoto, Kazuya Takahashi would never have appeared here.

Their family was still just a local middle-class family, and it wouldn’t have been so easy and quick to settle the matter.

The normal course of events would be to hire a local attorney, and then the two sides would enter into a protracted legal battle.

Even if the judge declares Shota Sakai not guilty, it doesn’t mean that the family is the true victor and that good has triumphed over evil.

The time, energy and money spent on this is not a small amount. Even if the court’s decision is official, it won’t change the overly subjective opinions and speculations of the neighbors and others.

Shota Sakai would either be kept in custody, or even if he was released on bail, he would have to pay a high bail amount. In the meantime, he would not be able to go to school at all.

Even if he went to school, he would be pointed at, as well as all sorts of rumors going around. It was better not to go than to suffer.

Nowadays, his son was able to regain his freedom, and that meant that it would allow quite a few people to carry out a shut up. Powerful people could be above the law, while ordinary people could only follow the legal procedures step by step.

Aiko Sakai first dropped her son off in front of the front door of the folkloric inn she ran before driving Kazuya Takahashi to the slum area where the one girl lived.

The reason she was familiar with the area, after all, was that she had visited it herself before Kazuya Takahashi came here. Her original intention was to make a big deal out of it.

It was nothing more than the thought that she couldn’t afford the stigma. But the problem was that she had no leverage in her own hands, so it was not up to her, the initiative was above the other party’s hands.

Sakai Aiko parked her car in front of a two-story old rental apartment building. She showed hesitation and said, “Can you really handle it?

I’m not going to lie, I came here before you and hit a brick wall. That family is not a nice and virtuous people to talk to.”

Takahashi Kazuya smiled faintly and said, “I’ve seen plenty of murderers, will I still be afraid of them? I’ll be fine going alone. Auntie, why don’t you wait for me inside the car?”

“Let’s go together!” Sakai Aiko put her heart on the line.

Takahashi and Kazuya didn’t try to persuade her any further, so they got out of the car with her on the left and right. As soon as they got out of the car, there happened to be a door of a house that opened.

A middle-aged man was dragged by a middle-aged woman’s hands and said, “You can’t take all the money.”

“Don’t block me from going to play with Brother Pachinko. Today, I have an extremely strong premonition that I will hit the jackpot. At that time, I’ll come back and bring you all to eat and drink spicy food.”

The middle-aged man was trying to find ways to break free from his woman’s hands, while he couldn’t wait to go inside the pachinko parlor to gamble on the road.

When he saw Sakai Aiko, his face suddenly changed and he said aggressively, “What are you still doing here? You are not welcome here. Two million yen and you want to buy us off and send us away to beg for food?

Without twenty million yen, everything is off the table. If you can’t come up with the money, then that asshole son of yours is going to jail. He raped my daughter. He’s a rapist.”

The middle-aged woman suddenly released her hands from holding her man and jumped out with her, “That’s right. If we don’t have twenty million yen, don’t think we’ll stop.”

Takahashi Kazuya looked at the appearance of these two people across from him, and without the need for Sakai Aiko to say anything, he knew that they were the parents of that one girl.

They really weren’t good people. If they were, they wouldn’t accept any more money, and would rather have the abuser punished by the law.

“Not to mention twenty million yen, not even two yen.” Takahashi Kazuya said bluntly.

The middle-aged man and woman froze. This was completely just outside their expectations. The two of them had gone back and forth on the idea of making an offer of twenty million yen in order to strive for more so that they could have a bargaining space with the other party.

At that time, even if the Sakai family couldn’t come up with that much money, the bottom line would have to be ten million yen. It couldn’t be any less. Otherwise, they would have suffered a big loss and would never let it go.