Tokyo: Rabbit Police and Her Evil Partner

Chapter 130 Family Collapse
After returning home, Riko asked Kamei Yuta if she was too sensitive and Yuliang was just smiling at her...

He didn't remember what he was thinking at the time, he just remembered saying "hmm".

Riko didn't hear the answer she wanted, so she went back to her room and sulked.

After a moment, she came out again, looking pale and holding a newspaper in her hand.

The headline of the report is about the undercover record of the educational institution "お試し-****camp". The reporter personally experienced that the educational institution recruited a large number of students under the pretext of correcting bad habits such as "staying at home", "truanting from school", and "talking back to parents". With the permission of the guardian, the students were forcibly taken away to make huge profits.

According to reporters' reports, corporal punishment and abuse are prevalent in this educational institution: the nurses will take L-photos of the students, tie them to beds to restrict their freedom, make them use diapers, and even rely on nutritional injections to stay alive... If the students are disobedient, the nurses will imprison them in a dark and damp basement until they surrender.

"Isn't it that family?" Riko asked.

She had always been focused on her son's education. She made a schedule for Youliang's daily routine, which was packed with activities. If Youliang was late for one minute, she would get angry.

Not only that, she even confiscated the pocket money her mother-in-law gave her son, saying that children would spend too much money recklessly. She spent a lot of money to enroll her son in cram schools and training classes, but she was unwilling to spend 500 yen to buy her son a cartoon disc.

Half a year ago, Riko had no idea what kind of bewitching drug the training institution had put on her, and she insisted on sending Youliang to that educational training institution for a year of training.

She always felt that Youliang was averse to studying. Every time her son lost his temper, she would impatiently say, "It's all for your own good," "It's for your future," and "You have to be an independent person to live up to your mother's efforts."... Over time, she got fed up and felt that this was not a solution, so she planned to solve the problem once and for all.

Unexpectedly, only half a year later, Youliang ran away on his own.

Before seeing this newspaper, Riko was still angry.

She had originally thought it through. Once her son got over his aversion to school and studied according to the daily schedule, it would only be a matter of time for him to be admitted to a prestigious university... She was already considering whether her son should apply to the University of Tokyo or Waseda University, but she didn't expect that he would give up halfway, which really disappointed her.

At this moment, Riko's face turned pale, and her lips trembled as she said, "It's fake, right? It must be just the same name, right?"

Youliang shattered her self-deceiving fantasy.

He sat upright on the tatami and said with a smile, "A woman died. On her first day of reporting, the instructor locked her in a hollow cement pipe and deprived her of food and water for two days. When she came out, she looked like a pig, stripped naked and washed with a high-pressure water gun."

"Later, she made a mistake, and the caregiver grabbed her hands and feet and slammed her hard onto the concrete floor. At first, she was able to beg for mercy, but after four or five hits, she began to vomit blood and became a puddle of mud."

"The nurse said she was pretending, and that it was just a blow to her back. How could it kill her? So they pulled the woman's hands and feet and lifted her up high, saying they wanted to knock her awake. With a snap, I heard the sound of bones cracking. It could have been her neck or her ribs, I don't know, but she was dead."

"The instructor slapped her several times and poured water into her mouth, but couldn't wake her up. Only then did they realize something was wrong and hurriedly dragged the body away."

"The next day, her mother came to the school to sign, received compensation, and took the body away. I heard clearly that before the woman died, she was still calling her mother to save her; but when her mother left, she just said that her daughter had a bad fate."

"The death of a person is like the death of an animal."

……

Lizi covered her ears and screamed at him to stop talking. But Youliang kept talking, which made her tremble with fear and burst into tears. She slapped herself and said that it was her mother's fault, her mother was wrong, and her mother was doing it for your own good, but she was deceived...

"Ah."

Forgiveness does not argue or refute. This word was like a needle that pierced into Riko's heart. Even if her son scolded her, beat her, and resented her, she would not feel so uncomfortable.

Lizi begged for mercy, asking Youliang if he could forgive her. The latter smiled and said that he didn't hate his mother at all. Lizi burst into laughter, she wanted to make it up to her son, and quickly asked him where he wanted to go to play...

"No, I want to study. When I get into a good university and make some money, I'll send you there for training."

Youliang said it so bluntly.

Riko was horrified, Kamei Yuta was furious. They scolded, beat and scolded, asking Youliang to apologize. The latter did as they were told, but still had a smile on his face. Only then did they realize that not only the mother was disqualified, but also the father, and the status relationship in this family was distorted and unbalanced.

So they took their son to see the psychiatrist again, and the same doctor. The latter talked to Youliang for a few words and suggested that Lizi make an appointment. He suspected that Lizi's mental state was not normal...

Riko was devastated and she walked out of the hospital in silence.

After that, she began to frequently ask her husband, "Did I do something wrong?" and "How can I make it up to him?" No matter how Kamei Yuta answered, she was not satisfied.

She began to become sensitive, irritable, and anxious, constantly lowering herself to please Youliang. The schedule she had worked so hard to customize was swept into the wastebasket, and she bought whatever her son wanted. This behavior did not seem like spoiling, but rather like compensation due to guilt.

Kamei Yuta thought that the mother and daughter seemed to have a secret code. A casual word from Youliang could make Riko burst into tears or make her ecstatic.

One day, Kamei Yuta came home early and overheard Youliang yelling at Riko to die. He was furious and wanted to teach his son a lesson, but was stopped by Riko.

"He's just a child, he doesn't understand anything, don't bother with him..." Riko said.

Youliang apologized and said, "Yes, I really didn't understand my mother's good intentions. After all, my mother was doing it for my own good. I was too ignorant."

His tone was calm, as if he was sincerely apologizing, but Riko lowered her head in pain.

Kamei Yuta couldn't stand it anymore, and he even thought about sending Yuliang back to the educational institution. Even if it meant using corporal punishment, he wanted to correct his son.

However, before he could contact the school, a puppy suddenly appeared in his family.

Riko said that the puppy was a gift from Youliang's girlfriend. When she said this, she smiled and calmed down. Kamei Yuta squatted down, and the furry puppy circled around them, looking particularly cute, which made his tense heart relax.

Riko gave him a name, Marujiro.

She used Marujiro to fill the hole in her heart. She could get the love she couldn't get from Youliang from Marujiro. No matter she was sad or angry, Marujiro would never leave her and would always revolve around her. Even if she accidentally stepped on Marujiro's tail, Marujiro would not bear a grudge.

As long as Marujiro is around, she still has the desire to "live on".

Kamei Yuta didn't realize this. When he came home, Marujiro would run to greet him happily, and Riko would gently say "You're back", and then bring a vegetarian dinner prepared in advance. The atmosphere at home became particularly warm, as if everything had returned to the daily routine that had never collapsed.

Therefore, he gave up the idea of ​​sending Youliang to an educational institution. Even if it was superficial harmony and hypocritical warmth, he did not have the courage to tear it apart.

Riko also started to eat vegetarian food, and she fed all the meat to Youliang and the dog.

(End of this chapter)