Tokyo: Rabbit Police and Her Evil Partner

Chapter 206 The Bad Boy's Counterattack
Kei Horie lay in the dark container and closed his eyes. After the believers quieted down, he fell asleep unconsciously. In his light and turbid dream, he dreamed of his sister again.

Junko is different from herself, she is a smart girl.

Since elementary school, Junko has always been at the top of the class. She is introverted and likes reading. Over time, she became nearsighted and always wore thick glasses.

Kei Horie's personality is exactly the opposite of his sister's. He has been rebellious since he was a child, often skipping classes and fighting. After entering high school, he naturally became a so-called "bad boy", often participating in riots or demonstrations.

His parents were very worried and advised him to be more obedient. But Kei Horie thought his parents were conservative and old-fashioned, and they didn't dare to fight back. They would be eliminated by the times sooner or later... They often quarreled, and Kei Horie often ran away from home. Every time, Junko went out to look for him and persevered in persuading him to return home.

If it weren't for Junko, he would probably be hanging out with gangsters on the street, or painting graffiti with punk gangs, leading a precarious life.

It wasn't until he graduated from high school that Kei Horie realized how hard life was.

Nowadays, it is very difficult to find a decent job with only a high school diploma. He can only earn a meager salary by physical labor, doing repetitive work day after day, either helping to sell fish in a seafood store or working in a convenience store. He sees no hope of making a breakthrough in his future life... It turns out that he is the one who has been eliminated by the times.

Fortunately, Junko didn't have to follow his old path. Junko was very good at studying, and her deviation value remained above 70, so she was able to easily get into an aristocratic private high school.

The family couldn't afford the tuition, and Junko wanted to go to an ordinary home economics high school out of consideration for her parents. Horie Kei said he didn't agree to anything, and he had another big fight with his parents. This time, no matter how Junko persuaded him, he refused to give in.

"Since my family has no money, I will go and make money! I will work very hard, even if I have to work three jobs... Junko is so talented, she should go to a prestigious school, study in college, and live a better life!"

Kei Horie thought so from the bottom of his heart.

After he said this, his parents were relieved and agreed. Their son had grown up and their daughter would have a better future. It didn't matter if they suffered a little, as long as they had hope in life.

In this way, Junko was admitted to a private high school. After hearing the teacher's introduction, her parents also enrolled Junko in an additional cram school... If nothing goes wrong, she will be admitted to Waseda University, and will have more options when looking for a job in the future.

Kei Horie doesn't expect his sister to become rich and powerful, nor does he have any earnest expectations. He just hopes that his sister will have more choices in her future life.

However, after entering high school, Junko became unhappy. Every time she came home, she was listless, often forgot things, and locked herself in her room from time to time. Her mother was very worried about her and knocked on the door from time to time, but Junko refused to meet her.

"I'm fine, I'm just a little tired... I will study hard and live up to everyone's expectations." Junko always said this.

At first, Kei Horie thought his sister was just not used to high school life. After all, her junior high school friends all went to other high schools, and it was normal for her to feel lonely in the new semester.

Kei Horie got up early and went to bed late, busy fulfilling his promise, and had no time to care about his sister's feelings. He just thought that after a while, when Junko made new friends, she would naturally cheer up.

As time went by, Junko not only did not become cheerful, but became more and more withdrawn. As Junko's family, they should have noticed Junko's abnormality earlier... But at that time, something else happened at home, causing everyone to ignore Junko, the most silent one. That's right, the company where her father worked went bankrupt.

Companies that still retain the seniority system naturally do not have enough competitiveness in the new era; but if the seniority system is not retained, my father will definitely be the first employee to be laid off... In short, in the era of the financial bubble burst, everything they encountered is just a microcosm of countless families.

My father tried to find other jobs to support the family, but now he was too old to be employed by the market, and could only do some manual labor, such as unloading goods, plastering, and moving bricks... Before long, his body was exhausted.

His mother took him to the hospital, only to find out that his father's medical insurance had been overdue for more than a year - the bankrupt company not only did not pay for medical insurance for its employees, it even hid the collection bills in the employees' mailboxes.

Without medical insurance, the family had to bear all the medical expenses. Kei Horie borrowed a lot of money from others to pay for a month's hospitalization bill. After a month of recuperation, his father's health improved a little, but he didn't want to continue treatment. If he continued treatment, the family would collapse.

But if we don’t treat it, won’t this family collapse anyway?

Kei Horie had never hated his incompetence so much. He really regretted that he did not study hard and did not find a capable and long-term job. As a result, when the burden of the family fell on him, he realized that his shoulders could not carry it at all.

His father comforted Kei Horie and told him not to blame himself too much. He didn't need to worry about money.

"Don't always take the blame on yourself. We as parents are also at fault for not providing you with a good education... Don't worry, our family won't have to worry about money soon. You won't have to work so hard to raise money for Junko's tuition."

At that time, Kei Horie didn't understand what his father meant.

It was not until his father died 'accidentally' and the insurance company paid a large sum of insurance money that he realized that his father's words were his last words.

They were already lucky. Many unemployed families tried to commit suicide to get insurance fraud, which led to the bankruptcy of a large number of small and medium-sized insurance companies and also made giant insurance companies strengthen their auditing efforts... His father's death looked so much like an accident that Kei Horie could even deceive himself that his father had simply had an accident.

However, after receiving the insurance money, their lives did not get better, but took a sharp turn for the worse.

Aum Shinrikyo preached to his grief-stricken mother at his father's funeral. At that time, he thought his mother was just looking for a place to rely on, but not long after, he suddenly discovered that all the family savings had been secretly donated by his mother.

"The Venerable will protect us. Once I have completed my hard training and gained super powers, we can start over in the new world and live a happy and fulfilling life together..."

Kei Horie had a big fight with his mother, and the next day his mother hid in the church and refused to see him again. Kei Horie had no choice but to go to school to find Junko, hoping that his sister could persuade his mother to change her mind, but he learned that Junko had been expelled from school... The reason was that she was having an affair with an outsider, spreading L photos, and having contact with bad people.

Overnight, the family was shattered, and he was left alone, struggling to survive in the storm.

(End of this chapter)