Madam, believe me, how can I be a minotaur?

In recent years, there have been many reports exaggerating the "goodness" of these gang members.

They claim that they no longer engage in violence or bullying but instead maintain their operations by selling meme stickers, bubble tea, and even engaging in public welfare activities and artistic creation.

In short, apart from the tattoos on their bodies, these gangsters seem to have become completely harmless.

However, almost every Japanese person knows that this is not the truth at all but merely a carefully crafted lie by those gang members to whitewash their image.

The simplest example is this:

Gangs always operate casinos and nightclubs, where they issue high-interest loans in the casinos or coerce girls into prostitution in the nightclubs.

Moreover, most of the girls forced to work in these nightclubs are female family members of those gambling addicts who have accumulated high debts.

To maintain the operation of these casinos and nightclubs, they even deliberately set traps to lure people into gambling.

Clearly, the Kanno family is one of the targets of these gang members.

Perhaps some gang members noticed the beautiful mother and daughter, Risa Kanno and Yuna Kanno, and, after investigating, noticed Yuhki Kanno, then found a way to get someone to lure him into gambling.

Or it could simply be that the colleague who lured Yuhki Kanno into gambling disliked him and wanted to mess with him.

In any case, although it is unknown how the Kanno family was targeted, the gang members' plan has now reached the second stage.

That is to get Yuhki Kanno to incur a large high-interest debt in the casino.

After some time, when Yuhki Kanno owes so much money that he cannot repay it.

They will use this debt to force Yuhki Kanno to voluntarily send his daughter and wife over, or they might simply go directly to Risa Kanno and Yuna Kanno and threaten them.

In fact, they had previously hinted at this to Yuhki Kanno, saying that as long as he sent his wife and daughter to work for a period, his debt could be waived.

However, "God of Gamblers" Yuhki Kanno believes in his gambling talent, thinking he can make a comeback through gambling, so he has never agreed.

These underhanded tactics of the gangs are, in Japan, not exactly known to everyone, but almost every household is aware of them.

So Risa Kanno is actually very clear that everything Makoto Asano said is true.

It's just that she doesn't want to... or rather, doesn't dare to admit it.

As for the amount of debt Yuhki Kanno owes, she doesn't know the exact figure.

Although Yuhki Kanno said it was 40 million yen a month ago, it is probably 50 million or even 60 million now, right?

As a senior clerk who has worked for more than five years, Risa Kanno's monthly salary is about 400,000 yen.

In addition, she spends about twenty hours a week working part-time at convenience stores or restaurants, so she can earn about 500,000 yen a month.

Such a salary is not low anywhere, but it is still a drop in the bucket compared to the debt Yuhki Kanno owes.

That's 60 million yen, even if she doesn't eat or drink, she would have to pay it off for a full ten years.

If you add the ridiculously high interest, she will never be able to pay off this debt on her own in her lifetime.

So she actually knows very well what the future holds for her and her daughter if she continues to maintain a relationship with Yuhki Kanno.

It's just that her heart is unwilling to accept it, and she even wants to escape this reality.

Therefore, facing Makoto Asano's heart-wrenching words, she subconsciously wanted to argue a few words: "But Asano-kun, Yuhki used to be——!"

Obviously, she still has expectations for Yuhki Kanno, thinking that he can turn over a new leaf and work hard with her to pay off the debt.

But what Makoto Asano wants to do now is to shatter her unrealistic fantasies and then tie her firmly to his side through debt and her daughter.

Author's note: Sorry for the late update, three chapters were killed again yesterday, and I have been revising until now.

There are two more updates later.

Chapter 122 Conditions (2/2)

The reason why Risa Kanno still has expectations for Yuhki Kanno is actually because Yuhki Kanno had a past experience of turning over a new leaf.

Before marrying Risa Kanno's sister, he was simply the epitome of a hoodlum: idle all day long, doing nothing, and often frequenting various bars and nightclubs with a group of cronies.

Therefore, Risa Kanno strongly opposed her sister marrying such a person.

If her sister hadn't guaranteed that Yuhki Kanno would change and had very seriously stated that she would only marry this one person in her life, Risa Kanno would never have agreed to this marriage.

However, after the marriage, Yuhki Kanno did indeed settle down.

Not only did he stop going out and fooling around, but he also started his own business from scratch, and even slowly developed his business through his own efforts.

At its peak, his annual income reached nearly 10 million yen, which was considered a solid middle class.

And at that time, he was not even thirty years old.

Although soon after, his wife passed away due to the birth of Yuna Kanno.

He also had no intention to take care of other things because of this, which led to the collapse of his newly developed business because it lacked his pillar.

After the hard-earned business collapsed, he did not continue to work hard, but seemed to have lost interest in everything and directly chose to give up, finding a relaxed job with a low salary and loafing around all day.

But this does not prevent Risa Kanno from still holding a glimmer of fantasy about him.

Makoto Asano naturally knew about Yuhki Kanno's experience. He had personally witnessed the decline of Yuhki Kanno's career in Yuna Kanno's dream, as well as the man's failure to strive for progress due to the death of his wife.

But.

What does this have to do with him?

His original purpose was to separate Risa Kanno from Yuhki Kanno and at the same time change the unequal status relationship between himself and Risa Kanno.

Moreover, he does not believe that a gambling addict can still turn over a new leaf like before after owing so much money.

So, for both emotional and rational reasons, he has to continue to implement his plan.

And what he has to do now is to completely shatter Risa Kanno's unrealistic fantasies.

So before she could finish her words, Makoto Asano directly interrupted: "Kanno-san, I don't know what Yuhki-san was like in the past, I only know that he now owes a large high-interest debt, even owing money to the yakuza."

"And you saw it that day, with Yuhki-san in that state, does he really have a chance to make a comeback? You should know very well that he is now completely addicted to gambling, and no matter how you call him, you can't wake him up, even if he loses everything, he won't wake up."

These extremely serious and realistic words made Risa Kanno's face become increasingly pale.

After recognizing reality, her heart was filled with despair.

Seeing this, Makoto Asano did not push too hard, if Risa Kanno was pushed too hard and couldn't think straight... that would be bad.

So he slightly slowed down his tone and comforted: "Kanno-san, I hope you can understand that I made this suggestion because I care too much about Yuna."

"But I still hope that Kanno-san can carefully consider this matter, after all, it also concerns the future of you and Yuna."

However, the comforting effect of these words was obviously not very good, and Risa Kanno's pale expression hardly changed.

Only when he mentioned "concerning Yuna's future" did Risa Kanno's face slightly regain color, but she didn't say much.

It seems that Kanno-san is also an indecisive person...

Thinking this, Makoto Asano couldn't help but sigh slightly in his heart.

But he won't change his opinion of Risa Kanno or anything because of this.

After all, no one is perfect, and it's normal to have some minor flaws in personality.

Moreover, isn't indecisiveness, to put it nicely, careful consideration?

Thinking of this, Makoto Asano briefly considered his words and continued to comfort: "Kanno-san, please don't show such an expression, if there really is such a day, I will help you... or rather, I will help Yuna pay off the debt."

"Of course, I can't spend such a large sum of money for nothing, not even for Yuna. I won't use this opportunity to say anything without conditions to win Kanno-san's favor, that's too hypocritical, and even if I said that, Kanno-san, you probably wouldn't believe it, right?"

"So, although I can indeed help you pay off the debt at the last moment, I also have a few conditions."

As Makoto Asano spoke, he took out his phone, opened the bank app, and opened his sub-card with 100 million yen.

On the other side, after hearing Makoto Asano's words and then looking up to see the long string of 0s displayed on his phone.

Risa Kanno couldn't help but froze for a moment, then subconsciously asked: "...What conditions?"

Logically speaking, she shouldn't be asking Makoto Asano such things.

Even if Makoto Asano clearly stated that he would help pay off the debt, she shouldn't want the other party's money.

Even if it were her before tonight, her self-esteem and face would definitely not accept this.

But Makoto Asano's words just now put the facts on her face, making her completely recognize reality.

In addition, this matter also concerns the future of her daughter, so she can't care about so much now.

After all, now there seems to be no other way but to seek Makoto Asano's help, she doesn't want her daughter to be taken to a nightclub to do those... those painful and illegal things.

Seeing Risa Kanno take the bait, Makoto Asano couldn't help but secretly smile in his heart, but on the surface, he still maintained that very serious expression.

He held up his index finger and slowly said: "First of all, I'm helping you pay off the debt is just lending you money, this money needs to be repaid, and after the money is repaid, I hope that this debt can be transferred from Yuhki-san to you, because I don't think Yuhki-san has the ability to repay me."

"Of course, no matter how much he owes, and no matter how much I repay, I will only count half of the debt on you, and I won't urge you to repay the debt. You can just pay me back a little when you remember."

This condition only transfers the debt from the yakuza to Makoto Asano, and also directly reduces it by half, which only has benefits and no disadvantages for Risa Kanno.

As for making her the debtor...

Actually, there is no difference, because now Yuhki Kanno's debt is originally being repaid by her.

So after hearing Makoto Asano's first condition, she did not hesitate at all and directly nodded: "Asano-kun, don't worry, I will definitely repay the money, but not half, but all of it!"

Chapter 123 Soft and Big (Bonus Update 12/14)

Makoto Asano couldn't help but nod in agreement with Risa Kanno's honesty.

Ordinary people would probably jump for joy when they heard the words "only need to repay half" and "no urging, repay when you remember", and might not even repay it in the end.

But she's good, not only wants to repay the money, but also insists on repaying it all.

Yes, if she wasn't this kind of person, then she wouldn't have given up on Yuhki Kanno for so long, and even actively helped him repay the money.

Thinking this, Makoto Asano simultaneously raised his middle finger and index finger, and said his second condition.

"Second, if it really comes to the point where I need to help you repay the debt, then I hope that Kanno-san can divorce Yuhki-san as soon as possible after I repay the debt."

Perhaps feeling that these words were not serious enough, he added a little more weight: "If you are unwilling to accept this condition, then I may give up on Yuna because of this."

"I hope Kanno-san can understand my difficulties and not blame me for this. I am sure that Yuhki-san will definitely continue to gamble after repaying the debt, and then re-owe a lot of debt."