Crime

"Give it back to me!" Miku stood on tiptoe and reached for the envelope Kaito was holding. It was accidentally dropped when she was taking something out of her schoolbag last night, and she didn't want her brother to pick it up this morning.

"So urgent?" Kaito smiled and held up the envelope, "Why, which little boy wrote it to you?"

"No, no, give it to me quickly!" Seeing the insurmountable gap in height, Miku simply made up his mind and pushed Kaito down on the sofa with all his strength, then pressed onto him and reached out to reach for the envelope in his hand.

"Hey! Good, good, stop making trouble, I'll give it to you." Kaito, who was crushed to the waist, was in pain, and it took a while to sit up with some difficulty while supporting the backrest.

Miku held the envelope, looked at his brother and himself in doubt: "Am I really that heavy?"

Kaito covered his face and shook his hands: "...It's not your business."

Thanks to some unrestrained person, Kaito did not have a good rest last night. He just got home in the morning and received a call from his assistant asking him to go back to the company. It seems to be about the news announced by the company at the finale. It's a big problem, but he must go there in person.

Speaking of the Ahamay matter, it was actually passed in the ambiguity of everyone's tacit understanding. After all, it is not a glorious thing for both parties, and there is Yuma over there, so he can rest assured.

Although as a competitor, Kaito still can't see through him to some extent, but he can also see that the other party is really helping him sincerely, which is why he never said a single lie to Yuma.

But before he left, Yuma's last words suddenly rushed into his mind, and then all the images from last night to this morning began to flood in, Kaito blushed for a while, but then shook his head to wake up, Just keep going to the studio.

But fortunately Gakupo is not in the company today, otherwise he doesn't know what expression to use to face each other in front of everyone. Kaito only heard that Gakupo had gone to other places, and he didn't ask further about where he went.

He didn't know why, but now that things had happened, he actually started to want to escape again, to escape this indescribable feeling.

Kaito thought he should hate Gakupo, hated him for taking everything away from him, hated him for doing whatever he wanted to him, but after last night, he actually found that his mind had changed slightly.

Was it swayed by just the slightest bit of concern from him?This would be too unbearable.

"So after the admission time... are you listening?" The assistant waved his hand in front of Kaito's eyes.

"Huh? Well, I'm listening," Kaito came back to his senses, "What happened after entering?"

"Forget it, I don't think you're in a very good condition now." The assistant put a thick stack of documents on the table and straightened them, "I'm going to make another copy of these, you can take a look first talk later."

"Sorry, excuse me." Suddenly someone knocked on the door and walked in, then turned to Kaito, "Someone wants to see you."

"Meet me?" Kaito turned around, "Who is it?"

"Ms. Sapphire."

Hearing that Kaito looked at the assistant with some confusion, and the assistant thought for a while before saying, "Is it the one who just invested in our company not long ago?"

Seeing the respondent nodded, Kaito asked, "The company's new shareholder? Then why do you want to see me?"

"Sapphire's subordinates control a fairly strong consortium. She took over after her husband passed away due to illness last year. Although she is a woman, her ability in business management is amazing, so the company attaches great importance to her shareholding. Yes," the assistant said, "I'm also quite surprised why she wanted to see you, I didn't even dare to think it was really that lady just now."

"Forget it, just go and have a look," Kaito got up and walked over, "Don't make people wait too long."

"It's actually an honor for our company to talk about Sapphire's shareholding. You may not pay much attention to the economy, but during the time when Sapphire was abroad, the consortium under her can be said to be in the business world," the assistant told Walking beside Kaito, she said, "She doesn't seem to be very willing to appear in the commercial media, which makes people feel a little mysterious, but people who have met Sapphire say that she is a great beauty."

Kaito didn't respond, he noticed that the person in charge of the reception did not lead him directly to take the elevator, but he had to go down the stairs for the five-story building.After following him for a while, Kaito finally spoke: "The Sapphire lady you mentioned, have I ever met? Or, has she seen me?"

The person in front paused, then turned around and said, "You'll know when you go."

When he walked to the reception hall on the first floor, Kaito suddenly felt that the atmosphere was not right.The people in charge of the company's reception stood aside and waited with serious expressions, while the lady named Sapphire was sitting on the sofa in the main seat with her back to him.

Wearing a long black chiffon dress, with long sapphire blue hair hanging down to her waist, she must be a very elegant and beautiful woman even just by looking at her back.

The person who had just come to meet him walked up to Sapphire and said something, so she turned around.

Because of the well-maintained skin, even in her middle age, it is difficult to see a trace of time on her face, her appearance is as beautiful as if it has been carefully crafted, and her snow-white skin is set off by a pair of extremely blue eyes.

At that moment, almost everyone held their breath, and the hall full of people suddenly fell into dead silence.

Not because of anything else.They involuntarily turned their heads to look at Kaito——

His face was carved out of the same mold as Sapphire's.

The title that has not been said for many years, now pierces the heart like a sharp cold knife.He took a shallow and quick breath, and all his words were choked up in an instant.

All of this was both expected and unexpected.

The foreman of the reception department waved knowingly to let all the people standing beside him leave, leaving only the two of them in the huge reception hall.

Kaito turned his head to look to the side, then lowered his head again, but never said anything.

Sapphire looked at him, and finally said after a long time: "I didn't expect to see you again."

Yes, who would have thought that the mother who abandoned him many years ago married a wealthy businessman abroad after divorce, and now she would meet him again in this way.

Who can think of it?

"Sapphire," he whispered this cold, unfamiliar word, "it really suits your name."

It's a pity that it's not just a name that has been changed over the years.

Hearing his respectful remarks to himself, Sapphire suddenly showed a trace of sadness: "Or, you can't forgive me anymore?"

Kaito lowered his eyes and smiled wryly: "Without even resentment, how can there be forgiveness?"

No resentment, no forgiveness, just because there is no emotion, these are the most decisive words.

Sapphire's shoulders trembled slightly, and it could be seen that she was trying not to cry in front of him.Although a little moved, Kaito still made up his mind to stand there without moving, he knew what he was doing.

Even if you could give me a little more care and love back then, even if you could fulfill a little bit of mother's responsibility back then.

Kaito took a deep breath, wanting to get out of here before his emotions overwhelmed his reason, but he was stopped when he turned around——

"I don't know if you will still be willing to see me in the future... just take it as a pity for a mother..." Her voice trembled, "Can I leave my number for you? How much... I can help you if something happens You'll be fine..."

The mother was actually begging for the child's forgiveness, and at that moment Kaito felt that he was the one who committed the crime.He stood for a while, and finally handed her the phone.

Seems to be too emotional, Sapphire keyed in the number over and over again, and deleted it over and over again due to mistakes. Kaito watched quietly, without saying a word.

"Excuse me, ma'am." Kaito took back the phone, calmly—as if treating a stranger—and nodded slightly to Sapphire, "I will inform them to send you back."

"Do you really not regret it at all?" Sapphire looked at his back, "How much have you suffered for that little girl all these years?"

Kaito's footsteps of leaving finally stopped.

"I really didn't expect you to come here." Gakupo looked up at the familiar figure on the platform.

At that time, Gakupo was really surprised when he saw Kaito saying that he was waiting for his message at the station, although those few simple words were immediately interrupted by a call from the company.

In fact, Kaito didn't expect that he would come here, but after seeing Sapphire today, he suddenly realized that there is nothing in this world that can really be avoided. To escape means to care; to care, you have to face it.

Kaito buried half of his face in the scarf, but his cheeks were still red from the cold, and he didn't look up at him until Gakupo walked in front of him.

"You came here by yourself?" Gakupo looked at the crowd flowing towards the exit, "Forget it, let's talk while walking."

"You didn't come to the company today..." Kaito moved his lips that were numb from the cold, and said.

"Why are your hands so cold?"

"Stop pretending, you already know." Kaito buried his face in the scarf again, his voice sounding muffled.

Gakupo exhaled, watched the white water vapor gradually dissipate in the air, and then asked, "Sapphire?"

Seeing Kaito's noncommittal expression, Gakupo wanted to say something more, but in the end he didn't say anything because of something.

"I know what you want to ask," Kaito said, "it was her last sentence."

With no response, Kaito stopped and stood in front of him, pulled off the scarf to expose his entire face, then looked up at Gakupo—

"Did you find out?" he said, "Miku and I don't look alike at all."

He looked at him with soft light in his blue eyes.