Chapter 277: Imprisonment, Incident, and Action
"Will I, too?"
Tetsuichiro Esaki smiled without any concern.
"Maybe. If I were younger, I could do something like this."
"But now that I'm older, I don't value these things anymore."
Tetsuichiro Ezaki sighed: "Are you still not as good as the young people?"
"grandfather."
Hearing him say this, Naoto Ezaki, who had mistakenly thought that his grandfather was ready to give up resistance, suddenly brightened up.
However, the other party's next sentence made him freeze in place.
"But, whatever happens."
Tetsuichiro Ezaki picked up the teacup and took a sip. When he put it down, his eyes suddenly became extremely sharp.
"Capturing all my uncles is too cruel. If you are allowed to do whatever you want here, the Ezaki family will fall apart now without waiting for the future to be controlled by outsiders."
"I won't agree to let you attend the Chamber of Commerce meeting and the councilor election as a representative of the Ezaki family, so just give up on this idea." He said coldly.
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Naoto Ezaki's expression suddenly turned gloomy.
He didn't say anything else, but took several deep breaths before calming down the emotions surging in his heart.
"Grandfather, you think too highly of these useless relatives."
Naoto Ezaki almost uttered these words through gritted teeth.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Why did your eldest son, my father, and your second son, Suguha's father leave? Don't you know it, grandfather?"
"Just because your biological children are fewer and your siblings' offspring are more, isn't it a bit too much to favor one over the other? You have to know that they are your biological sons."
"You wouldn't understand." Ezaki Tetsuichiro shook his head and said slowly, "I didn't realize this at the time, so this regret happened."
"Now that I realize this, I will no longer agree with your actions."
Tetsuichiro Esaki paused, then raised his voice.
"I have done the same multiple-choice questions countless times in my life. The questions and answers are exactly the same, but I always choose the wrong answer."
"Later, I finally understood that it was not because of the answer I chose, nor because of my own misjudgment, but because the question itself was wrong."
"Naoto, you need to calm down and think about this."
Tetsuichiro Esaki came over, patted him on the shoulder and added: "At least don't make the same mistake as me."
Naoto Ezaki stood up from the ground with a cold face. Looking at the short and strong old man standing in front of him, he shook his head with some disappointment.
"Sorry Grandfather, I'm not letting you out of here."
As soon as the words fell, a large number of bodyguards in black suits rushed in from outside the tea room. After entering the tea room, they quickly stood in a row against the wall of the room, surrounding the entire tea room tightly.
It was obvious that Naoto Esaki was also well prepared and was able to ensure that his grandfather could stay peacefully in the old house for a week.
As for why he brought so many people, there was of course a reason.
Naoto Ezaki couldn't beat his grandfather, so in order to avoid being beaten up by the other party with a copper-headed leather belt, he had to bring more people with him.
"Grandfather, just stay here and relax this week."
After seeing that the people he arranged had finally come in, Naoto Ezaki also showed a confident expression.
"Once the Chamber of Commerce and the election are over, I will remove these people as soon as possible."
He said sincerely, "And those relatives who were arrested will all come back safe and sound."
return?
Not coming back at all.
Would they come back and continue to hinder me? Would they not support me when I needed them most, and then wait until next week when everything was settled, and then let them come back to enjoy the fruits of victory?
Even if Naoto Esaki could agree, the other members of the party he had joined would not agree to such a thing happening.
So he is just telling lies here with open eyes.
Obviously, Tetsuichiro Esaki also understood this.
After a moment's silence, he suddenly laughed.
The old man's laughter was heroic, which was inconsistent with his old appearance. When he laughed, it seemed as if the whole house was shaking. Such a cheerful look made Naoto Ezaki suddenly a little confused.
What is grandpa laughing at? Why is he laughing so happily?
Naoto Ezaki was a little stunned, until some sawdust fell on him from the ceiling, and then he looked up belatedly.
Was that an illusion? Wasn't the house shaking due to laughter?!
Naoto Ezaki's face suddenly changed, and his eyes gradually became terrified. The next moment, the ceiling collapsed without any warning.
The pure wooden beam structure shattered in an instant, and a large amount of wood chips flew in the air. A bodyguard who didn't have time to react was implicated and was crushed underneath a large piece of wooden ceiling.
The flying wood blocks also injured several bodyguards, but fortunately the scale of the injury was not serious.
The ceiling fell down as if it was going to destroy the tea table in the center. However, when the dust settled, everyone could see that it was not the ceiling that fell down, but a person.
He broke through the ceiling and jumped down from it.
With an upright figure and an expressionless face, he stuck a bamboo sword on the ground like a walking stick.
"No wonder the old woman asked me to pick a bamboo sword first when she led me upstairs."
He seemed to be talking to himself and said, "So this is where it's going to be used?"
"I thought it was a literature test, but I didn't expect it to be a physical test."
Sawayama Haruno grinned and shouted towards where Ezaki Tetsuichiro was, "Old man, the old woman just told me that as long as I let you leave here, Suguha will be mine from now on, right?"
He eavesdropped on the entire process upstairs, and with the old woman's occasional supplementary explanations, he understood the current situation.
To be honest, Naoto Ezaki's ruthlessness was far beyond his imagination. He didn't expect that so many relatives would be killed so easily.
It was precisely because of this ruthlessness that he hesitated. After all, no one could guarantee that Naoto Ezaki would always win. If he lost, the counterattack from other forces would only become more serious. At that time, Suguha Ezaki, who was another candidate to inherit the family head, would definitely be implicated.
For Haruno Sawayama, his brother-in-law was just too extreme.
I believe my grandfather also understands this truth, which is why he asked me to help him with the multiple-choice questions last time.
Just before he went upstairs, he emphasized this matter again.
To be honest, it doesn't matter whether to make a choice or not at this point. Sawayama Haruno only needs to take the old man to the outside of the mansion and then he can go and pick up Ezaki Suguha.
No matter what happened to the Ezaki family afterwards, it had nothing to do with him and Ezaki Suguha.
That's why Sawayama Haruno chose to take action without hesitation.
"I asked you to help me make a choice, not to tear down my house."
In response to Sawayama Haruno's question, Ezaki Tetsuichiro said unhappily, "You have to pay for it. This old house has a history of nearly a hundred years."
"There's nothing I can do. There are more people outside, and your stairs are at the very end of the house. It takes a long time to walk there." Zeshan Haruno shrugged and said nonchalantly, "I'm worried that if I come down a little later, you'll be in danger, so it's faster to jump down directly from the building."
"Just think of it as giving your own granddaughter a dowry in advance," he added.
"Zeshan!"
While the two were talking, Naoto Ezaki suddenly started yelling.
He seemed to realize it late, trembling all over, and asked with a look of disbelief: "What are you doing here?"
The plan went far beyond his imagination.
He knew about the test his grandfather was going to give to Sawayama Haruno, but he never expected that this test would be saved for the time when he was in trouble.
What was even more unexpected was that Sawayama Haruno actually had such incredible strength that he could break the ceiling and jump down from the second floor?
Is that human being?
There were seven or eight other surviving bodyguards who had the same idea as Naoto Ezaki. They were looking with lingering fear at Sawayama Haruno, who was standing in the middle of the venue, sticking his bamboo sword on the ground like a crutch.
Faced with such an inhuman opponent, they were confused from the bottom of their hearts.
"I'm sorry, brother-in-law."
Hearing Naoto Ezaki's question, Sawayama Haruno gave a somewhat apologetic smile.
"I just want to take Suguha away. Although your method may allow her to be free, it is too extreme and too dangerous."
Zeshan Haruno said seriously: "We have offended so many people. If something unexpected happens in the future, we will not be able to bear it. So you should listen to your grandfather and calm down for a while."
"you"
Naoto Ezaki's face turned red as an ugly pig liver. After a moment, he gritted his teeth and said, "Catch him."
After receiving the boss's order, the remaining bodyguards still seemed a little hesitant, but fortunately at this time, the people outside also heard the noise inside and were constantly pouring into the tea room.
After realizing that they had more people on their side, no one knew who took the lead and rushed towards Sawayama Haruno in the center of the venue.
Just like that, everyone rushed forward and reached out to pin Sawayama Haruno down.
The latter just grinned, and a large amount of kendo techniques began to surge into his mind.
"As expected, the reward for improving proficiency can only be triggered when it is actually used."
Sawayama Haruno seemed to sigh, or as if talking to himself, and then faced the bodyguard who was rushing in the front, he did not hesitate to show his upper-level posture.
(End of this chapter)
