Chapter 153: This revenge is quite abstract

In the bride's changing room, as the heroine of this wedding, Sayuri Matsumoto was currently receiving the final adjustments from the makeup artist.

Next, the bride should be waiting for the wedding to be officially held.

But at this time, the bride's changing room welcomed some people.

The bride, Sayuri Matsumoto, looked at the visitors with surprise and delight on her face.

"Ran, Sonoko, you're here."

It's just that the expressions of her former students were not particularly good, and their brows were tightly locked, which made her a bit confused.

"Why don't your expressions look very good?"

"Makeup artists, please leave for a moment."

Before Ran Mouri and Sonoko Suzuki could adjust their state, Ai Hayasaka had already started helping to clear the room.

The few makeup artists looked at each other and then politely stood up.

"Then Miss Matsumoto, we will go take a break first."

"Uh, hmm."

Sayuri Matsumoto was a bit at a loss, but she still agreed.

After the makeup artists left the room, Sayuri Matsumoto looked at Ran and Sonoko with a blank face.

"Ran, Sonoko, what's wrong with you two?"

Ran Mouri bit her lip and couldn't speak for a while.

Looking at Teacher Matsumoto in her pure white wedding dress today, she really couldn't imagine that today's events would stain that wedding dress blood-red.

It's just that some things had to be said.

She didn't choose to be tactful anymore, but chose a direct approach.

"Teacher Matsumoto, are you... really going to marry that man?"

Sayuri Matsumoto was slightly stunned; at this moment, looking at the anxiety on Ran and Sonoko's faces, she understood what these two children meant.

"So, you investigated."

Just like Dad.

Sayuri Matsumoto was not a fool, nor did she not know her father's job.

Based on her understanding of her father, for the opposite sex she came into contact with, her father had mostly conducted identity investigations.

Therefore, when she saw her father recently, she often heard her father saying the same things as Ran and Sonoko.

"Sure enough, Teacher Matsumoto, you knew all along."

Ran Mouri couldn't endure it anymore.

"Since you knew all along, why did you still choose to marry that man?"

"Wouldn't it be better to choose someone else?"

To this, Sayuri Matsumoto just smiled and shook her head.

"If I hadn't met him, perhaps I could have dated others."

"But after meeting him, just like in the past, my feelings were still telling me: sure enough, I still like him."

"Teacher Matsumoto!"

Sonoko Suzuki looked at Sayuri Matsumoto with an angry face.

"He deliberately approached you, don't you know that?"

"..."

A trace of pain flashed across Sayuri Matsumoto's face; how could she not know about this?

It seems she knows.

Kaguya Shinomiya shook her head slightly, then glanced at the Amamiya-kun beside her.

No wonder Amamiya-kun had been acting like he didn't want to get involved.

Even the bride herself knew everything.

This was not forced by others, but a choice she made actively even though she knew it was dangerous.

The evaluation of Sayuri Matsumoto as a person could be summed up in two words.

Stupid.

Knowing that she was the target of revenge, she should have chosen to stay away.

Instead of accepting the other party's revenge.

Just because of liking him in the past?

That was just an act of self-satisfaction.

This kind of self-satisfaction often hurts more people.

Friends around her and her own father would all be hurt.

Suddenly, Kaguya Shinomiya thought of something, leaned toward Amamiya-kun, and asked in a low voice.

"Amamiya-kun, was that woman hit and killed by this Ms. Matsumoto's father?"

Kaguya Shinomiya's voice was very soft, but the few people nearby could hear it.

"No."

"The one who caused the car accident and hit that woman was the criminal being pursued."

"That criminal caused more than a dozen homicides back then, and the targets were also young women with no ability to resist."

Good heavens.

Kaguya Shinomiya's face had even less expression; when she looked at Sayuri Matsumoto, there was a bit more speechlessness.

The car accident wasn't directly caused by your father, and the one who hit that woman was a criminal; why are you thinking of paying with your life for your father?

Even if your father had indirect responsibility, this responsibility wasn't heavy enough to require a life for a life, right?

Shouldn't the one who deserved to die the most be the criminal who directly caused the car accident?

"Doesn't that mean her father only caused an indirect car accident because he was pursuing a criminal, and then because he didn't notice the object of the car accident, he didn't provide rescue to that woman?"

"That's right."

"Then the crime isn't big enough to require a life for a life, right?"

"Hmm, indeed not to that extent."

"And at the time, if that woman's son had immediately gone to a nearby convenience store to call the police or an ambulance, that woman would have had a high probability of being saved."

"So the woman's cause of death was excessive blood loss, which was caused by the trauma from the car accident."

"In addition, the criminal who caused that woman's car accident is still living his life in prison, serving a life sentence."

Hearing this, Kaguya Shinomiya was even more speechless.

The real culprit who caused the mother's car accident is still living quietly in prison, and as a result, the son of the woman back then didn't take action against the real culprit, but against the daughter of the police officer who indirectly caused the mother's car accident?

Kaguya Shinomiya always felt that the woman's son didn't even have a clear target for his revenge.

Just because he knew Sayuri Matsumoto was the daughter of the police officer from back then, he vented all his anger on the innocent daughter, Sayuri Matsumoto.

As for the target of the revenge, it felt even more abstract.

Clearly, she was just the daughter of the police officer who indirectly caused the car accident; how did it become as if her father was the culprit who directly hit and killed someone's mother?

From the perspective of a bystander, this matter was quite abstract.

"Amamiya-kun, since it was just someone who indirectly caused a car accident, isn't her active rush to death... quite cheap?"

"...That's why I said, don't get involved in the fate decided by others if there's nothing to do."

"The matter is helping from our observation angle, but from their angle, it might be meddling."

So Ren Amamiya hated meddling the most.

It's just that occasionally he couldn't help but be unable to control his desire to meddle.

Kaguya Shinomiya deeply agreed with this.

She now somewhat understood why Amamiya-kun had that attitude.

Just... respecting the fate of individual choices, right?

— Author's Notes —

PS: The new book is on the shelves, asking for data.