“Yes, Teacher Yuriko is also very beautiful today.”
Akitsuki Makoto said truthfully.
In the restroom, Eri Kisaki heard Akitsuki Makoto's words and narrowed her eyes behind her gold-rimmed glasses.
Yuriko?
Compared to Ran Mouri and Sonoko Suzuki.
Akitsuki Makoto's way of calling her seemed a bit too intimate.
Suddenly caught by Eri Kisaki's scrutinizing gaze.
Matsumoto Yuriko felt uncomfortable.
"Ms. Kisaki, it's getting late. Let's go to the wedding ceremony too!"
"Huh, Mom, why are you here at the wedding too!"
Ran Mouri looked at Eri Kisaki, who came out of the restroom with Matsumoto Yuriko, in surprise.
"It was an invitation from the head of the Takasugi family. Our firm once handled a case for him."
Sonoko Suzuki looked curiously at the two women.
She felt that the atmosphere between them was a little strange.
The group left the lounge.
At the wedding venue, the ceremony preparations were still being checked.
And when Takeuchi Hitomi saw her best friend, Matsumoto Yuriko, looking like a completely different person, she was shocked.
Although her makeup had been retouched.
But upon getting closer, she could still faintly see traces of tears.
As if she had been crying earlier.
The worried expression that had been in her eyes for the past few years was gone.
Instead, there was a hint of charm.
Matsumoto Yuriko saw her best friend's strange look and didn't dare to look directly at her, her eyes darting around, looking very unnatural.
After all, she had rekindled a long-lost dream after seeing Akitsuki Makoto.
However, the occasion was not appropriate.
When Takeuchi Hitomi saw Akitsuki Makoto, she understood.
Her best friend of many years.
She knew quite a bit about Matsumoto Yuriko.
She had even seen the photos of Akitsuki Makoto that Yuriko showed her.
Although there were some differences, Takeuchi Hitomi recognized him instantly.
Pulling Matsumoto Yuriko aside, Takeuchi Hitomi said loudly, "Yuriko, it's time to go on stage!"
Then she leaned towards her best friend's ear and whispered playfully.
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder, let me guess, is it your sweetheart who has come back? Could it be that Yuriko, who has been in love for many years, can't escape anymore and is welcoming him with open arms?"
Sure enough, her best friend had figured it out.
Matsumoto Yuriko was extremely embarrassed.
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The wedding was in progress.
Takasugi Toshihiko glanced discreetly at a burly middle-aged man in the crowd.
He had originally planned to poison Matsumoto Yuriko.
To let Matsumoto Kiyoshi see his relative's death with his own eyes.
But because of Akitsuki Makoto.
He hadn't been able to find Matsumoto Yuriko.
He could only change his plan at the last minute.
He would directly poison Matsumoto Kiyoshi.
To make Matsumoto Yuriko experience the same loss as him back then.
To lose a loved one.
Since Takasugi Toshihiko wasn't familiar with Matsumoto Yuriko.
He had originally asked the Takasugi family's butler to buy a colorless and odorless poison.
Just now, Takasugi Toshihiko had the waiter who was serving the drinks put the poison in Matsumoto Kiyoshi's wine.
He paid a hefty price to bribe the waiter.
Then he would simply confess to the crime.
In the face of a large sum of money and the coercion of the heir of a major conglomerate.
The waiter naturally had no room for refusal.
Sure enough, as Takasugi Toshihiko had expected.
A scream came from Matsumoto Kiyoshi at the wedding.
When everyone's attention was drawn to the unexpected incident.
A manic smile appeared on Takasugi Toshihiko's face.
Akitsuki Makoto was also speechless.
Unexpectedly, his future wife, Teacher Yuriko, was safe under his protection.
But this cheap father-in-law was unlucky.
While everyone was frantically calling an ambulance and the police.
One of the waiters at the wedding scene.
Actually stepped forward and confessed.
He told the fabricated reason for his crime.
Which shocked everyone.
It was actually a murder case.
After comforting Matsumoto Yuriko, who was tearful.
Akitsuki Makoto secretly used his "Palm Immortal Technique" on Matsumoto Kiyoshi.
He restored some of his injuries, ensuring he was out of danger.
Then he stopped and did not continue.
After all, it would be ridiculous if Matsumoto Kiyoshi got up unscathed later.
Akitsuki Makoto didn't have any thoughts about deduction.
He didn't need clues.
It was most likely this Takasugi Toshihiko.
He called over Takasugi Fumio, the head of the Takasugi family.
He told him that the real culprit was his adopted son, Takasugi Toshihiko.
He told Takasugi Fumio to investigate the evidence of his buying poison.
As well as the waiter who confessed.
Since he wanted to be this demon's servant, he naturally had to complete these trivial tasks well.
Upon hearing that the real culprit was his adopted son.
Takasugi Fumio didn't show much emotional fluctuation.
It was just an adopted son.
How could he compare to the Demon Lord who granted him longevity!
As long as he continued to trade with the Demon Lord in the future.
The Takasugi conglomerate wouldn't lack heirs.
Through friendly negotiations with the waiter and his family.
The waiter, who was pale with fear, honestly confessed to the fact that Takasugi Toshihiko had instructed him to poison him.
After Megure Thirteen from the Metropolitan Police Department arrived.
He discovered that his superior, Matsumoto Kiyoshi, was the one who had been poisoned.
He was extremely angry.
As a result, the Takasugi family's butler and the waiter both stepped forward.
They recounted everything, how Takasugi Toshihiko planned the poisoning and instructed them to do it.
This time, not only was Takasugi Toshihiko, who had been smug, dumbfounded.
Even the guests present were stunned.
Was the head of the Takasugi family so ruthless?
Destroying his own family? Even though he was adopted, he was still the only heir to the Takasugi conglomerate.
Takasugi Toshihiko, who was in a fit of rage, talked about what happened back then.
He also revealed that he had originally intended to poison Matsumoto Yuriko, and if his original plan had gone through, it wouldn't have been discovered at all!
Which made Matsumoto Yuriko both angry and helpless.
Since she was young, she knew that her father was a complete workaholic.
Even the injury on his left eye was left behind when he fought with a criminal during a case.
Matsumoto Yuriko also knew about that incident back then.
When the criminal was driving away, he hit Takasugi Toshihiko's mother.
The criminal got out of the car and ran away after the accident. Matsumoto Kiyoshi didn't care about Takasugi Toshihiko, who was clinging to him, and continued to chase after the criminal.
After catching the criminal, he learned that there was another civilian under the criminal's car at the time of the accident.
When Matsumoto Kiyoshi went to investigate, Takasugi Toshihiko had already left home and was later adopted by the Takasugi family.
"Makoto, thank you! You found the real culprit." Matsumoto Yuriko had seen Akitsuki Makoto talking to the head of the Takasugi family earlier.
It was obviously because of Akitsuki Makoto.
That the head of the Takasugi family had made such a ruthless decision to destroy his own family.
"Teacher Yuriko, just verbal thanks? I've arranged for the best doctor at Mita Comprehensive Hospital for your father, and I've also arranged for a few caregivers."
Matsumoto Yuriko rolled her eyes at Akitsuki Makoto. She had just received a message from the hospital.
Her father, Matsumoto Kiyoshi, was in good condition and only needed to rest in the hospital for five or six days before he could be discharged.
She whispered in his ear, "Then tomorrow, I still need to comfort Hitomi. Since you want to see me in a wedding dress, Hitomi was there when she bought her wedding dress. And I also tried on a dress I really liked at the bridal shop, we'll go buy it tomorrow..."
Takeuchi Hitomi was the saddest one today. The groom actually committed murder at their wedding.
And the original plan was to poison her best friend, Matsumoto Yuriko.
Matsumoto Yuriko was also very grateful to Akitsuki Makoto for coming to see her today.
He saved her from a disaster.
Thinking about Eri Kisaki, she sighed in her heart.
What else could she do? She couldn't live without Akitsuki Makoto anymore.