"Why did you lie to me?"
Zhongshan Taka asked, his eyes red, enunciating each word.
"What... what are you talking about?" Zhongshan Runmei frowned, noticing something was off with him, and reached out to pull him, "Let's go inside and talk about whatever it is."
"Don't touch me!" Zhongshan Taka jerked his hand away from his mother and hissed, "Mom, why did you help Hashimoto Youko deceive me? Why? Why!"
The betrayal from Hashimoto Youko was bad enough, but deception from his own mother cut him to the core, beyond his comprehension.
"You... you know everything." Zhongshan Runmei's face changed color suddenly, not yet aware of the full extent of the blow her son had just suffered, believing he found out about the ploy using Hashimoto Youko to seduce Aoyama Xiu Xin.
