Madam, believe me, how can I be a minotaur?

Meanwhile, after hearing her daughter's words, Risa Shinno contemplated with a conflicted expression for a while.

Then she nodded, as if making up her mind, and said in a somewhat tragic tone, "Then you guys come in and sit for a while, I'll tidy up a bit, and then we'll go... go out for dinner tonight."

As an elder, the first meeting with her daughter's boyfriend, and since he hasn't eaten yet, treating him to a meal and taking the opportunity to learn about him at the dinner table is naturally very important.

But she can't cook, so she can only eat out.

To be honest, she's a little stingy.

After all, if she's going to treat someone to dinner, especially her daughter's boyfriend, she naturally can't appear too shabby.

But there's not much money left at home, and if she treats Asano-kun to dinner at this time, then this month's debts...

Thinking of this, Risa Shinno immediately shook her head, throwing the thought out of her mind.

Risa Shinno, oh Risa Shinno, how can you have such thoughts? This is a major issue concerning your daughter's happiness!

Compared to your daughter's love life, what does a meal matter?

If you appear too shabby and cause your daughter to be looked down upon or even break up with her boyfriend, you'll definitely regret it for the rest of your life.

Young people these days are like this, as soon as they know their partner has no money or even owes debts, they'll immediately abandon them!

Risa Shinno, you must not let your daughter experience such a tragedy!

Miss Risa Shinno, who has never been in love, is now relying on the romance views shaped by the plots of those old, third-rate romance comics she read when she was young, and has come to this very unrealistic conclusion on her own.

Chapter 86: Kana Ikeda (2/3) (Bonus Update 3/14)

After secretly making up her mind, Risa Shinno invited the two into the living room, then walked into the bedroom to tidy up.

She had to go get her hidden private money, otherwise the money she had left on her might not be enough to pay for tonight's dinner.

Meanwhile, after thinking for a while, Makoto Asano still chose to change into indoor shoes and enter the living room.

In fact, his original plan was to say goodbye directly after greeting her.

But he was a little worried that after he left, Yuna Shinno might accidentally reveal something under her mother's questioning, so he decided to stay and observe for a while.

Just then, Risa Shinno suggested going out to dinner, so Makoto Asano decided to leave after dinner.

Because he was going to make up a lie at the dinner table to help Yuna Shinno deceive Risa Shinno.

He was doing this for his own sake, and besides, it was just the cost of a meal, it's not like he couldn't afford it.

So after receiving Risa Shinno's invitation, he hesitated for a moment, then directly changed his shoes and walked into the living room, and began to look around.

The house was generally similar to the one he saw in Yuna Shinno's dream.

However, compared to that time, the house seemed to have fewer things, such as the TV, the sofa, and many other things.

They must have been smashed or sold by Little Yuna's father...

Thinking this, Makoto Asano stopped observing and sat down on the chair that Risa Shinno had been sitting on, then turned to look at Yuna Shinno, who was sitting on another chair to the side.

At this moment, she was looking down nervously, not daring to look up at Makoto Asano.

It was as if the person who was brought home by their partner today and ran into their mother wasn't Makoto Asano, but her.

Seeing her restrained appearance, Makoto Asano shrugged and gave up the idea of ​​chatting.

After all, he was at Yuna Shinno's house now, so he couldn't be too presumptuous.

He sat there for a while, feeling a little bored, he turned his head and looked around, then casually picked up a magazine placed on the side and briefly glanced at the cover.

Obviously, this was a women's fashion magazine, because there were many photos of women's clothing on the cover.

It should be Miss Risa's book... The clothes are pretty, the models are very good, all tall with long legs, and their faces are good-looking too.

Makoto Asano casually flipped through the magazine, while mentally commenting on the models.

But before he could flip through a few pages, his gaze suddenly froze, and then he slowly flipped the magazine forward a page.

On this page of the magazine was a photo of a model wearing a mask, with a tall and well-proportioned figure, long and straight legs, and gray hair tied into a high ponytail that hung down to her waist.

Her upper body was a white sweatshirt jacket, and her lower body was light blue jeans and white sneakers.

It was clearly a girl-next-door outfit, but the eyes she revealed outside the mask, looking directly at the camera, faintly revealed a trace of aloofness.

And the reason he suddenly froze was because he actually knew this person.

Or rather, he had seen these eyes somewhere, and he had a deep impression of them.

The reason he flipped back was precisely because the model was wearing a mask, only revealing a pair of eyes on her entire face, so he immediately noticed these very special and extremely familiar eyes.

It was just that he had been looking at it casually just now, and this model was also dressed very conservatively in the photo, so he thought it was just an unfamiliar model and accidentally flipped a page too far.

After carefully reading the photo, Makoto Asano looked at the lower right corner of this page of the magazine.

There, a few lines of small print briefly wrote some information about this model.

Stage name: Kana Ikeda

Age: 20 years old

Height: 172CM

Weight: 55KG

Introduction: Kana Ikeda, born in Shinjuku, Tokyo, belongs to Kuroda Office.

Important personal experiences:

1. Discovered by a scout from Kuroda Office in the second year of junior high school, became a model under the agency, part-time idol, singer, actor.

2. Last year, she participated in the model selection contest held by this fashion magazine and won the championship, becoming the exclusive model for this magazine.

3. ...

...

After quickly reading this information, Makoto Asano turned his head and took out his mobile phone, and searched for the stage name "Kana Ikeda" on it.

Soon, the search engine showed several results.

After flipping through it a few times, Makoto Asano was surprised to find that this Kana Ikeda even had a dedicated personal encyclopedia page, but the popularity and traffic were not very high.

With a hint of curiosity, he clicked into the webpage and began to check it carefully.

Compared to the brief introduction in the magazine, the information on the personal encyclopedia was obviously more detailed.

It not only included Kana Ikeda's personal information, life history, and award-winning experience, but also listed several works she had participated in the production of.

Speaking of works, they were actually just two pop songs with not very high popularity and an unknown web drama.

Moreover, the songs and TV series were all produced and released a year ago, and there has been no movement at all since then.

In addition, her personal encyclopedia page also contained several sets of her photo albums.

Makoto Asano carefully admired it for a while, and found that she was not the kind of model who took the side or erotic route, but a serious fashion clothing model.

Because not only was she dressed very conservatively in the photos, but she was also wearing a mask, only revealing half of her face.

But Makoto Asano still recognized through those highly recognizable eyes that this model named Kana Ikeda was indeed the person he knew.

In general, Kana Ikeda, or rather Yuka Konno, is actually a model with some popularity, but not very high popularity.

And compared to her idol, singer, and actress identities, which are like freebies, her model identity is obviously more valuable.

Those two songs and that web drama were obviously just attempts by her agency, Kuroda Office, to broaden her acting career after she won the championship in that model selection contest last year.

But obviously, these attempts all flopped.

And Kuroda Office must have given up on this idea very simply after the flop, and let Yuka Konno continue to honestly walk her model path, otherwise she would not have been silent for a year after releasing the song and acting in the TV series.

Although she has been doing well on the path of a model, and has participated in many competitions and won many awards.

But because the model circle itself is very small, she is really not very popular.

Just when Makoto Asano finished reading Yuka Konno's personal information, flipped up a few times to the personal works column, and was about to click on the link to listen to how the two songs were.

He suddenly heard the sound of a door lock turning from the door.

And Yuna Shinno, who was sitting in the chair next to him, naturally also heard the sound of the door opening.

However, unlike Makoto Asano, who was full of curiosity, Yuna Shinno's face showed a very obvious expression of fear and hatred.

And this expression was even more serious than the expression she showed after Makoto Asano forced her to do all kinds of things she didn't like.

Seeing her like this, even without thinking, Makoto Asano immediately realized who was standing outside the door at this moment.

Chapter 87: "God of Gamblers" Hiroki Shinno

Hiroki Shinno was walking on the way home, having just lost all the money on him and being kicked out of the casino, he couldn't help but feel a little irritable in his heart at this moment.

It has been more than five months since he was brought into the casino by his colleagues, lost all his and his family's savings, and owed the high-interest loan issued by that underworld boss.

Five months is long enough to change many things.

For example, turning a happy middle-aged man with a career and a family into an unemployed person with a debt of nearly 60 million yen.

In fact, he didn't owe that much at the beginning, only 10 million yen.

But as time went by, the high interest rate plus the fact that he borrowed several more times later, the money he owed became more and more.

If you ask Hiroki Shinno if he regrets it, the answer is definitely yes.

After all, he lost his job, lost so much money, and even owed a debt that he might not be able to repay in his lifetime, how could anyone not regret it?

But if you ask him if he wants to continue gambling, then his answer is also definitely yes.

From the moment he won the first sum of money in the casino, he has become completely addicted to gambling.

Things that are linked to money are always easy to become addictive, especially when large amounts of yen enter your pocket like a gust of wind.

And when Hiroki Shinno entered the casino for the first time in his life, he won the first sum of money with the 100,000 yen capital he brought.

He remembers that sum of money very clearly, it was exactly 3.52 million yen.