Kondo and His New Lawyer
Kondo’s PoV
After a thorough interrogation, I’m back in jail.
The assault, the bullying, the destruction of school equipment, the posting of lies on SNS, the obstruction of justice, the …
All of them are being thoroughly interrogated. They also asked me in detail if I had committed any other crimes. It took them a long time to find out, and I was kept in jail.
How did this happen? I got the runaround from my ex-lawyer. Apparently, since he has a contract with my father’s company, he has no responsibility to me, his son. He’s too heartless. When things were going well, he always came to see us, but when things went wrong, he quickly ran away.
I have heard that my father is also going through a lot of trouble, including being expelled from the Party. The lawyer’s last words were repeated over and over in my mind.
“Even if you get out of here, is there any place you can go back to?”
The words that came out of his mouth in a whisper made me realize that I was in a hopeless situation. And it seems that my father doesn’t have a new lawyer for me.
Have I been abandoned? Will I die here alone? All my life I’ve been pampered by women and adults, but now all I can do is wait for my self-esteem to be destroyed while I… don’t see anyone and get severely pissed off by the police.
No, don’t give up. I have soccer. I have the talent for soccer, I can still do something.
As I desperately clung to such hope, I was called by a guard. Apparently, a lawyer had come to see me.
Feeling dizzy, I went to meet the lawyer.
A shaky old man was waiting for me in the visiting room.
“Hello, my name is Hiramatsu. Your mother has asked me to defend you. I look forward to working with you…”
To all appearances, he looks unmotivated.
Why mother and not father? Did something happen to him?
“Kondo-kun, your mother was worried about you. So you’d better pull yourself together. You might as well admit everything you’ve done wrong. That’s what your mother said. It’ll get you out of here faster and make you look good. You did something wrong, so you have to make it right.”
He said it in a somewhat dismissive way, and my sense of disbelief grew. I wonder if my mother really cares about me. She almost always goes to another man’s house and never comes back. I guess she hired a lawyer for me just for the sake of public opinion.
She doesn’t love me.
“Oh no, it’s never my fault. What’s wrong with my father?”
The old lawyer looked at me lazily and sighed.
“Haa! He was arrested because of you. The audio of him threatening the school and the victim’s family over the bullying and violence issue was leaked. To make matters worse, the party he belonged to abandoned him and even exposed his alleged slush fund at the apology press conference. He was arrested by the police. I guess there’s nothing he can do now.”
“My father was arrested? No way. Because he’s a high-ranking citizen, there’s no way he could be arrested. …”
“Oh, I read in a weekly magazine that he actually said that. You, you’re so naive. Council members don’t have that kind of privilege. This will be hard to defend. Ah, luckily your ex-lawyer.”
The smiling lawyer slaps me mercilessly in the face with reality.
“I will get a recommendation for college, for soccer. …”
“No, you can’t. No high school would give a recommendation to a student who was caught doing something wrong. Instead, they would probably expel you. Since there is nothing you can do to change that, you should just accept it and admit it.”
When I heard these words, I hit on the visitor’s transparent barrier to deny it.
“No, no, no, no, no!!!”
Some panicked guards dragged me away and took me straight to jail.
The unmotivated lawyer laughed at me and made fun of me.