Chapter 12: About the Supermarket Manager

About the Supermarket Manager

The detective’s report also included details about the manager. Apparently, he used to work at the same company as my wife. It was that import goods company run by the cheerful president. It said that even back then, he had feelings for my wife. According to the people around them, he invited her to meals and dates many times.

On the other hand, there were testimonies that my wife had not seemed very enthusiastic about him, so it did not seem like they had been involved since that time.

At some point, he quit the company, and a few years later he had become the manager of the supermarket near our home. Is he the father of my daughter. I would not know unless I took a DNA test. I looked into it and learned it could be done for around twenty to thirty thousand yen, but I realized that even if I learned the truth, it would not benefit me in any way. My daughter is not connected to me by blood.

It seems he and my wife became close again in the last six months or so, and it was only in the last few months that they began going to hotels.

I had also asked the detective to investigate the manager further. At his current workplace, he is apparently like a king of the hill. He has the authority to change the wages of part-time workers and even the authority to promote someone to full-time. Because of that, neither the employees nor the part-timers can speak out against him, and he does whatever he wants.

What concerned me most was that he would tell other part-time workers things like “I have something to talk about” and meet them outside working hours. With some of them, those meetings developed into physical relationships, and it turned out that he was currently involved with three women at the same time, including my wife. He knows from their resumes that they have husbands, so it is clearly adultery. The manager himself is also married, with one child. And his wife is currently pregnant. He was doing whatever he pleased.

Does my wife know about all of this. Is she planning to eventually give up on the cheese gyudon salaryman and switch to the supermarket manager. At his home, the manager is living comfortably, while also maintaining physical relationships with two other women besides his wife.

And when he and my wife went to the hotel, he called sex “playing around.” Even if he said that behind her back, it would still be terrible, but to say it to her face is unbelievable.

I had moments when I wanted revenge. I thought about destroying everything and reducing it all to ashes. I have always been in technical work, so I am not knowledgeable about legal matters. But at the very least, I have the habits of someone who writes. When I write, I research many things, so my knowledge has piled up.

If this were a novel, then at some point the story would shift toward revenge. But in my case, everything ended the moment my precious wife was taken. And the daughter I loved so much is not even connected to me by blood. The foundation of my happiness was collapsing.

No, maybe that foundation never even existed.

It was all an illusion.

Something I merely assumed to be true.

Maybe I never made sure of anything. Maybe I became complacent at some point. Maybe I just took everything for granted.

There is nothing I can do now.

The only thing left is to run away and abandon everything.

Killing myself would be pathetic. If I were to die, I would want to do it quietly where no one would ever find me.

Being cheated on, being tricked into raising another man’s child, and then dying because of it would be the ultimate loser’s end. I cannot let my wife see that. I cannot let the manager see it. I cannot let my daughter see it. I cannot bear to think what my parents would think.

If that is the case, then I want to throw everything away and live as someone completely different in a place where no one knows me.

I want to change my face, my name, everything.

I do not need my past. I do not need relationships. I do not care what happens to anyone after I run.

I will throw everything away and become a new version of myself.