"What are you planning to do?" Kazuo asked. "Do you think that you can threaten us just because you know a few important people? I have already investigated the expensive instruments that you claim to own. I know you did not buy them."

"Who knows what kind of shameful things you did to befriend such powerful people? Since you are not above having premarital sex, you have probably done shameful things to get those items worth hundreds of millions." He added.

Akira paused in her tapping on the phone and looked up at Kazuo.

"Let's begin with you, dearest brother." She said. "You are quite the righteous man, always fighting for what is good and right."

Kazuo felt some discomfort, but he did not think too much about it. He did not believe that he would be unable to deal with anything that Akira could say.

"Do you think I am afraid of you?" He asked. "If you have something to say, say it now."

Akira smiled and looked at her phone. "The eldest son of the Yamazaki family is quite reliable. Despite his playfulness in high school, he still managed to get into one of the top universities in the country. He is a success story for all children with low IQ in Mountain Ridge."

Kazuo felt a bit of cold sweat on his back.

"At least, that is what a local newspaper reported after the unexpectedly good results. I wonder how the children who suffered because of Yamazaki Kazuo, the best role model, will feel once they find out about his cheating."

Kazuo stood up. "Shut up! Shut up! I did not cheat."

Akira smiled and tapped on her phone. "Technology was not too advanced at the time, so you were able to pay off someone to do the entrance exam on your behalf using your ID card. But do not forget about the surveillance cameras inside the exam rooms."

"I did not cheat. You are making up things." Kazuo protested, but he could not find anything else to defend himself.

"And, sending the video surveillance to your alma mater. Please look forward to your investigation and hearing." Akira said.

Kazuo rushed towards Akira to snatch the chunky phone from her, but she stood up and punched him in the abdomen, causing him to stumble backwards. He coughed painfully due to the impact, and Chiharu came forward to help him up.

"I might not want to risk fighting with trained guards, but I hardly need to move my hand to deal with all of you." Akira looked at each of them coldly before sitting down again. "For the sake of avoiding violence, I will ask you to remain seated until it is your turn."

Her smile widened like she was a demon without a hint of mercy. She might not be able to leave the house, but she meant it when she said that she would destroy their lives. No, she would reveal their darkest secrets and fix their self-righteous worldview.

She had commissioned Rai to do a deep search on the Yamazaki family after she saw the hidden shadows and secrets. However, she never looked at the information and did not intend to use it to harm them as long as they did not cross her bottom line.

And they looked at that line in their rearview mirror once they decided to imprison her and take her baby, literally an hour after she discovered she was going to have one.

"Akira, Kazuo is your brother. How can you do this to him?" Chiharu asked with her gracious and merciful demeanour.

"Don't be anxious, sister-in-law," Akira said. "I have a feeling that your secrets will be the juiciest."

Chiharu felt a cold sweat flow on her back before she shook it off. No, there was no need to be afraid of the little girl. She had always covered her tracks, regardless of what she did. She was not as dim-witted as her husband.

Her calculating eyes rested on Kazuo as she helped him back onto his seat. It might be time to cut him loose. He might not be able to bounce back if his university degree was revoked, considering Daiki's personality. He would become a useless second-generation.

Fortunately, Riki seemed to still have feelings for her.

And now, he could give her the life she had always wanted.

"Where was I before that rude interruption?" Akira asked sweetly. "Yes, the cheating idiot who did not cover his tracks well. I was planning on leaving it at that, but I don't want the university to waste too many resources investigating you."

"Let me send them a little more information. Let's see. It seems like you never completed a single assignment on your own, and you somehow managed to buy most exams. Maybe it is this university that needs to investigate its faculty."

"Do you think that it will be more dramatic if your cheating causes every professor to be investigated? I think that is a little more fun. And, send that to the ethics committee. Let's call it payback for trying to attack a little pregnant lady, ok?" Akira added.

Sayaka could not bear it anymore. "Are you really doing these things? I don't believe that you would do that to your brother. You can't have such a malicious heart."

Akira looked at her biological mother with amusement.

"That's where you are wrong, mommy dearest." She said. "I am more malicious than you can imagine. I tried to be nice to all of you. I did not even pose a threat or ask for your money. I did not even hold resentment when you all assumed I was plotting against my poor little cousin."

"But my humility does not mean that you can step on me. The moment you decided to choose your flimsy reputation over my wishes is the moment your perfect little life fell apart. And yes, I am doing these things. I can CC you if you like."

Sayaka realised that she never understood this daughter, even when they seemed close. Everything was just a façade. Otherwise, how could she not have seen such a dark heart? There was no way this was her daughter.

"Fine, you have made your point. You are powerful and can destroy us the way you like." Sayaka said with a hint of sorrow and weariness. "Just undo whatever you have done against Kazuo, and you can leave. No one will stop you."

Of course, Sayaka did not mean that. She could see that Akira cared about her baby and wanted to leave the house. She would be willing to do anything to protect that b*stard child. And that is what she was counting on.

As soon as Akira undid whatever mess she put Kazuo in, she would try to leave, and the guards would detain her until the people from that medical facility came. After that, a sedative would keep her calm until she delivered the baby.

"Have you heard that it is easier to invite a devil than to chase it away?" Akira laughed without the intention of moving from her comfortable seat. "And I am enjoying this too much. It is literally like watching a K-drama. And I have a feeling that today, we might just discover the mystery of my kidnapping. Is anyone else excited?"