Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 122 Miyagawa's Decision

night.

Tokyo, Shinjuku District, in a yakiniku restaurant called Liugesen, a man and a woman were sitting.At this time, it was almost 9 o'clock, and the tiredness after work had swept away the usual etiquette and politeness of Japanese people.In the whole barbecue restaurant, people were talking loudly everywhere, and from time to time, there was a crisp knocking sound of hitting wine glasses, and a burst of laughter broke out.

Miyagawa sat on the seat, his face flushed slightly, a little nervous, and his eyes glanced at the man opposite him from time to time.Although, this is not the first time that he and Bei Yuan have eaten at a restaurant, but in the past when the Kawamoto Expressway case was not over, when eating together, the two of them would talk about the case while eating at the dinner table.

However, at this moment, suddenly there was no job content to cover, Miyakawa suddenly felt a little at a loss, and didn't know what to talk about.Wagyu beef slices were placed on the table in front of him. Miyagawa carefully picked up the meat slices with chopsticks and placed them on the wire mesh in the middle of the table.

"Crackling", the delicate fat continuously popped out of the meat slices, and a piece of bright red raw meat suddenly turned into brown cooked meat.

Beiyuan on the opposite side continued to pick up the meat, grill it, dip it in the sauce, and eat it. The whole set of actions was smooth and unrestrained, and he quickly wiped out a plate of Wagyu.

The two of them haven't spoken a word since the food was served.It was originally a celebration banquet for the Kawamoto Expressway case, but the atmosphere suddenly became a little weird.For a moment, Miyagawa didn't know how to break the silence.

"Miyagawa."

"Huh?" Hearing that Kitahara in front of him finally spoke, Miyagawa immediately raised his head.

Bei Yuan in front of him was sandwiching a piece of meat, dipped in the dipping sauce.Under the iron net, the device that was supposed to absorb the barbecue smoke seemed to be malfunctioning, and a puff of white smoke came out from under the iron net, immediately covering the expression of the man in front of him.Even though the distance is so close, I can't see his face clearly.

"It's time to go back to your father's law firm."

Amidst the white smoke, came Bei Yuan's voice.

Miyakawa was holding the chopsticks of salad vegetables, and suddenly froze.This simple sentence made her heart constrict suddenly.Hearing this sentence, Miyagawa finally understood why the atmosphere at the table today was so weird.

original……

It turns out...today is not just a celebration banquet.

It turned out to be a farewell banquet to myself.

"Beiyuan... don't you want me to be by your side?" Miyagawa said with a trembling voice.

"No. It's just that it's better for you to stay at your father's law firm. Why are you on my side?" Bei Yuan held the teacup on the table next to him and took a sip, "It's better to be at your father's side. I grew up. My place is just a small law firm, not to mention still owed debts. It is very different from your father's law firm. "

Miyagawa lowered her head slightly, her hair hanging down, covering her eyes, and the hand holding the chopsticks, the knuckles were a little white due to excessive force.

In her heart, pictures of this lawsuit kept flashing.From the initial reception of Terai and his wife, seeing the couple quarreling at a loss, to the moment when the civil complaint was drafted and mailed to Kawamoto Expressway, to that rainy night in Tokyo Bay.

"Beiyuan, do you know what I have experienced most in this lawsuit?"

Seemingly unexpected that the girl in front of him would ask him a question, Kitahara couldn't help being slightly taken aback, and raised his head to look at Miyagawa.

Miyagawa smiled: "In the past, I always thought that a litigator was just writing and arguing in court. But it wasn't until I went through this case that I realized...that it turns out that a litigator is protecting someone else's dream."

"In the process of receiving the client, the thing that impressed me the most was the noon when Mr. Terai came to the law firm on the first day. He talked about his dream of becoming an automobile engineer like a child. From that moment , I realized that the case we dealt with may be just a case to us, but to the client, it is their life."

"This kind of experience is something I have never felt in my father's law firm before. In my father's law firm, all I do is some stock and debt issuance work."

"Every day, I face and deal with the financial statements of the company, as well as other materials for due diligence."

"I thought . . . that was what legal work was about."

"I thought... legal work is so cold and boring."

"It wasn't until this case that I realized that behind the law, behind the original case, were the lives of one person after another. It turned out that the court documents we submitted to the court, it turned out that every word we said in court, In the end, the impact is not only on the outcome of the case, but also on the lives of our clients.”

As he spoke, Miyagawa in front of him became a little agitated, as if there was a swaying wind and rain in his heart, as if some important decision was about to be made.But Miyagawa took a deep breath, raised his head and looked at Beiyuan in front of him.

Even if the white smoke from the barbecue grill smoky her eyes, she still had to look at Beiyuan in front of her.

In the next second, Miyagawa opened his mouth and said:

"So... so, Kitahara. I want to be a litigator."

"Please let me stay by your side."

The girl's voice was not loud, but it still passed through the noisy voices around her clearly, and transmitted to the eardrums of the man in front of her very clearly.

Just like Terai, when he was in school, he was very excited when he saw a bus, and he had a dream of becoming an automobile engineer.

The girl in front of her also had her dream for the first time.

I no longer chose to study law because of my father's order.

I no longer chose to work in a law firm because of my father's order.

At this moment, she also had a dream.

A dream of becoming a litigator.

Hearing what Miyakawa said in front of him, Beiyuan burst out laughing. He didn't expect that Miyagawa had so many insights in this lawsuit.Immediately, he picked up another piece of meat and put it on the iron rack: "If you want to be a litigator, you don't necessarily have to wait and follow me. Your father doesn't have more cases."

"I don't know why..." Under the stimulation of the white smoke from the barbecue, Miyakawa blinked his eyes vigorously, and the soreness of the eye mask faded away, "I always feel that I can find an answer in Beiyuan. I don't know what I am looking for What are you thinking about, what is the confusion in your heart. But I always feel that what I have been looking for is right in front of me.”

Just like the first time when Beiyuan and Miyagawa met at Jiangto Law Firm, Beiyuan felt that under the seemingly soft appearance of this girl, the inner temperament was actually more stubborn than looking for someone, so he could only smile and said, "Let's do it. Gong Chuan, if you want to go back, you can go anytime. Alright, let’s eat quickly. You didn’t move your chopsticks much tonight.”

Hearing these words, Miyagawa's heart that was hanging just now was really relieved, and he finally got the mood to pick up a piece of wagyu beef and put it on the iron rack, "Beiyuan, you are really good in this lawsuit. "

"Actually, we won by luck this time." Bei Yuan, who was sitting opposite, sneered slightly.
"It's a fluke... a fluke?!" Hearing this, Miyagawa suddenly raised his head, showing a somewhat unbelievable expression.Beiyuan put so much effort into this lawsuit, in the end he actually said it was just a fluke.

"Yes. You should thank Judge Kumagai for adjudicating this case according to the no-fault rule of contract breach." Kitahara said, "I believe this loophole will be filled soon. That is, the spill dispute on the highway , it will no longer be judged according to the no-fault rule of contract breach, but will be changed to the fault rule or a new liability principle will be set up specifically for this type of dispute. I estimate that in the future, the legislation will be revised, that is, as long as the expressway company proves that If its conservation behavior conforms to national standards, it will no longer bear responsibility."

While talking, Kitahara took out his mobile phone and put it in front of Miyagawa.But I saw a piece of news displayed on the mobile phone: Gunma County, the reporter found that someone had deliberately spilled objects on the expressway, faked the accident, and imitated suing the expressway company.

When Miyagawa watched the news, the chopsticks in his hand stopped immediately, and he froze in place.Every word in this news report was stabbed like a shining knife.The efforts she and Beiyuan made before are now being used by some people to blackmail road companies.

The sense of justice that belonged only to young people in his heart was suddenly aroused again.

Why, would anyone want to do this?

Don't they know it's wrong?
Why, they clearly know that this is a bad thing, but they still do it like this?
The surroundings of the barbecue restaurant are still buzzing with people.The girl sitting in this position seemed to see a hideous side of the world that she had never noticed before.

(End of this chapter)