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Chapter 107 Intelligence
Chapter 107 Intelligence
The two sisters seemed quite interested in this type of game after playing board games last time.
Given their status, going out would still be somewhat restricted, so Kirihara Akira simply asked Asahi and Kanade to buy a few popular board games to play at home.
The family rules are strict, and the group only plays a few games when the lady is not at home.
Kirihara Akatsuki, Mori Shizue, and Mori Kiyoha sat around the stone table in the pavilion, the cards on the table remaining unplayed because they were waiting for someone.
While waiting for someone, Mori Kiyoha suddenly said, "That old woman, Kisaragi Shiori, has made her appearance."
"Yes, all the doubts I had about her before have been dispelled," Shizue Mori said.
Kirihara Akira possessed a professional-level anti-gank awareness, and he keenly sensed that Mori Kiyoha's mention of this topic was definitely not well-intentioned.
So he wisely kept quiet.
"I also heard that before the performance, she clarified a fact," Mori Kiyoha said. "She said that the song was not written by her, but was given to her by someone who is very important to her."
Kirihara Akatsuki lowered her head even further.
"The ostrich can't save him," Mori Kiyoha said quietly. "Bluebird Teacher, huh?"
Teacher Qingniao is his stage name—or rather, pen name.
Kirihara Akira covered her face.
Serving a ruler is like serving a tiger.
He said, "Second Miss, can't you just ignore me like I'm nothing?"
"Hmph." The second young lady sneered and said, "Someone told me that all male high school students are like monkeys, they all like big ones."
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Kirihara Akatsuki was practically drooling as she said, "Some people like older women, but I don't."
"Stop pretending!" Mori Kiyoha kicked him and said, "There's nothing wrong with admitting it. That old woman, Kisaragi Shiori, does have a magnificent figure that most women can't match."
"That's all just superficial appearances," Kirihara Akira said. "It's all just appearances, boring stuff."
Mori Kiyoha was about to launch another attack when, fortunately, his savior arrived.
Asahi and Kazusa jogged all the way back to the pavilion.
She bowed and handed the document to Mori Kiyoha.
Mori Kiyoha took the document and handed it to Kirihara Akira, saying, "Let's play cards first."
Poor Asahi Kasano, having just managed to sit down, had to hurriedly pick up two cards from the table and start thinking.
He and the three women are currently playing a game called the "Love Letter Game," also known as the "Princess Game."
The rules are simple. In the basic version, four people play with sixteen cards. Each card has a value from one to eight and a special ability. At the start, each person draws one card. During their turn, they draw one card from the deck, choose one card from their hand to discard, and activate its effect. The winning conditions are also simple.
Either all players are eliminated before the deck is empty, leaving only one player, or after the deck is empty, the surviving players compare the values of their remaining cards.
Kirihara Akira played cards while looking at the documents, appearing somewhat distracted. He casually played a card and passed his turn.
Sen Qingye revealed a Guardian with a low point value. Although this card has the highest number of points, it also comes with a knife. It can designate one person and guess what that person's hand is. If the guess is correct, that person is eliminated.
The younger sister looked at her older sister, the meaning of which was self-evident.
The older sister, Shizue Mori, held up her card and said provocatively, "Maybe I'm a princess?"
Mori Kiyoha rolled her eyes and said, "Then I guess you're a princess."
Mori Shizue's expression froze.
She turned over her hand, and it really was a princess.
"You're always thinking about unconventional methods; only an idiot like you thinks you're so clever!"
The two sisters started bickering again, and Kirihara Akira, who was looking at the documents nearby, was amused by their antics.
Mori Shizue seems like a very intelligent person, but once she gets involved in games, only heaven knows why she becomes so silly.
Just as her role was correctly guessed and she was eliminated, Kirihara Akira quickly finished reading the document in her hand and then handed it to Mori Shizue.
Mori Shizue was fuming, and still seemed a little confused when she took the document.
However, as she looked through the documents, her expression gradually became serious.
She asked, "Yes, the materials Hino Harufumi prepared for you?"
"Yes, it contains records of what he kept over the years while working with Suruga Daichi," Kirihara Akira said. "There's a very crucial piece of information in it."
After reviewing the information, Mori Shizue said, "Suruga Daichi was the Yamaei-kai chairman's henchman in the early days. In recent years, he seems to have been gradually marginalized. According to the data, this may be related to the Yamaei-kai's gradual consolidation of its business."
"The Suruga Group, in its early years, supplied talent to Ten'ei Entertainment, which was established by the San'ei Group." Many of the singers and artists who rose to fame through this group in the early years were basically selected from the Suruga Group's programs.
"..." Mori Shizue suddenly clenched the document, clearly angered by its contents.
She took a deep breath and said, "But as time went on, Tianrong Entertainment gradually became a stable cash cow for the Shanrong Association. The main family began to think about how to launder this business. The first step in laundering it was to sever its connection with the Black Glove Suruga Office."
Kirihara Akira played a card, saying, "Yes, that's why the Suruga Group has been gradually marginalized. Hino Harufumi was a thorn planted by the main family in the Suruga Group to keep them in check."
"Ahem." Asahi Kasano coughed lightly, as if to remind everyone, "Gentlemen and ladies, perhaps I should excuse myself for a moment?"
"There's no one around. If our conversation today gets exposed, it'll be because you leaked it." Mori Kiyoha glanced at her.
Asahi Kasano's face was full of bitterness.
These guys aren't even trying to hide anything from me anymore; they're practically trying to drag me down with them!
"So that's how it is. No wonder the Suruga Group, which used to be so arrogant, has become so low-key this year." Mori Shizue said thoughtfully.
"With their status marginalized and their business scope forced to shrink, the group's revenue is declining day by day. They can no longer afford to pay the share they used to hand over to the main family every six months. They can only force themselves to take the share from a few junior leaders and their assistants and hand it over to the main family," Kirihara Akira said. "But there is a problem."
Mori Kiyoha put down her cards and snuggled closer to her sister, the two of them pressed together as they looked at the same document.
Mori Shizue turned the page and continued the question: "In the first half of this year, the Suruga Group actually managed to perfectly hand over the share that the main family wanted while protecting the interests of the group itself?"
"Yes," Kirihara Akira said. "Hino Harufumi always felt something was wrong and didn't know where Suruga Group Leader got the money, but out of consideration for Suruga's father, he chose not to report this suspicion."
"It wasn't until he was on the verge of death that he finally couldn't take it anymore," Kirihara Akira said.
"This is really complicated." Mori Kiyoha pouted and played a maid card.
"It's indeed complicated," Kirihara Akira said. "Based on recent events, he deduced that the Suruga Group's finances are in trouble—to be more precise, the Suruga Group may have sold something they shouldn't have to cover up a hole that was impossible to mend."
"I see."
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