Chapter 014 Akihabara
On Christmas Eve, Masayoshi Kishimoto originally did not intend to go out and stayed at home to read manga, play games, catch up on dramas, and live like a god.
However, ever since Sakai Rie said that he would be spending Christmas alone, he became angry. He couldn’t let the other person see the joke, so he left the house early in the morning.
Masayoshi Kishimoto’s arrangement for the day was to not wander around Taito District so that he wouldn’t run into Rie Sakai. In addition to the Asakusa and Ueno shopping districts, the Toshogu Shrine in Ueno, the Torigoe Shrine, the Tokyo Metropolitan National Museum, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art were also located in the Taito district.
Literary college girls like Rie Sakai always show up at places with a strong humanistic and artistic flavor, is so as to show that they are different. At night, then find a small bar to drink and welcome Christmas.
Masayoshi Kishimoto, in order not to run into Rie Sakai, so he made up his mind to go to Akihabara in Chiyoda Ward, the mecca of otaku, and the place most despised by Rie Sakai.
Chiyoda Ward borders Taito Ward, so it’s not that far, just take the bus. Masayoshi Kishimoto walked to the bus stop and waited patiently for an incoming bus to Akihabara.
When the bus arrived, he threw money through the front door and got on, then took the initiative to walk towards the back. After waiting for the people to finish getting on and off, the driver closed the door and restarted the bus.
After passing several bus stops along the way, Akihabara arrived. Masayoshi Kishimoto got out of the car through the back door and started his day’s journey to Akihabara.
He walked on the street, although he felt the obvious Christmas atmosphere, but everyone’s hands did not have big bags of various kinds of buy buy buy, window shopping people mostly.
Even if the average child in his country relied on his personal part-time job to earn his pocket money, he knew in his heart where the reason for the current economic downturn lay.
If the parents of the family is dismissed, unemployed, life will become unprotected, where there will be for dispensable things wantonly spend money it?
The saying that a wall is a suite for geeks is for the landed geeks. As for the average otaku, hand-me-downs are also very limited.
Masayoshi Kishimoto was one of the exceptions. Currently, the cash in his hand was extremely abundant. In addition to the money from the sale of the bouncy house, there was also a two-year mortgage on real estate to the Mitsui Bank that had also been successfully approved.
These two sums of money together were deposited into his personal account at Mitsui Bank.The interest rate of RB Commercial Bank was better than nothing. The interest rate is zero for a long time, and if there is a bad economy, there will be a negative interest rate.
In fact, the reason is very simple, is to encourage people to spend more, is able to stimulate economic recovery. At the same time, it can also give enterprises to reduce the burden of loans above, to encourage more investment.
Furthermore, the RB central bank is not too fond of simple, direct, rough to issue more money, currency devaluation operation, more inclined to stabilize the value of the currency. In the blood and marrow of this group of financial elites, the principle of free market economy is practiced.
“Ran into you again.” Kyoko Fukada stopped Masayoshi Kishimoto’s path head-on and said with a slight smile.
Kishimoto Masayoshi saw in front of him a young girl who would become a big star in the future, with baby fat on her face and a naturally rounded body was at a loss for words.
“I called you at the number above your business card. The other party said that you had already sold the bouncy house a long time ago and quit.”
Kyoko Fukada was inwardly disturbed that he hadn’t taken the initiative to call her to claim the cost of dry-cleaning her jacket, so she made a passive-aggressive call first and said.
Masayoshi Kishimoto instantly remembered that he had used the same business card as the one he had used in the past for the bouncy house. For that reason, he had never thought of asking the other party to pay for dry cleaning.
Today, he never expected that he would happen to meet Kyoko Fukada again in Akihabara. Tokyo was one of the three major international cities, and it wasn’t easy for two strangers to meet again in a sea of people.
“Didn’t I tell you the other day to forget about it. Besides, you didn’t mean to do it in the first place.” Justice Kishimoto said calmly.
“I’m a person who dislikes owing others the most.” Kyoko Fukada said seriously.
“It’s not like you’re going to pay me for dry cleaning right now!” Masayoshi Kishimoto cried out.
Fukada Kyouko did not fail to feel that it was a kind of fate to be able to meet each other in a sea of people, saying, “I can treat you to a cup of coffee, which is a kind of payment for the dry-cleaning of your jacket.”
Masayoshi Kishimoto had no reason to refuse, so he nodded in agreement. They walked side by side and didn’t have to go far before they found a maid caf茅.
The two were seated face to face in a window seat. She asked for a cappuccino and he asked for a latte.
“Aren’t you worried about being photographed by the paparazzi with a strange man like me? When that time comes, it will be published by gossip magazines, and that is something that will definitely have a negative impact on your career.” Masayoshi Kishimoto put himself in her shoes and said.
Fukada Kyoko smiled and said, “Thank you for thinking of me. However, for a newcomer like me, who has only been on the scene for a short while, there won’t be any paparazzi following me.
If a paparazzo catches me with you and publishes it, I’ll have to thank that person. The firm and I don’t have to spend any money to be noticed.
Besides, we’re having a coffee like this in broad daylight, and we’re not making any intimate gestures, so what’s there to be afraid of?
In our line of work, we are not afraid of being scolded, but afraid of being ignored. Even if you make up your own concoctions of flamboyant news, you’re still increasing your exposure.”
“I believe that you will become popular in the near future. Not only will you be able to be popular throughout RB, but you will also be popular throughout Asia.” Masayoshi Kishimoto said without joking.
Kyoko Fukada picked up the coffee with both hands and took a sip, with some coffee foam on top of her lips saying, “Thank you for your kind words. Which is your favorite female actress?”
“One? No, I have two favorite actresses. One is Suzuki Honomi, and the other is Fujiwara Norika.” Masayoshi Kishimoto said truthfully.
Kyoko Fukada froze for a moment, after all, she was going to be co-starring in the Japanese drama News Girl with these two people he was talking about.
Of course, she was playing a small, unassuming supporting role within the drama. The first female lead was Honomi Suzuki, while the second female lead was naturally Norika Fujiwara.
She hadn’t spilled the beans, partly because she was worried that the other party would beg for one of her whatever. No matter what, they just knew each other and were not considered friends yet;
The other side was that she herself didn’t know the man in front of her who used to run a pop-up room yet either. It wasn’t a good thing to get too involved with an outsider with a complicated social background. These were the exact words that her agent had bitterly warned her about.