Chapter 097: Luxury House

This morning, Sakai Rie finished her class, and as soon as she stepped out of the classroom door, her left and right arms were taken directly by Sato Ryoumi and Watanabe Saeki respectively.

She was not the least bit prepared for this sudden “kidnapping” in her mind. She looked around at their smiling faces and was confused.

“Rie, we’ve known each other for so long, so you should show us the mansion you live in!” Satou Ryoumi smirked.

“As of today, I haven’t been to your home in Tokyo either! Not only are we neighbors, but we’re also partners who grew up together.” Watanabe Saki smiled sideways.

Rie Sakai knew that it was impossible not to say yes to both of them. She hesitated slightly, not without thinking of Masayoshi Kishimoto’s trip to San Francisco, USA.

Right now, she was alone in the house, and it was really cold and quiet. If someone could come, there would be popularity. Even if she dirtied a good part of the home, she could just clean it herself.

“Then let’s go! However, we have to have a word of honor, don’t spread it around inside the school.” Sakai Rie said a small request of her own while agreeing to it said.

With smiles on their faces, Satou Ryoumi and Watanabe Saeki nodded in agreement. They sandwiched Rie Sakai’s left and right sides and continued walking forward.

The three of them left Tokyo University of the Arts without having to take either the subway or the bus, and walked to the place with a stroll along the way.

When Sato Ryoumi and Watanabe Saeki first saw the exterior of this high-class elevator apartment building, they couldn’t help but stop and raise their heads to see from the bottom to the top, and from the top to the bottom again.

After all, they could tell it was a high-class elevator apartment at first glance. After all, they knew it was a high-class elevator apartment, and it was located in the Ueno shopping district of Taito City.

Satou Ryoumi and Watanabe Saki were both non-Tokyo outsiders, but they had been here for a year and a half attending university.

Universities in RB generally don’t have student dormitories, and even if they do, there are not enough of them to go around. Therefore, it’s not unusual to rent an off-campus apartment in RB.

This is located in the vicinity of the university house rent is generally higher. To put it bluntly, landlords are targeting college students to rent apartments.

Most college students who want to save some money on rent will not rent in the neighborhood. It’s not that they don’t want to, it’s just that reality doesn’t allow it.

If the university is also located in a busy area above the business district, the rent is even more “rubbing” towards the above, and can be rented here college students, but also often called by schoolmates to live in the mansion.

Ryoomi Sato and Saki Watanabe could not afford to rent an apartment near Tokyo University of the Arts. Even if they came from middle-class families in the area, they found Tokyo’s rent so expensive.

The two were still divided into upper, middle and lower classes even if they came from middle class families in RB. Even one level above, there would be no small difference.

Satou Ryoumi belonged to a middle-middle level family among the middle class and rented in the JD district. Saki Watanabe belonged to a lower-middle class family and lived in Sumida Ward.

In Tokyo, living in one of the 23 wards was a reflection of one’s class. RB people also love to classify everything into one, two, three, four, five.

People with old money generally live in the three districts, Chuo, Minato-ku and Chiyoda-ku. The new rich tend to live in Shinagawa and Setagaya.

The Shibuya and Shinjuku districts in the three sub-centers of the metropolis are also popular places for young people to rent. Even if they can’t afford to rent a house alone, they are happy to live in a colony like an ant colony. The reason is that this is Shibuya or Shinjuku.

As for Bunkyo Ward, which is also a sub-city center, because the University of Tokyo is located here, it has the best law and order, the highest literacy level of the permanent residents, as well as a variety of schools that have long dominated the NO.1 position in Tokyo’s twenty-three wards, which is a true reflection of its name as well.

Adachi, Kita, Itabashi, Katsushika, Arakawa, and Edogawa are notoriously poor neighborhoods among Tokyo’s 23 wards.

Adachi Ward, in particular, has always been the target of various disses by the other 22 wards. Edogawa Ward is the place where most of the other Asian outsiders live.

Taito Ward is neither the center of Tokyo’s 23 wards, nor a sub-center, but it is very much a reflection of Tokyo’s Edo style. It is the equivalent of the third ring road of the Chinese empire.

Taito Ward is not well known as a whole, and is one of the 15 wards of old Tokyo, while the two most famous shopping districts are Ueno and Asakusa.

It was in Ueno where Rie Sakai lived, still in a fancy elevator apartment. The place where she lived naturally became the envy of many people.

Rie Sakai led her two classmates into the luxurious interior lobby of the apartment and took the elevator up eighteen floors to her home. When she opened the door, it once again gave them the effect of their eyes unconsciously widening.

“Rie, how big is your place?” Sato Ryoumi, the last bit of her self-confidence gone, couldn’t help but is curious question.

“It’s like 53 stickers (One sticker in RB is equivalent to a little over 1.6 square meters. In total, that’s 85 square meters of floor space.

(A house of around 100 square meters according to Chinese floor area).” Rie Sakai didn’t have a single star to show off and said in a cloudy manner.

After Sato Ryoumi and Watanabe Saeki entered the house, their entire facial expressions were getting more and more surprised. Like the place they rented, it was nothing more than about ten square meters.

The larger residences were only about twenty square meters, while the smaller ones didn’t even have an area of ten square meters. The level of prosperity was not comparable to this place at all.

To be able to live in such a spacious 3LDK house, with a good location, good decoration, and a short period of time, was undoubtedly a symbol of the rich in the minds of ordinary people.

Similarly, those who live in those so-called rich people’s districts are not necessarily all rich people. Quite a number of people are living inside the dormitories provided by their companies.

Many others live in houses that are 40 or 50 years old. The thing that they are proud of is the prosperity of the entire district.

This people who live in Tokyo’s 23rd Ward, even the worst Adachi Ward, will defend to the death not to move out. Even if the rent is going to be cheaper out of the 23rd Ward, they don’t want it.

In their opinion, out of the 23rd Ward, can it still be called Tokyo? In fact, in addition to the 23 wards, Tokyo includes another 26 cities, 5 towns, and 8 villages.

Some places are so desolate that even the people who live there don’t believe that the place they live in could be in Tokyo, the number one city in Asia.

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window, Sato Ryoumi took in the beautiful view of Ueno’s city and said with emotion, “It’s so nice.”

Watanabe Saeki standing next to her couldn’t help but nod her head and said, “It really is a place where rich people live.”