Chapter 274: Gambling

Sakai Masao was a bit unhappy, “You’re clearly blaming me for what you’re saying! In the beginning, who would have expected that this child, Justice, would be able to have such great accomplishments nowadays?

In the beginning, our intentions were relatively simple. On the one hand, it was to fulfill the agreement between the two families, so that the two children could develop a relationship, after all, under the same roof, it is inevitable that a love for each other will develop over time.

On the other hand, we wanted to relieve Rie of some of her financial burden. Rent and living expenses for the four years she’s been studying in Tokyo don’t add up to a lot of money. Who asked her to spend so much money on music and art?

Besides, you agreed with me before I sent Rie to Tokyo University of the Arts. Now, you’re blaming it all on me alone.”

“It’s not like I said I blame you.” Aiko Sakai defended.

“Even according to your current thinking, I’m afraid that it would be completely unrealistic for me not to send Rie inside the Justice’s house in Tokyo in the first place, in favor of Meiling!

Even if Rie doesn’t live in Tokyo’s Justice’s house, she still has to go to university in Tokyo, and she still has to find a place to live. At the end of the day, her expenses still fall on our shoulders.

The reason why our family is in such a bad situation now is not only my fault for losing money on stocks, but also your fault for running a folkloric inn.

It was you who were bent on arbitrarily assuming that after the Asian financial crisis, the economy would pick up and the business of the Folk Inn would be better.

So you mortgaged the house we are living in to the bank and borrowed a lot of money. But that’s not true. For that, have I ever blamed you? No, I didn’t!” Masao Sakai perked up.

“My dear, I know. I know with all my heart that you’re the best, most loving man I’ve ever had.” Aiko Sakai curried with a smile on her face.

“Let’s not talk about some of these awful things. Let’s just think about how to deal with our immediate needs!” Sakai Masao didn’t reason endlessly like a woman.

“If Justice is really trying to clear this one obstacle to marrying Kyoko Fukada, it could be really troublesome.” Aiko Sakai pulled back to the topic and said.

“I don’t intend to hand over this oath in my hand. If I don’t give it to Justice, is it hard to believe that he would dare to come and rob it?” Masao Sakai swore.

“My dear, of course you can choose not to hand over the oath book. However, you must not forget that our family’s outstanding debts do not wait for anyone.” Aiko Sakai reminded.

Sakai Masao immediately wilted like a deflated ball. He was someone who had both worked inside a bank, so he naturally knew exactly what the price to pay for bankruptcy was.

Precisely because the price is too high, is to let the husband and wife want to do everything possible to avoid bankruptcy.

Sakai Masao hands from top to bottom of all the pockets, but did not find cigarettes. He then remembered that he had been forced by his debt to even start quitting smoking.

“If you have another solution, even if it’s just one, it’s perfectly fine to not accept the terms that Justice offered and had Rie convey to us.” Aiko Sakai said calmly.

“It looks like we’ll have to accept such an alliance under the city?” Masao Sakai said extremely helplessly.

“We are not completely without bargaining room. Is Justice going to help us pay off our outstanding debts as well as give us a hundred million yen in cash for our retirement?

In fact, it’s not impossible for us to offer to ask him for two hundred million yen, five hundred million yen, or even one billion yen, or even more.

Only, if we really do so, it will be tantamount to making Justice’s heart turn against us, causing both Rie, and Meiling, including all of us in the Sakai family, to fall out of his favor.” Sakai Aiko analyzed seriously.

“This wishful thinking of yours may not work either. I believe that Justice eats up what it means to have no time to wait. We’re as anxious as ants on a hot pan, but he doesn’t have to be anxious at all. We are the ones in debt, not him.

He only needs to wait until we are bankrupt before he talks about the oath. By then, we will be undercut, and it’s only natural that we won’t be able to get the kind of price he’s offering now. On top of bargaining, we don’t have the advantage, but are at a disadvantage.” Masao Sakai spoke eloquently.

“The problem is, if we don’t ask for more money at the moment, then I’m afraid we won’t be able to ask for any more in the future. Even if you don’t think about your own two daughters, you have to think about Shota!” Sakai Aiko still loved her youngest son the most and said.

Sakai Masao did not reply and suddenly walked around inside the house. He couldn’t stop walking for several laps. His own head was a mess inside, and his heart was full of contradictions.

Out of his intention, he naturally did not want to be so dishonorable and immoral. However, he was unable to do anything about his current debt.

Sakai Masao’s head inside a flash of light, stopped and stood still, said: “Gambling, we can only go out and gamble so a hand. The gamble is that Justice this child’s heart is in love with our Rie.”

“What do you mean?” Sakai Aiko asked, unsure of her meaning.

“It might as well be that we pretend we don’t know anything, that we didn’t do any analysis, that we just openly accept Justice’s kindness in clearing our debts for us, but not the extra hundred million yen he gave us for our retirement.

We are twelve times more grateful to him for doing the Sakai family such a great favor, after all, for getting our family through the biggest crisis and difficulty we’ve ever faced. What do you think?” Sakai Masao said slowly.

Sakai Aiko completely understood the meaning of her man’s one bet. In her opinion, as long as they didn’t ask for a lion’s share of the money, the likelihood was relatively high that they would be able to ask for more money than what they had now.

Of course, this was also to make it clear that there was no room for maneuver. If in accordance with their own men’s such a way, although they take less, but there is a look.

If their husband and wife’s guess is not justice this child’s idea? He still loved Rie in his heart, and it wouldn’t affect the relationship between the two of them, as well as the relationship between the Kishimoto and Sakai families. Of course, once the gamble was lost and it was all that they had analyzed, it would be a real loss.

So, Sakai Aiko weighed and weighed, but still could not make up her mind, after all, one hundred million yen more or less was just a matter of numbers for Kishimoto Masayoshi, but for her, it was like digging meat from the top of her heart.

“You’d better say something!” Masao Sakai urged.

“You’re the head of the family, not me. Why don’t you rethink if there are other ways?” Sakai Aiko, still heartbroken over the number on the money said.

“How come I’m the only one left to think about it, are you?” Masao Sakai asked back.

“Okay, okay, I’ll think with you. Let’s come up with a foolproof plan that will be acceptable to the boy Justice and will also save us from having to feel bad.

What really didn’t occur to me was not only losing money can be upsetting, but making money can be upsetting as well, and it’s totally over the top.”

Sakai Aiko and dish out the truest feeling of the moment was as if she was speculating in stocks. The stock in your hand is moving upward, and you are both worried that it will suddenly fall, and you are also afraid that you will throw it away too early.

If it is still going up, even if you throw it out and make money, it is the same as losing money. After all, people’s mental state and eyes are generally looking upwards.