Chapter 275 Mortgage
Not too many days later, Masao Sakai and Aiko Sakai brought their youngest son, Shota Sakai, to Tokyo from their hometown of Kochi Prefecture. They appeared inside the living room of the Kishimoto family’s home in Minato-ku Nishi-Azabu.
In addition to the three of them, the two sisters, Sakai Mirei and Sakai Rie, were also there. As Masayoshi Kishimoto saw that the entire Sakai family was present, he more or less understood what was going on.
He fully realized the seriousness of the current atmosphere. He was sure that what was to follow would not be as easy and pleasant as the conversation.
Kishimoto Masayoshi put himself in the Sakai family’s shoes and considered the same problem, but it was quite understandable.
I am afraid that the Sakai family would not regard myself as a monk’s meat when I am nothing but a poor boy with no money, no house, no car, and even no career.
Not only the Sakai family, but also the demons, ghosts, spirits, and even the gods outside were more or less of the same mindset.
It wasn’t that the Sakai family was so powerful, but rather it was an instinctive human tendency and human nature. Especially for parents, how could they willingly marry their own daughter, whom they had raised for many years, to a poor boy?
Even if they didn’t have the luxury of dipping into their daughter’s light, they wouldn’t want to see their daughter living a miserable life and coming back to her mother’s house every now and then to fight or cry.
“Is it up to you to say it, or is it up to me?” Sitting on top of the long sofa in the living room, Sakai Aiko looked at her husband who was on the side of her, and said in a serious manner.
“It’s better for you to say it!” Sakai Masao still hadn’t gotten over that hurdle in his heart.
“Justice! We know all the words you asked Rie to convey to us. Since you want that copy of the oath in our hands, then we’ll just give it to you.”
Sakai Aiko said and took the initiative to bring out the oath book. With her own two hands, she placed it on top of the crystal coffee table and made it so that Masayoshi Kishimoto, who was sitting on top of the single sofa on the left side, could see it clearly.
Masayoshi Kishimoto did not show the slightest bit of embarrassment. In his mind, this was a fair deal between you and me. As long as they were half unwilling, he would not force himself.
“Since you all brought your oaths here, then I will honor my promise here.” Justice Kishimoto said firmly.
“There’s no rush. Just hear me out first. Shota, Rie, and Meiling, all three of you are here as well, so it’s time for you to know how an actual situation inside our family is. The Sakai family is not what it used to be, we are about to go bankrupt.” Sakai Aiko said with a meticulously smile on her face.
When these words came out, Sakai Rie showed a calm demeanor, after all, she had known it for a long time. Although Mei Ling showed some surprise, she did not say anything.
As a matter of fact, she had already sensed that her family’s financial situation was deteriorating, after all, her entire expenses were paid by Masayoshi Kishimoto.
After all, her entire expenses were paid for by Masayoshi Kishimoto. If her family’s financial condition was good, she would never accept this kind of help from the other party. Only the youngest, Shota, had a look of horror on his face.
He acted like a headless fly, incredulously saying: ”Mom, you’re not joking with us, are you?
Don’t you still have a bed and breakfast inn? Isn’t my dad still the head of the bank? How could this be the case?”
“I’m really not joking. Our family is really just one step away from bankruptcy. The person who can save our family from this is no one other than you, Brother Justice.” Aiko Sakai’s pair of eyes looked towards her youngest son and said seriously.
“Brother Justice, you should save our family! I don’t want to be told by my classmates and friends that I’m the son of a broken family. In the past, there was a ……” Sakai Shota with a horrified expression looked to Kishimoto Justice in making a begging statement.
“Don’t you interrupt, listen to your mom finish her speech.” Sakai Masao interjected in and chided his youngest son before he interrupted the other party and said.
“I hope that you, Masayoshi, will be able to lend us a sum of money to tide us over. As for the 100 million yen pension money, we firmly do not want it. Both Rie and Meiling have already caused you a lot of trouble.
Here is the loan note signed with our names as husband and wife, as well as our respective personal seals.” Sakai Aiko took out an IOU that she had prepared long ago.
After hearing her say this, Masayoshi Kishimoto understood in his heart that the other party was bargaining with himself. It seemed that the husband and wife had studied it over and over again. Otherwise, how could they have made their words watertight?
He said very calmly, ”It looks like you guys are not accepting the price I offered. What price do you guys want, say it so I can hear it first.”
“You are really being overly concerned. We are marrying our daughters, not selling them. If we hadn’t been forced above this point today, our couple would never have borrowed such a sum of money using the oath as collateral.”
Sakai Aiko was not speaking in a grandiose manner, but was speaking the big truth. They but one more way, resolutely could not do such an undignified thing.
Masayoshi Kishimoto knew in his heart that even if he had just lent out tens of millions of yen to the two of them for emergencies and turnover as the Sakai couple had intended, it was very likely that he would not have been able to save their family.
It was not difficult for him to predict that after the Sakai couple got the money, the first thing they would do was to pay back the money, but they might not pay off all their debts at once, but rather, they would pay off the most urgent money.
Nine times out of ten, they will continue to pour money into the ancestral folklore inn to have another go.
The reasoning was actually very simple, it was impossible for them not to understand what it meant to sit on their asses. This person had to need to find something to do.
After all, they had been middle class for many decades from birth until now. If they are suddenly reduced to poverty and then go to work in some undignified jobs, then I am afraid that it is really hard to accept in their hearts.
Instead of doing something they didn’t know how to do, it was better to go back to their old jobs. Sakai Aiko continue to engage in business, and Sakai Masao after all, is a man who has been in the bank for more than 20 years, bookkeeping and accounting and so on, always still know.
In the back of their minds were thoughts of paying themselves back. If they only relied on low-level labor to earn money, they would never be able to pay back the money in their lifetime.
Even so, it might not always work out the way they want it to. In the Sakai couple’s case, paying back the money was not only a way to get back the oath that had been pledged to them, but it was also a way to get back their dignity and face.
From now on, not only were they equals, but they could still look at themselves from above and below as elders, prospective parents-in-law.
They have nothing to say, after all, is that there has been as good as a normal loan relationship. Borrowing money to pay back the money, plus if also paid interest, who also can’t say who.