Chapter 445: Balance

Matsui Natsuki was led into a high-class elevator apartment building in the central district by Miyazaki Ryui. After she entered the house, her eyes immediately lit up.

The outstanding and tasteful decoration style resembled the homes of the handsome girls in Japanese youth idol dramas.

Matsui Natsuki couldn’t help but blurt out, “It’s awesome.”

Miyazaki Ryui carried a suitcase and walked inward to the door of the second bedroom before putting the things down and said, “This is your room.”

Matsui Natsuki nodded with a smile on her face and said, “Understood.”

“You put your things down and then we’ll go shopping for clothes within the department store.” Miyazaki Ryui calmly said.

“Will it be too expensive?” Although Matsui Natsuki had never bought designer clothes, he had the common sense to know what was meant by expensive. His own consumption level was still far from that level.

“I’ll give it to you.” Without the slightest hesitation, Miyazaki Ryuui said firmly.

“I am already giving you trouble by staying at your place. It’s not good for you to give me something again and treat me to dinner, right?” Matsui Natsuki was not tongue-tied.

Even if there had been a romantic relationship between himself and him, it was a thing of the past. It was still high school days, ten or so years ago.

“You don’t want to think too much about it. Think of it as a meet-and-greet gift from me to you.” Miyazaki Ryui said bluntly.

“If I accept such an expensive gift from you, what will I take in return in the future?” Matsui Natsuki drooped his head and looked at him and said.

“If you don’t mind, you can clean this place for me.” Miyazaki Ryui thought of this one thing above all else in order to make the other party accept the gift he had given him with peace of mind.

The reason why he insisted on it was because the matter of his own romantic black history always made people uncomfortable even after ten or so years had passed. Realistically, he was really quite a son of a bitch back then.

Even if he was young, he couldn’t do that. He made up to her a little bit above the material, most of all to make his conscience feel good. In this way, everyone will not owe each other.

He would not owe her anything in his own life. On the contrary, if Matsui Natsuki repeatedly insisted on not accepting his good intentions, it would be difficult to erase that one thing, and it would be awkward to get along.

Matsui Natsuki expressed an agreement. Even if he didn’t say so, she would take the initiative to take on the job of cleaning and cooking and buying food. Her starting point was also to seek an inner balance.

One would not be considered living here for nothing. As for the matter of buying clothes, her initial reason for finally agreeing to it after much consideration still lay in the words that Miyazaki Ryui had said in the car, that this was Tokyo, not Aomori.

Since she had decided to live and work in Tokyo for a long time, she would need to have a set of decent clothes for going out, for interviews, or for important events or parties.

I owe it to Miyazaki Ryui. After she found a job and settled down, she would give him the money to buy clothes.

She had a lot of money to spend. Renting an apartment in Tokyo alone was a huge amount of money. On top of that, there were some basic necessities to buy and stuff.

“It’s a waste of money for you to live alone in such a nice, big place with an empty bedroom.” Matsui Natsuki walked inside the second bedroom, packing up her own things while saying with feeling.

“Why don’t we share a room?” Miyazaki Ryui said casually.

“Can’t afford to rent.” Matsui Natsuki didn’t even ask about the price and knew that she simply couldn’t afford this one rent. As she stood there at the window, she was still able to see one of the landmarks of Chuo City, the Nihonbashi Bridge.

Miyazaki Ryui didn’t say any more. It had never been his intention to engage in a rent-sharing with her. The only reason he was renting here himself was for the convenience of going to Hard Gold Denshi.

“Have you thought about buying a house yet?” Matsui Natsuki felt that spending a large amount of money to rent a place like this was just too uneconomical. Instead of wasting this money, it would be better to take out a loan to buy a house.

Miyazaki Ryui leaned his back against the side of the doorframe, not feeling that she was nagging, but rather feeling that there was some popularity inside this one house. Before this, the first thing one felt when coming home was always cold and empty.

After a person had been around for a long time, they would either get into the habit of it, or they would think about changing it. He fell into the latter category. Without being able to change, any overtime within the company would make him feel more interesting than being alone inside his home.

“Thought about it, but the problem …… right now is that I am working in Tokyo yes. When I joined the workforce shortly after graduating from university, I was living alone in Take-no-Tsuka, Adachi Ward.

A single apartment, a dozen square meters. Actually, it was nothing, but the main thing was that the street next to the place where I lived was a street of bars run by Indonesian women, which was also called Little Manila.

The people who patronize these small bars are basically middle-aged and old men from the lower and middle classes of society. Apart from drinking, they mainly want to seek some spiritual comfort there.

When they get drunk, they naturally have to do something drastic. Cursing society, cursing the government, cursing this, cursing that, never less.

You live here, the security is very good, you won’t encounter people who are crazy about alcohol. Even if you do, you only need to shout, and there will be police patrols, security guards, etc. to come and help you.

Later, I was sent to Seoul, Korea, even though I don’t live there anymore. Then, I was sent to San Francisco, USA. Who knows where else I will be sent in the future?

Now Roppongi in Minato-ku is building the headquarters of the Hard Gold Group. It’s not guaranteed that I’ll be working there again in the future.” Miyazaki Ryui said slowly.

“It seems that you’ve suffered a lot as well.” Matsui Natsuki said after hearing him say that.

“Suffering, I’m not afraid, but I’m afraid that I can’t suffer even if I want to.” Miyazaki Ryuui couldn’t help but think back to his own job search in 1997 after the securities company he worked for went bankrupt because of the Asian financial turmoil.

At that time, his confidence was gradually destroyed by rejection. It was not that he didn’t want to work, but there was no work for him.

He encouraged himself over and over again, but it was of no use at all. Even if he told himself that the founder of KFC had been rejected a thousand times in order to realize his entrepreneurial project, he could not revitalize his heart.

Therefore, those who have been rejected a few times and then turn red in the face, fall flat on their face, and start to escape from reality, can’t be dismissed at once. Of course, no one can help such a person, only by themselves can come out.

Just as the hero of “Pianist on the Sea”, he has never taken that step, and would rather be blown up with the ship than get off the ship is the same.