Chapter 020 Old Home

Sakai Rie cried with pearly blossoms as she questioned, “Where were you wrong?”

“If you say I was wrong there, I was wrong there.” Masayoshi Kishimoto blurted out.

“You’re not even the slightest bit sincere in admitting your mistake.” Sakai Rie still cried like a little girl and said.

Masayoshi Kishimoto knew that this was considered a breakdown in the bargaining between the two sides. Who made it so that he didn’t have the rich practical experience in coaxing girls? On second thought, if he really had a wealth of practical experience in coaxing girls, wouldn’t that be not far from being a scum?

“You’re on winter break (RB winter break is usually from December 24th to January 8th, which is the Christmas to New Year’s holiday), aren’t you going to go back to your hometown in Kochi Prefecture in Shikoku to see your family?” Masayoshi Kishimoto said in an attempt to change the subject.

“Listening to you, you sound as if you are a native Tokyoite. Don’t forget that you’re also a country bumpkin from Shikoku.” Sakai Rie said as she habitually barreled with him.

Naturally, Masayoshi Kishimoto knew very well that in the eyes of a native Tokyoite, Shikoku, this one place, was the remote countryside. The old home of the original owner of this body of his was in Shikoku’s Kochi Prefecture.

He himself was born in Kochi Prefecture, Shikoku. Later, after his cheap father had left his hometown and made a name for himself in Tokyo, he brought himself to Tokyo from his hometown.

Before Shikoku’s Kochi Prefecture was abolished, it was known as the Tosa Clan. There were two famous figures in history, one was Sakamoto Ryoma and the other was Iwasaki Yataro. This sudden rebirth made himself and Sakamoto Ryoma, Iwasaki Yataro were becoming fellow countrymen.

“Why don’t you say anything? Is it because I poked your pain?” Sakai Rie suddenly got in a good mood and stopped crying. She wiped the tears on her face with the palm of her hand and said.

“Birth is not important, but what is important is that a person has to have a smart head. Iwasaki Yataro was nothing more than an underground ronin family’s origin, which is the same as the bottom class commoners at that time.

However, he had a smart head, thus later founding the Mitsubishi Group and becoming RB’s number one plutocrat.” Masayoshi Kishimoto spoke eloquently.

“According to you, you want to become the second Yataro Iwasaki? Do you have the brains of others? Do you have the life of others?” Rie Sakai said aggressively.

“There may not necessarily not be the existence of this one possibility you speak of.” Masayoshi Kishimoto couldn’t help but say with a mysterious smile appearing on his face.

Sakai Rie shook her head straight, and inwardly began to chide herself for bothering with a severely delusional person. Isn’t this and not reducing herself to the same IQ level as the other party?

Suddenly, the landline phone in Kishimoto’s living room rang. Sakai Rie turned around and left his bedroom, taking three steps towards the landline phone.

She picked up the receiver in her right hand and placed it next to her right ear and said, “This is Rie Sakai.”

“Hello, I’m looking for Masayoshi Kishimoto.” Kyoko Fukada was calmly saying on the other end of the phone.

Sakai Rie froze for a moment, surprised that it wasn’t a call for her. She put the microphone down, turned around and reappeared in the doorway of Masayoshi Kishimoto’s bedroom, and said in a stiff tone, “Phone call, for you.”

Kishimoto Masayoshi uncovered the quilt wrapped around his body, nimbly moved his body out of bed, and walked out of the bedroom with small, broken steps.

He stopped at the landline phone and picked up the microphone in his left hand and placed it next to his left ear and said, “Hello, this is Masayoshi Kishimoto.”

“This is Kyoko Fukada. It’s Christmas and I wish you a Merry Christmas.” Kyoko Fukada said with joy inside her voice.

“I also wish you a Merry Christmas and a prosperous acting career.” Masayoshi Kishimoto really didn’t expect the other party to call him over and said.

Fukada Kyouko blurted out a ‘thank you’. When she first made the call, it was to send her Christmas wishes and to check if the landline call the other party had given her yesterday on Christmas Eve was working.

When the two of them talked, they inevitably talked about the coincidental meeting for coffee yesterday, as well as each other’s hobbies and interests.

At this time, Sakai Rie didn’t go to do her own thing, but hid in the shadows to conduct an eavesdropping. In her heart, she muttered, “Who is this girl named Fukada Kyoko?

As far as she could remember, Masayoshi Kishimoto hadn’t mentioned it to her once. She saw that the two of them were chatting so happily and opportunistically, so it seemed that their relationship was not ordinary?

Kishimoto Masayoshi exited with a “goodbye”, put down the phone, crossed his arms, and jogged towards his bedroom.

In the middle of this, he almost collided with Rie Sakai. He slipped off his slippers and went up to the bed, pulling the covers off and getting in, wrapping them tightly around him again.

Rie Sakai put the matter of the Christmas gift behind her for the moment. Right now, all she could think about was that girl named Kyoko Fukada who had taken the initiative to call Masayoshi Kishimoto.

Her own talent and appearance in front of his eyes, but there is a kind of blindness, she inadvertently remembered Kishimoto Masayoshi said that last night did not do anything to herself.

The most important thing for a woman is not talent and looks, but tenderness. His words could not be more clear, that is, he was stating that he was not interested in himself, and that he disliked himself for not being gentle.

The more Sakai Rie thought about it, the more angry she became, and with an old imbalance in her heart, she reentered his bedroom and questioned, “What does that girl who called you just now do?”

“Why are you asking so much?” Masayoshi Kishimoto felt that she was poking her nose in too broadly and said bluntly.

“I’m afraid you’ll be tricked by a woman with evil intentions. With your mediocre looks that can’t even be found in a drowning crowd, with neither much talent nor money, a beautiful woman will never look at you.” Sakai Rie crossed her arms in front of her chest and raised her head high, saying.

“I won’t bother you with that. If there’s nothing else, please close the bedroom door for me when you go out, I’m going to sleep.” Masayoshi Kishimoto said calmly.

Sakai Rie was caught in a dilemma. It wasn’t right to be angry herself, and it wasn’t right to not be angry. Getting angry? To be angry with him and that one called Kyoko Fukada, was it a crime?

Not angry? She couldn’t let go of the relationship between him and that girl called Fukada Kyouko, always thinking about what the other person could be better than herself?

The attention of both her eyes fell on the one Christmas present on the bed and she found a step down and ran for the thing.

Rie Sakai bent down and took the Christmas gift in her hands, then made a snorting sound at Masayoshi Kishimoto on the bed. She turned her back and walked straight out, but purposely didn’t close the bedroom door for him.