Chapter 271: The Couple of Seven Lives

When Masayoshi Kishimoto returned home late, as soon as he got home and walked to the living room, he saw Rie Sakai sitting on top of the single sofa on the left side of the living room, reading a book. Not far from her feet, Little A and Little B had fallen asleep on the floor.

Whenever Masayoshi Kishimoto saw her like this, he knew that she was waiting for him to come back to say something, after all, it had become a routine in the family.

Masayoshi Kishimoto walked over and sat down on the long sofa in the center, “Speak up! I can only sleep when you’ve finished.”

Sakai Rie closed the book in her hand and said with a guffaw, “You are getting more and more self-conscious!”

“You and I must be a seventh-century grudge couple.” Masayoshi Kishimoto said calmly as he leaned his back against the back of his chair.

“What do you mean?” Sakai Rie asked without understanding.

“The seventh love affair, also called the seventh couple, is one of the most widely circulated folk love legends in China, the reason why this legend is widely circulated, from one side reflects the five thousand years of people’s yearning and longing for free love and independent marriage, and a kind of tragic resistance to the words of matchmakers and parents’ orders.

This longing and yearning were ultimately disillusioned during the feudal period, and time and again the revolt failed.” Masayoshi Kishimoto made an explanation saying.

“According to what you have to say, are we considered the seventh life, or the eighth? After all, in this life we are also bound together by a piece of paper with an oath set by both of our fathers.

If this is the seventh life, then it shows that in your heart you didn’t love me at all, and that you were completely forced to do so. I am not your true love at all. And who is your true love?

If this is the eighth life, can we finally be free to love each other? But what is that paper oath?” Rie Sakai looked sideways at him, getting to the bottom of it.

“It’s so late, so don’t raise your voice. There’s something to talk about. After we’ve finished talking, we can all go to sleep.” Kishimoto Masayoshi’s words to the edge of his mouth to retaliate is swallowed back again.

It suddenly occurred to him that once he theorized with her, it was quite possible that it would be endless. Instead of wasting time on meaningless things, it would be better to lie down on the big bed early so that he could sleep.

“My mom personally made a phone call tonight, and she was crying bitterly inside the phone. The folkloric inn that was passed down to her from her ancestors can’t be saved.

On top of that, my dad was laid off from the bank. He’s been looking for a job in his hometown with no luck.” Sakai Rie bit her lower lip hard and had a word.

Masayoshi Kishimoto had long heard Sakai Mirei mention it to himself. He had been waiting for her to open up to himself. The day had gone by and he hadn’t seen Sakai Rie speak towards himself. He would have already forgotten about it tonight if he hadn’t heard the other party say it out of the blue.

“What do you mean?” Masayoshi Kishimoto asked knowingly.

“If you’re willing to help them, then do so. If you really don’t want to, then just pretend that I didn’t say anything.” Rie Sakai’s expression was grave as she said.

“Helping your parents, it’s not impossible. However, I have a small ground condition.” Kishimoto Masayoshi’s right index finger was erected and said.

“Taking advantage of someone’s danger, nasty.” Sakai Rie’s first reaction was to think of him wanting to do that with herself, and she blurted out without holding back for a moment.

“I told you a long time ago, the one thing I’ve ever done in my life that didn’t count the cost or reward was to you. I am an investor, rightfully need to consider the return on investment as a core issue.

To only invest without expecting a return would be doing a good deed. Since you took the initiative to talk to me tonight about this one thing that involves investment, shouldn’t we follow the rules of the game?

Even if you get a loan from the bank, you still have to take out collateral. Even if you use a credit card, you are still pledging your personal credit to the bank.

Who would lend you a lot of money under normal circumstances when you want to borrow a lot of money with just a few empty words? The only way to borrow from others is under abnormal circumstances.

Young and beautiful women are money in themselves, and it is perfectly possible to use yourself as collateral. As for young men, various organs of the body are collateral.” Masayoshi Kishimoto held back from laughing.

Sakai Rie, no matter how little social experience she had, knew that what he said was the big truth. If she really wanted to engage in rebuttal one or two herself, even she would feel that it paled in comparison and was just unreasonable nonsense.

“According to you, do you want me as collateral?” Rie Sakai huffed and spoke bluntly.

“If you’re talking to me with emotions mixed in, we really don’t have anything to talk about. Or, we can find time to talk when you’ve figured it out. I’m not in a hurry at all, but I’m afraid that your parents’ side can’t wait.” Masayoshi Kishimoto said nonchalantly.

“So what do you say to help my parents?” Rie Sakai said as she tried to calm her mind.

“Listening to you finish talking about your parents’ actual financial situation, even though the details weren’t explicitly stated, I’m guessing that your Kochi Prefecture house has also been mortgaged to the local bank a long time ago.

The amount of money that your father had been trapped in when he was speculating in the stock market, instead of being unlocked, has become less and less. The family savings must also have been depleted long ago.

It is not guaranteed that there are still some external debts among family and friends. All things considered, your family is not far from bankruptcy in nine cases out of ten.” Masayoshi Kishimoto did not intend to speak in a mean manner, but rather was objectively analyzing.

“Wouldn’t you be happy if our family went bankrupt? Even if you’re not happy with all the things I did to you in the past, it’s not like my parents and them messed with you.” Sakai Rie couldn’t help but say as her eyes reddened and tears dotted her eyes.

“Just seriously analyzing your family for a bit made you unable to stand it. Can you solve the problem by crying? If you can, just cry to your heart’s content!” It was the first time Masayoshi Kishimoto had seen her show weakness and helplessness like this.

“Then what do you think we should do?” Sakai Rie raised her hand and wiped the tears that were about to roll down from within her eyes and said.

“Once your family goes bankrupt, not only will your parents be directly affected, but the three of you will also be negatively affected.

In the future, whether you guys are taking out loans to buy a house or a car, or to run a credit card, the pass rate will be much lower than normal.

On top of that, if your family still owes money to the local bank that you haven’t paid off, don’t think that after the bankruptcy, you’ll be completely fine.

This doesn’t rule out the bank secretly selling the relevant claims at a discount to loan sharks to collect. Loan sharks do not only intimidate and violently collect money, but they also use all kinds of other dirty tricks.

They’ll even come to Tokyo from their hometowns to find you and Mei-Ling. For no other reason than to get you to pay them back. It’s not impossible that your sisters are pretty enough to be sold or forced to work in a custom store.

Japan is such a credit system with joint and several liability. Outside of the credit system, there is a dark economic side.” Masayoshi Kishimoto said without haste.