Chapter 822: Choosing Sides

At nine o’clock on Monday morning, the high-level conference room at the Hard Gold Group’s headquarters in Roppongi, Minato-ku, was a full house. The executives had already taken their respective seats and were just waiting for the meeting.

Even Katsudaira Yamaguchi, the president of Hard Gold Construction, who was far away from Osaka, had flown back to Tokyo; after all, he had received a call from Kazuya Takahashi himself, who had received a call from Kazuya Takahashi himself, saying that there was an extremely important internal matter that needed to be announced at the regular meeting of the senior management on Monday, and that he would not accept any kind of leave of absence.

At this time, the door of the high-level conference room opened, Sakai Rie holding Kishimoto Naoki with both hands came in unhurriedly.

She was personally led by the president’s secretary, Mirai Yamada, towards the president’s seat at the long, solid wood table.

When Kobayashi Kiyoshi and the others saw this completely unexpected situation, they were immediately confused. For a moment, they were confused as to what exactly was going on.

Sakai Rie held her son in her arms as she sat on top of the president’s throne and said, “Everyone must be wondering! Why am I here holding Naoki Kishimoto, the son of Masayoshi Kishimoto and myself?

Your chairman, Masayoshi Kishimoto, is in a coma and in the hospital. As for which hospital he is in, I cannot tell you for the moment.

I am now exercising the authority of the Chairman and the largest shareholder of the Hard Gold Group on behalf of his son, Naoki Kishimoto. With immediate effect, I appoint Kazuya Takahashi, the Minister of Legal Affairs, as the executive of the Hard Gold Group and the Minister of Legal Affairs ……”

“Wait, how is it that I didn’t know a single thing beforehand about the Chairman being in a coma and lying inside the hospital?” Iwasaki Maki didn’t wait for her to finish her sentence before interrupting with some rudeness.

Sakai Rie became furious when she looked at her. In the moment, she herself was getting more and more fired up by her questioning her like that. She went back and forth to suppress the nameless fire in her heart, after all, she still had to focus on the big picture. One should never be able to be emotional.

“This one thing happened so suddenly that even I was completely unprepared. Naoki Kishimoto, as the son of Masayoshi Kishimoto, is rightfully entitled to inherit everything from his father.

Until his father fully awakens, he was given by Japanese law to be able to temporarily take over the position of the Hard Gold Group’s chairman and largest shareholder.

Since he is underage, then I, the one who is the birth mother, have taken it upon myself to replace him.” Rie Sakai said based on the inheritance rights among the current Japanese laws.

“Just in these last few days, rumors have been circulating that the chairman is in the hospital. All this time, I didn’t believe it. Today, it seems that it should be true.” Miyazaki Ryui blurted out.

“Even if this one thing is true, it’s still necessary to let some of us who are executives of the Hard Gold Group go to the hospital to personally visit the chairman who is in a coma.

If I’m not allowed to confirm this matter with my own eyes, it’s really hard for me to be convinced.” Iwasaki Maki was the first to state his attitude.

“Whether or not the Chairman has lost the ability to exercise his authority is something I need to confirm with my own eyes. There’s no way we can listen to your one-sided statement!” Hard Gold Media’s Shingo Oda expressed his agreement with Maki Iwasaki, saying.

“This matter is absolutely true. I can vouch for it with my own personality. If the chairman was well, he would definitely have appeared at the regular Monday meeting of the Hard Gold Group’s top management today.” Takahashi Kazuya took the initiative to explain.

“What’s wrong with the chairman letting us meet? Is it hard to believe that any of us will take advantage of the opportunity to plot against him? Or who has done something unspeakable?”

Iwasaki Maki wasn’t entirely targeting Sakai Rie, but was indeed worried about Kishimoto Masayoshi’s safety. How did this good person fall into a coma all of a sudden? She thought left and right, not without both feeling that there was something fishy about it Dao.

“You mean to say that I murdered Masayoshi Kishimoto. How could I possibly harm him? He’s my husband.” Sakai Rie suddenly became emotional. She was annoyed at Iwasaki Maki’s insinuations and said.

When she raised her voice, she directly made Naoki Kishimoto, who was cradled in her arms, cry. Thus, she hurriedly lowered her head again in a soft voice and as if no one else was there to coax her child not to cry.

“Bullying orphans and widows, what kind of skill is that?” Miyazaki Ryui said, targeting Iwasaki Maki.

“President Miyazaki, please watch your wording. What do you mean by orphans and widows? Is the president dead? According to current intelligence, he is only in a coma.” Iwasaki Maki coldly said.

“I don’t care what you guys think, I absolutely believe the Chairman’s wife’s words. I also absolutely support and embrace such a decision she has made.”

Miyazaki Ryui immediately made his personal attitude in favor of Sakai Rie and Kishimoto Naoki clear. The reason why he had made such a decision so quickly was that, for one, he was originally the first vassal of the Kishimoto family, and should support and embrace orthodoxy as a matter of course.

The second reason was that his wife and Rie Sakai also had a good personal relationship. Selfishly, it would be even more advantageous for him to side with Sakai Rie and Kishimoto Naoki.

Takahashi Kazuya saw that he was the first to break the thin windowpaper of choosing sides, so he pushed forward and asked the various executives present to state their personal attitudes on the spot, “Until the chairman has fully awakened, President Miyazaki’s attitude and mine are the same, and also clear. We all support and embrace all decisions made by the president’s wife.”

As soon as the words fell, some people in the conference room began to exchange words, while others began to fall silent. Everyone who was able to sit here was nonetheless not a fool, and all of them were overqualified.

They were now seeing that Takahashi Kazuya and Miyazaki Ryui were the ones who had already openly stated their support for Sakai Rie and Kishimoto Naoki. As for Iwasaki Maki, he has already stood against them.

Some people cast their eyes toward the personnel department head Takayuki Nanno, after all, the other party as one of the hard gold executives among the core figures, naturally has a significant position.

Takayuki Nanno did not move, his head calculating, even if he supports and supports Sakai Rie and Kishimoto Naoki, will fall behind Takahashi Kazuya.

In the end, the number two person in the Hard Gold Group would ultimately be Takahashi Kazuya, not him, Nanno Takayuki. All along, although he did not want to replace Masayoshi Kishimoto as chairman, he was determined to win the number two position in the Hard Gold Group.

If he and Iwasaki Maki were on the same side, what would that be called? He did not welcome her joining the Hard Gold Group and taking up the position of Finance Director.

“With a hoot, the door to the Hard Gold Group’s high-level conference room was suddenly opened. Fujie Nao held a baby in both hands, and under the leadership of Inoue Kazuhiko, she walked in boldly.