
HISAO POV
A month since my last conversation with Kimiko two months ago, it seems that she has not been able to decide. My mother still asks me, persuades me and what makes me most angry is that her family sent people to harass Setsuko.
Takeru beat up the ba*ngsat-bangs*at properly and made sure none of them dared to touch Setsuko again.
I don't think I need to wait anymore to talk to Dad. This has been very disturbing to me, this added long left this will be so unfinished.
"You're giving me the heart to work together but you're sending a delinquent to Setsuko!? He kindly thinks of you, but you deliberately cause trouble." I finally spoke on Kimiko's phone the next day after receiving the full report and all the videos from Takeru.
"Hisao, I can't fight my family. They said your mother agreed to this match. My family takes care of it. I don't have any objections like I said. If you don't agree talk to your parents to get it done!" Now it seems that he also has no courage.
"You don't want to live with your own lover?"
"No, my family didn't approve, what else I could do but obey them. I was just being logical . I told you you were free to visit your lover anyway. I'm being fair to you... But you're the one who insisted on not cooperating."
"I really don't understand you guys."
"I also don't understand why you can't take it. You're crazy about that geisha! What can he give you besides his body. You're the illogical one. Why you should reject it. What I offer makes sense. We just have to be all right and be friends." It seems that talking about wanting to build a family with the one you love just can't be understood. I think he's a psych*opath.
"Well, I can't talk much now either. We take each other's paths that clearly we'll never get married." I gave up talking to him. This idea may be too naive for him to accept.
I cut off the conversation. There's no point in talking to that girl. They want the hard way, I'll give them trouble.
"Yukio, don't enter the Yamasaki family into the agreement. They refuse to cooperate, instead sending people to harass Setsuko last night. Next weekend I'm going to Kyoto to meet Dad in person.
"I understand Sister Hisao, but I don't really want to work with Yamasaki either."
"Ohh yeah? Wh why? Tell me what you know about them..." It seems that something is wrong with the family so they are very forcing this marriage. And I want to know what it is.
"Alright, listen to this...." Yukio turned out to tell me an important piece of information.
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Of course Kimiko can't convince her family, nor do I want to give them any contracts.
"We are signing a major contract with the government for the Sakura Matsuri next year. All deals are almost final.... This contract amount is even enough to guarantee our annual fee..." Yukio started the conversation now while I was having lunch with Dad.
I'll start with Dad's approval. Yamasaki was actually close to Mom. This match is because of both of our mothers
"Love Hisao introduced her, Setsuko-san. He was close to this government person because he often cooperated. This year it seems we can first cooperate with the government people."
"Setsuko-san, that famous geiko? A lover? Since when do you get to ochaya?" Dad was immediately astonished.
"Actually Grandpa introduced her and paid her specifically to be my official companion. Because of that champagne tower case."
"Ohh. Hm..." She seems to only think of Setsuko as another woman who had passed by in my previous life. "Good, your grandfather likes to go there, I think they're returning the favor to your Grandpa too?"
"As for Setsuko-san, I want to take her home to get acquainted with Father and Mother." My father was silent with my words. Kimiko's problem must have been said by Mother.
"Hisao, your mother asked you to get acquainted with Kimiko Yamasaki instead, they are a good family, Kimiko is also very beautiful. Setsuko-san may be beautiful, famous, but compared to the Yamasaki family she is nothing. Make her your lover, but for the wedding I think there's a lot to consider. Your sister already has ties to the Kimura family is a pity. I thought Kimiko-san was very nice." I knew from the beginning it wasn't going to be easy.
"Dad, from the first moment I knew Kimiko-san I didn't like being targeted."
"You mean targeted?"
"It's been coming to me for various reasons since our first meeting a year ago, renting a house near me. Offering him no matter how many lovers I have, as long as we act everything is fine in front of our family."
"He said that?" Now it was dumbfounded after knowing what the girl had to offer.
"Was it not a delay, do I have to live with a person who thinks of family as a business, after all he has his own lover, so we have our own lovers a separate family? Maybe our son could be switched, maybe he decided it was better to have a seed from his lover. I can decide to have a child with my lover, too." Now I'm silent to see me. Didn't he learn from my previous match.
"That Setsuko-san, I got some photos. This one ain't." It turns out that they were there to get photos of Setsuko being kissed and held as they wished. Takeru had already broken the teeth of the two people who kissed and embraced it.
"Ohh it turns out this photo came to you and Mom to impale it. I expected it. Yamasaki's family sends these thugs to the ochaya where he works to humiliate him. My men broke their teeth. Here's the confession video... See for yourself whether the person there is the same as the photo in your hand Dad."
I gave a video of the confession from the person who bullied Setsuko to who told her to, plus who exactly told them. Mrs Yamasaki is behind all this.
"You're sure she already has a boyfriend?" Dad's asking for proof now. I gave you all the photos that the investigator handed me that I hired. He saw that and breathed. It seems that I have now managed to shake it up a bit. After all he was a man as well, would he want to force me his oldest son into marriage with such a snake woman.
"And this is what you already know? Their hotel chain run by one of their children in Kyoto later was not so good. They've never done a hotel restoration in a long time. While many better and newer ones have sprung up, treatments are less noticed and many get shoddy reviews. I had intended to attract them as partners for the big project cooperation that we received. But with most of the problems in their review I decided not to cooperate with them. I don't think that working with them will produce anything Dad will add to our burden. I know Mom has a long family relationship with Yamasaki, but a surname is not enough as a guarantee if her own heirs do not keep their good names. That's what Dad taught us."
Yukio is trying to help me now.
"Dad can't decide this now about Setsuko-san. But I will not accept any matchmaking from Yamasaki. We'll settle it for a while. I need to talk to your grandfather later..."
I'm relieved now, ..at least I managed to hold off Mrs Yamasaki to influence my father as well. Mom may still support him but if Dad and Grandpa don't agree to it, she knows it's useless.