Chapter 105 – Episode 14. Mimata Chieri
Chieri Mimatachi remembers her childhood as tasteless. Mimatachieri’s parents were not good parents and often neglected her young Mimatachieri, if not to the point of abuse. As a child, all Chieri Mimata ate every day was the cheapest bread and jam available at her supermarket.
When she entered elementary school, she ate lunch for the first time. Chieri Mimata, who only ate white bread every day, did not even know how to use chopsticks. However, she was quick-witted and had good sense of her hands, so Chieri Mimatachi learned how to use her chopsticks that day without anyone catching her.
What was more surprising than using chopsticks was the taste of her lunch. Chieri Mimatachi, who had only known bread and jam, discovered that there was such a taste in the world. So I enjoyed going to school every day. Because she can eat new food every time.
A few days into her school, Mimatachi Eri realized that the things she had taken for granted were not. She realized that it was strange for most young children to grow up under the care of their parents and to eat bread every day. But she was still young and she had no power to change the situation.
Chieri Mimata’s life changed when she was in her third year of middle school. She almost had a serious accident. Chieri Mimata ran into her crosswalk at an incredible speed, far beyond what any car can achieve on a normal road. But Chieri Mimatachi calmly jumped and avoided her car.
“Are you okay? “Aren’t you scared?”
The speeding car had already disappeared somewhere else, and the driver of the car running behind it got out of the car and asked how Mimata Chieri was doing.
“Yes, I’m fine because I’m not hurt.”
The driver, who was speechless for a moment as he saw Chieri Mimata talking as if nothing had happened, looked at Chieri Mimata for a moment and gave her his business card. She saw his business card after seeing the luxury vehicle that had disappeared, leaving a note telling her to contact him if necessary.
Her business card read Taira Bio Planning Secretary General Takayuki Fumimoto (文本考行), and her contact information was written below it.
“Tyra…”
Mimata Chieri knew the name Taira well. She said the jam she had been eating since her childhood was made by Tyra Foods. In addition to that, she was producing various products, working as a telecommunications company, and there were many people around her named Tyra. Chie Mimata unknowingly kept her business card given to her by a man who only knew her face and name.
Originally, she just kept it to herself and had no intention of contacting him. But everything changed for her because of Chieri Mimatachi’s parents.
In the first place, there was no way that these people who neglected their children bordering on abuse were normal people. The two, who were working in the entertainment industry without any other jobs, suddenly ran into a lot of debt. Of course, they had no ability to repay the debt.
So when Mimatachieri’s parents saw Mimatachieri returning home, they came up with her terrible idea. She had decided to sell Mimatachi Eri to the Yakuza. She said that she was finally paying for feeding and putting her to sleep, and she contacted the Yakuza without the slightest sense of guilt.
Luckily for her, as I said before, Chieri Mimata had a good sense of humor. Chieri Mimata pretended not to notice anything, but then she stole her parents’ cell phone and called the contacts on her business card before the Yakuza stormed into her house.
Because there wasn’t much time, Mimata Chieri didn’t give much explanation. She just said one word: help me. Her answer wasn’t long either. I get it. One word, that was all.
Was Mimata Chieri a little late? Less than five minutes after she made the call, two Yakuza gangsters attacked. The Yakuza frowned when she saw Mimatachieri, who was still in middle school, but after a while she saw Mimatachieri’s appearance and nodded her head. The two of them said to each other that even though they were young, they would probably sell it at that level.
“Lol… The debt… ?”
“I’ll pretend it never happened. “What a piece of trash.”
Even the Yakuza frowned when they saw the parents gleefully enjoying their daughter being sold. But Mimata Chieri was unconcerned. She had no expectations in the first place, so she had no reason to feel betrayed. She should have just contacted me earlier… She could only think.
It didn’t take long for her to be dragged down from her shabby apartment and taken to the Yakuza’s car. Three men were standing in front of the Yakuza’s black car. It was Takayuki Fumimoto and two people who appeared to be his subordinates. It was Takayuki Fumimoto, who was later than the Yakuza, but still not completely late. He was a yakuza who at first threatened and asked who he was, but when Takayuki Fumimoto revealed his identity, he was a yakuza who turned his tail.
Takayuki Fumimoto, who had a brief conversation with the Yakuza, received Chieri Mimata. The yakuza huffed and returned to the house where Chieri Mimata’s parents lived, and Chieri Mimata bowed her head to Takayuki Fumimoto.
“Thank you.”
“What are you going to do now?”
“I have to go back home…”
“I can’t go back. “If those Yakuza return to your home, your parents and your home will not be okay.”
“Ah…”
Seeing Chieri Mimata no longer opening her mouth, Takayuki Fumimoto opened her mouth.
“Will you follow me? “Your life is not good now, but this life is not good either.”
“But there will be a place to sleep, right?”
“There is.”
“Then I’ll follow you.”
Mimata Chieri’s thoughts were simple. Even if what Takayuki Fumimoto said was true, if I didn’t follow Takayuki Fumimoto, I had to worry about where I would sleep today. Even if we had a bad life together, if I couldn’t find a place to sleep in my current life, it was a better choice to choose a life following Takayuki Fumimoto, where I could at least sleep.
Chieri Mimata then transferred to another school in Tokyo. Although it looks like an ordinary boarding school, it was actually a school that raised assassins and agents to work for the Tyra group. There, Mimatachieri received her entire new education.
How to deal with people, how to communicate, how not to reveal one’s identity, people’s weaknesses, marksmanship, dagger fighting skills, etc… She learned countless things. She studied as the school told her to, so she learned foreign languages and acquired several qualifications.
She even underwent body modification procedures, which are incredibly expensive procedures for a private individual to do. She underwent a procedure that made her muscle fibers stronger and more resilient and increased her vision, rather than a mechanical procedure that could cause her to go through a metal detector. She said that the side effect was that her hair turned orange, but this was enough that she would not be suspected of dyeing it.
After graduating from school, she worked at the Tyra Endowment Foundation, which handled the Tyra Group’s slush funds, and mainly handled missions from above. She kills if she can, gets information if she wants to, and destroys facilities. Chieri Mimata was an excellent agent.
As time passed, Mimatachieri was able to speak with confidence. This life was much better than her life before she followed Takayuki Fumimoto. Since she was at boarding school, she no longer eats bread and her bed is cleaner than her original home.
And if she had lived as she is now, would she have been able to join Taira Group, the best group in Japan? Mimatachieri said she couldn’t do it herself. Even though she was brilliant in her own right, she needed some support from her family to join such a top group.
“Starting next week, go to work at the Human Resources Development Center.”
“Is there a target there?”
One day she was called by Takayuki Fumimoto and gave her a new mission. Originally, the main mission at the Tyra Endowment Foundation was to understand the flow of slush funds of the president’s children, and other than that, it was to solve single missions that came up from time to time.
“In six months, the chairman’s grandson will join the company.”
“If it’s your grandson… Are you Taira Kitsumasa? Or are you Akio Taira?”
Currently, the only grandchildren of an age suitable for attending the Human Resources Development Center are Taira Kitsumasa and Taira Akio. Although the Human Resources Development Center was an important place with a high ranking within the group, it was essentially the front yard of Taira Saburo, Taira Danzo’s third son. This is where Saburo Taira’s wife, Yukiko Taira, is the director.
It was a place that Kitsumasa and Akio, who were still in their 20s, could join. So much so that she had a brief career. When she reached her 30s, she was to move to a subsidiary where she would put down roots. Or maybe she is not part of the Tyra group and has her own business.
“It’s Taira Ryuta.”
“This is my first time hearing it.”
“He is Saburo-sama’s illegitimate son. I heard that the chairman has already appointed me as a talent development center. “You go to the Human Resources Development Center first and report all of Taira Ryuta’s actions, and protect him if anything is dangerous.”
“All right.”
Mimatachieri nodded his head. To Chieri Mimata, Ryuta Taira was just an entity that could be summed up in those two words: surveillance and protection.
I guess so… I don’t know when, but Taira Ryuta suddenly became a special person to me. Is it because he became Mae’s lunch buddy, having lunch with him? Or is it because he is always hiding and watching his every move? I didn’t know why. All I know is that the existence of Tyra Ryuta has entered deeply into me, like water seeping into a sponge.
So he may have been blocking Taira Ryuta’s front without even knowing it. No matter how much the mission of protection came, he had no intention of sacrificing himself.
I was scared of dying. I’m afraid that I’ll never see Ryuta Taira again, or that we’ll never be able to have lunch together again. Mimata Chieri lost her mind like that.
“…”
When I tried to open my eyes, they felt stiff. I felt a sensation. Chieri Mimata checked the condition of his body one by one with his eyes closed. His fingers moved and so did his toes. It took strength to strain every muscle in her body. Looking at the condition of her muscles, it seemed like it had been about a day or two. If he had been down for a long time, her muscles would not have had any strength.
Mimata Chieri forced her watery eyes to open. She saw a white ceiling. There was nothing wrong with my eyes. She was the ceiling of Tyra General Hospital, where she had been in care several times when she was in high school.
“Sir, is this your first time having dinner together?”
A voice sounded in Mimata Chieri’s ear. When she turned her head, Ryuta Taira was standing there smiling, holding the porridge she had packed.
