Chapter 559 – Episode 60. PMC Exam and Tornado
Now that we had confirmed Shiyo Naruse’s abilities, it seemed like we could have her participate in the meeting. Of course, Naruse Shiyo’s current level was high and her gang stats and characteristics were good, but she was not high enough to easily beat her classmates. She actually had a good chance of losing because she didn’t have many skills at the moment and her skill proficiency level was low, so she was limited. Although she had a slightly higher level of shikigami, she was useless because she did not have a shikigami contracted with her.
Hmm… Should Shiyo Naruse leave it to Shimokawabe Airen like Alric? Or should I tell her to continue honing the naginata technique she’s mastering? Or not…
“Teacher?”
“Oh sorry…”
As she continues to stare blankly, Shiyo Naruse looks at her slightly annoyed. I’ll plan on developing Shiyo Naruse later, but first I’ll talk about today’s meeting and before that, I’ll have to reveal my background.
“Are you confident that what you said this morning won’t change in the future?”
“Are you saying you want to invite a teacher? Of course!”
At my words, Naruseshi clasped her hands tightly and made a promise. That figure seemed quite trustworthy, so I decided to trust Shiyo Naruse.
“Actually, my last name is not Yamashiro…”
“Huh?!”
As expected, it was Shiyo Naruse who was surprised when I told him that I was not Ryuta Yamashiro. She would be surprised if I told her that it wasn’t even the name of the teacher she had just known.
“First of all, this way…”
Although it was an empty café, there was still an owner, so I whispered my original name into Shiyo Naruse’s ear.
“Actually, my name is Taira Ryuta.”
“Yes?!”
Naruse is surprised once again. Her face was slightly red, probably because she was whispering.
“I didn’t know there was a person named Ryuta in the Taira family.”
Most of the children of famous families memorized the members of famous families so as not to make mistakes at high-ranking parties or gatherings, so Shiyo Naruse tilted her head when she heard the name Taira Ryuta for the first time.
“In fact…”
Shiyo Naruse was very intrigued when I told her that I was Taira’s illegitimate son and had come to the academy as a teacher on a mission from her grandfather.
“Wow~! I thought things like this only happened in movies! For some reason, I thought he was strong for a teacher, but… “No, that’s where you came from?”
“That’s not right. It’s been less than a year since I found out my last name. In fact, the reason I am strong is that my master is Rinka Fujigasaki.”
“Yesss?!!”
Shiyo Naruse was even more surprised than when I revealed my real name. She was Shiyo Naruse, who had a weak body and liked strong genres such as fighting sports and heavy metal. It was natural that she couldn’t come to her senses when the name of Rinka Fujigasaki, who could be said to be the pinnacle of her strength, was mentioned.
“Um, uhm, are you really Rinka-sama’s disciple?”
“Okay. So she caught the black dragon in her fist.”
“Hey, that’s amazing… !”
When she spoke in the morning, she had dead yandere-like eyes, but this time, she showed a twinkling look.
“For now, let’s skip the teacher’s business. Today, I wanted to meet you for a moment to explain things to you, Naruse, before I have a meeting with my followers and my original forces.”
“So, am I attending the meeting too?”
Shiyo Naruse asked with a slightly nervous expression upon my words. Is this nervousness because I have to attend the meeting, or what if I can’t attend the meeting? I’m not sure if it’s the tension.
“Then. You said you decided to take me with you? Then you should attend the meeting and talk. “I have to introduce myself to the kids as well.”
“Ah! Really? Thank god… !”
Seeing how excited he was, it seemed like he was nervous that he wouldn’t be able to participate in the meeting. When I saw Shiyo Narushi like that, I laughed and got up.
“Then let’s go to the meeting.”
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For the conference room where we were all supposed to meet, we decided to rent an entire floor of a remote shopping center in an alley inside Miya City, where we had previously gone on a date with Risa Minamoto. Security would not be good if we rented only part of the room and other people wandered around, so we decided to rent the entire floor.
The idea of this meeting came from the decision to seek support from Naruse Koyou, the new head of the Naruse family, as a shikigami arts instructor.
In fact, with Rena Sakagami, a former ninja, Fukushi Asada, a former manager from the Self-Defense Force intelligence unit, Shinya Sawayanagi, a VR diver, Ryuto Construction, a person who digests information in the back alleys, and Eve, a dark person, there were enough materials to create an intelligence team. So, I was thinking of having a meeting to learn how to cook well with those ingredients.
So, I had arranged a meeting location in advance and asked Eve to set up various equipment.
When I entered the conference room, the students from St. Francis Girls’ Academy who had arrived in advance were sitting there, and Eve stood there to welcome me.
“Ah, Ryuta! Hello~!”
Eve was wearing suit-like clothes, a black skirt and white shirt, as she was told it was a meeting, and the students were each wearing civilian clothes, as if they were trying not to attract attention while coming here.
“It’s a little late.”
“No. Until the time the meeting was supposed to start… “1 minute and 23 seconds left!”
It’s accurate because it’s an AI Android. I sat Naruse Shiyo down in the seat where it was written, and she opened her mouth.
“Starting today, Naruse has decided to join us, so if there’s something he doesn’t know, let’s teach him well.”
“Yes~!”
After informing everyone that Naruse Shiyo was also joining us, I also sat down in my seat, which was the most honorable seat. It was a long rectangular table with quite a few empty seats, but even the empty seats were all occupied.
“Then let’s start the meeting~!”
Eve sat down on the seat immediately to my left, and as she spoke, a soft buzzing sound was heard, and people participating in the remote meeting via hologram began to appear in the empty seats. What I asked Eve for was this hologram equipment. I thought it would be quite useful during the meeting, so I asked him to prepare it, and he did a good job even in a short period of time.
Starting with Chieri Mimata, my secretary and the president of East Weapon, Azuma Sawayanagi and Shinya Sawayanagi of Seryu Military Company, Ms. Jin Mija of Hatake Investment Company, Dangsohwa of Ryuto Construction and Kirie Kurayamada who will be creating the new PMC. Wow, Asada Fukushi appeared as a hologram.
Han Yu-kyung, Yukiko, and Nagumo Sian, who can be said to be my women and business partners, were unable to attend the meeting. Since this agenda was the creation of an intelligence team in Japan, it had nothing to do with Han Yu-kyung, and the other two are members of the Taira Group, so if information is needed, they can go to the Taira Group. I did not participate in the meeting because I had an information team or my own information team.
When I saw the members like this, my heart automatically grew. Not a single member of the meeting was ordinary. Even the seemingly ordinary Shinya Sawayanagi was a great guy whose specialty was VR diving and bombs, and Asada Fukushi was a former self-defense intelligence officer and former leader of a drug organization, so there was not a single one who was ordinary.
“First of all, please say hello to everyone because you may be seeing them for the first time.”
At my words, the eldest woman, Mrs. Jin Mi-ja, stands up and bows. Since Hatake Investment Company was a company that had ownership of several companies such as Hatake Mining and Danghwa’s Ryuto Construction, she was in frequent contact with Ms. Jin Mi-ja for business purposes, so it was not for a long time.
“Thank you all for all you do for my son. My name is Jin Mi-ja, and I am in charge of Hatake Investment Company.”
“Hatake Investment Company is the parent company of Hatake Mine, which recently discovered a large-scale mithril mine. “You mean the president of that company is your mother?”
After Ms. Jin Mi-ja’s greeting her, Saionji Diana, who was very interested in this type of thing, muttered in surprise. No matter how much she was abandoned by the family, she was the Young Annie of Saionji Bank and was always interested in the economy, so she seemed to know Hatake Investment Company well. What surprised the students other than Saionji Diana was that Mrs. Jin Mi-ja was my mother. Although she was originally young-looking, she was surprised because even after getting eye surgery, she only looked like she was in her mid-thirties.
Next was Chieri Mimata, and of course she was the president of East Weapon, Japan’s largest PMC, and several interested students, as well as Kirie Kurayamada and Fukushi Asada, looked on in amazement.
In the case of Seryu Military Company and Ryuto Construction, they were not famous, so they were skipped over, and when it was Kirie Kurayamada’s turn, everyone started talking. It was natural for the students to be surprised that the burden that had suddenly appeared here. Still, she was the conference hall, so she didn’t have a child who made a big fuss, but if Seizawa Shii was there, it was Ryutachi! There’s Kirikiri ~ ☆ and she would have made a fuss.
The students also stood up one by one and introduced themselves, and since they were fresh female students, they all looked at the introductions with happy eyes.
“Then shall we begin the meeting? The main agenda of this meeting is to create our own intelligence team. “Our business is gradually growing, and without information, we can only be passively affected, so we thought we would need an information team, so we called everyone together.”
As Hatake Investment Company, East Weapon, and Ryuto Construction grew in size, forces began to appear to try to nudge them. If you know the movement in advance, you can prepare for it, so the need for an intelligence team was growing.
And since I am tied to St. Francis Girls’ Academy, if something happens here, it takes quite a while to find out and the response is delayed, so the creation of an intelligence team is quite urgent.
“Name, name is important!”
Eve said, raising her hand from sitting down. Is the name of the intelligence team that important? I wanted to, but there was a name I had been thinking about for a long time.
“There is a saying in Korea that birds hear what you say during the day, and mice hear what you say at night. I’m thinking of naming it Tonedo (鳥鼠堂: Joseo-dang) after it. “What do you think?”
Eve seemed to want a name with some sort of force, but there were no objections whether the name Tornedoo was bad. In fact, since it was important for the intelligence team to be hidden, the less its name was revealed, the better, so there were some that were just called the intelligence team and had no name.
“If there are no objections, we will move on.”
In this way, the name of my newly created intelligence team was confirmed as Tornedo.
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Mrs. Jin Mi-ja, who appeared after a long time
