Chapter 35: A peaceful day

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It's Friday. The next day after the 'Highway Incident', to keep the cannon or what's left of it intact, I asked Sugimura to make his subordinates apologize to local residents. And make it seem like Kanji's beatdown is the cause of the apologies. And it seems all my efforts paid off.

Today proceeded like cannon, where a news crew interviewed Kanji, only to be yelled at and asked to scram, which they did. But sadly for Kanji he's already Live in national T.V. the whole time courtesy of Fuji Entertainment Group.

I skipped school today, as Haruka is somehow here, and Daigo-nii being the responsible brother he is, is nowhere to be seen in the morning. Without Uncle Ryo's reminder I would've forgotten Haruka's here from yesterday. Sorry Haruka.

I stood in front of the door as I waited for Haruka to get ready.

"I'm ready Akira-nii. Where are we going today?"

Haruka dressed like her canon counterpart. With a white jacket, neck-length hair, and black shorts.

"Hmmmm. Have you ever been to a theme park before?"

"I haven't, Uncle Kaz promises to take me there, but something came up."

Oh dear, oh dear, gorgeous.

"Come on then let's go to a theme park."

"But there's no theme park here Akira-nii."

"No problem, we're going to take a train to Osaka, we'll have fun there and be back here by dinner."

"Yay! Let's go then!"

What an angelic smile. It seems that I'm weak against kids. And so, with the motorcycle keys Uncle Ryo left me, we rode it towards the train station.

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We arrived at the train station.

"Maou-sama! What are you doing here?"

"Hmmm? Oh Sataka-san, I'm heading to Osaka."

"Oh I see, well it's just surprising to see you skip school. I heard you're quite the academic type."

"True. But something came up, so I just left. By the way can you watch over this for me? Take it back to your compound or drop it by Uncle Ryo's place."

I threw the keys towards him.

"A-ah Ok. I'm still waiting for a few things though, but I'll take care of the bike, don't worry."

With that taken care of, I simply took haruka's hand and walked towards the receptionist. To buy the fastest ticket to Osaka, and lucky us, it's about to leave in 15 minutes.

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We literally had the trains to ourselves as, at this hour no one is riding the train towards Osaka.

"So how's school Haruka?"

"Hmm… Oh, school's fine."

She looked sad? I wonder what's on her mind.

"Why are you sad? Do you miss Uncle Kaz? Or your friends maybe?"

"No, it's just, am I a bother? I heard you skipped school to accompany me."

Well that's just… direct.

"Well haruka, it's all about priority."

"Priority?"

"Yup, when you grow up, you'll soon find out that you are always out of time." (WN: to watch it all unwind.)

"Like Uncle Kaz? Recently he doesn't have time for Haruka. Is Haruka not his priority then?"

"Hahaha, it's the opposite actually."

"What do you mean Akira-nii?"

"Uncle Kaz cares a lot for Haruka, that's why he always works as fast as possible, to hurry back and spend time with Haruka at home."

"But then won't Uncle Kaz get tired? He's always been working recently."

"Don't worry about Uncle Kaz, Haruka should focus on things she can do, so Uncle Kaz can do the things he does best without worry. The better he does, the faster he can go home and spend time with Haruka."

"Umu!" did she just umu'd?

She finally smiled.

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During the hour-long train ride, Haruka fell asleep almost instantly after our conversation. One can only imagine how much the girl tires herself everyday thinking about Uncle Kaz. but He's her only family after all.

"We're about to arrive at Osaka Station, please check your belongings."

The announcement came, right after the city is visible from the windows.

"Haruka, wake up, or I'll leave you and have fun on my own ~"

"Nooo..."

As Haruka woke up and pouted at me. Hahaha. Cute is justice.

"Okay, okay, I won't leave you. But promise me don't go too far from me."

"Hmmm." she nodded at my words.

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As we exited the station, I found OA men had already been watching out for me, and when they found me they just waved at me, signaling me to come close.

"Akira-sama, we're from the Kinoshita family. I'm sorry to have not greeted you earlier as we've just arrived."

Hmmm, I'm pretty sure I didn't tell them I'm coming here.

"It's fine, I was supposed to travel by myself anyway."

"I'm sorry but we've been told to escort you today."

"Fine. but do you have any inconspicuous clothes?"

"But of course."

As we head inside the car.

"Where are we heading to?"

"Universal studios, Haruka here have been wanting to go there."

"Yeah!"

Haruka nodded.

"Okay then Akira-sama."

"So, How are the Kinoshita twins lately?"

Our driver told me about their activities this week, it seems that Hideyoshi is hard at work on finding recording studios, while Yuuko had already built herself a publishing company, and her first book is set to come out early June.

Oh yeah I almost forgot to tell Hideyoshi that we've got a way into Fuji Entertainment group. Maybe I should meet him after this.

While thinking about my plans, it seems to me that we've arrived at Universal Studios. Haruka's eyes are practically shining like stars when we arrive. As we got down, another one of Kinoshita's family men took us to the ticketing staff, and like before we're instantly allowed to enter without lining up prior.

Before we get in I tell the Kinoshita Family's men to tell Hideyoshi that I had something to talk to him about and we should meet up around next week.

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Entering the theme park, what captures Haruka's eye is the ferris wheel. So I took her there, today's supposed to be a school day so the theme park is practically empty. Only a few people here and there. Well that's good for us, it means that we got a lot more time in our hands to try out this and that.

"Wow! The view is great!"

"Yeah."

I had fun seeing Haruka this energetic and excited. But suddenly I felt a headache, the skies for a moment turned red, then black, before returning back to its former color.

Hmmm what's this? It's not supposed to be time yet right? I should have 5 more years before the next game. Don't tell me the research is done. I may have to change my plans if so.

"Akira-nii! Akira-nii! What's wrong?"

"Ah, oh, nothing! I'm just scared of heights. Hahaha."

Imagine Haruka with a shocked face. Cute is justice.

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We enjoyed a whole lot more rides after that, with Haruka enjoying every second of it. After hours of enjoying rides in the theme park, Haruka is finally tired, so with that, we exit the theme park only to find Kinoshita's men ready to take us to a privately owned lodging. It seems that Hideyoshi is also here. So there's that. What an impatient man you are.

We ended up in one of Osaka's best inn, where I lay down haruka to let her sleep. She sure had fun today. I was thinking about nonchalant things while walking towards Hideyoshi's room.

"Welcome maou-sama to my humble abode."

Hideyoshi is wearing a bathing robe. He seemed for femine than usual. His room is just like any other room in this inn. With tatami mats all over and a small table in the middle.

"So what do you have for me?"

He gestures to me to sit in front of him.

"We need to talk about a lot of things actually."

"Oh? Do you need anyone else from the alliance?"

"Not now, you can just forward it to them later."

He serves me tea.

"First thing first, we're going to take over Fuji entertainment group."

He choked on his tea.

"I had a 'deal' with the heir of the family. I insisted him to take over, or we'll have trouble, and it seems like he had succeeded one way or another in persuading his old man."

"aa--As expected of my lord."

"We'll soon be visiting their HQ, but I don't know where it is, do you have any idea where?"

"Well from what I can tell their broadcasting studio is based on Tokyo, on Odaiba-bay."

"Hmmm. ok, we may need to go there next week. How is your project with Majima-san?"

"Well… let's say he has a certain charm that people cannot refuse and it helped us a lot. We've managed to secure a record label, and with a Tv studio working with us, we'll have an easier time moving forward…. That said, I've noticed that girls in showbiz are a bit… cautious on the change of management… but as expected of Majima-dono, he single handedly persuaded all of the casts to stay."

"It seems that it is true huh, females on showbiz are really being predated."

"I'm afraid so. They're more of an animal than they made us out to be. What would you have me do in this maou-sama?"

"Then Hideyoshi-kun, I'll give you the privilege to castrate anyone necessary."

"Will that solve the problem?"

He sweatdropped at my answer.

"If you give the name to Majima-san, I'm sure he'll be more than happy to help."

"Ahahaha I'll keep it in mind. By the way Majima-san seems eager to meet you. He said he misses the 'mini Kiryuu-chan' or something amongst those lines."

Well that's worrisome, If I had to deal with Majima, I'll be long dead before the day ends.

"Oh and one more thing Hideyoshi."

"What is it?"

"Do we have anyone we can trust in the government?"

"Currently no, but we have funds to get some information if that's what you need."

"Hmmm that's going to be hard. What about a name, can you get me information from a name?"

"Depends on the person and how hard is it to find him or her."

"Ok then. I need the information of one person in particular : [Sojiro Sakura] "

I then explain to him what to expect and to proceed with extreme caution, telling him that no matter what he does, makes sure it is not possible to be tracked back to us.

"It'll take time. But why the importance?"

"You'll know soon after you found out about him, and if you see that any one of your subordinates is acting strange, call me right away."

"Waga Maou!"

He said, as he made a knightly bow with his hand on his chest. Is this the norm nowadays?

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As soon as I finished the talk, I went to check up on Haruka. She's still sleeping. Hideyoshi advises me to take one of his cars and let Haruka rest. I simply agree to his suggestion. And so the day went by peacefully.