This Guy Might Be a Boss! (continued)

So the security here at the main house was extremely tight.

"Begin the mission."

And as soon as he arrived, Oreki immediately began the mission.

The mission required him to eavesdrop on Kaguya's brothers loudly plotting, and the required duration was not short either: ten minutes.

So he could let the system start counting now.

Below him, the Shinomiya Family patriarch's three sons were holding a discussion.

"The old man went to the hospital again."

"His body gave out a long time ago."

"He's cold, heartless, and he's done so many awful things. The fact that heaven hasn't come for him after all this time is already a huge blessing."

"In any case, after the old man dies, the Shinomiya Family's assets will be ours."

Kaguya's father was already over sixty, nearly seventy, and her three brothers, even the youngest of them, were uncle-aged men in their forties or fifties.

"But the family estate has to be divided into four shares," one brother said.

"You mean Kaguya Shinomiya?"

"There's no need to consider her," one brother said. "She'll marry out sooner or later."

"Even if she marries out, we still have to prepare a very large dowry."

"So why not do this? Let her marry on her own."

"What do you mean?"

"If it's an ordinary marriage, their statuses will match, and we'll have to prepare a corresponding dowry. But if she falls for some poor boy, then it's a mismatch in status... and if we oppose it harshly enough..."

That brother said, "Then wouldn't Kaguya have no choice but to elope?"

"And if she elopes, she gets no money."

"Exactly. Even if we only gave her a relatively small share, it would still be a huge sum. Better to let her elope on her own."

"At the end of