"I mean! Don't tell me you're not interested unless it's about ninja, or who's stronger and who's weaker! Matsushita Yoichiro was amazing! If it hadn't been for Matsushita Yoichiro's recommendations, my father and mother wouldn't have gotten married at all, okay?"
Seeing their sheepish expressions, Ino Yamanaka could not help puffing out her cheeks and lightly stomping her foot, producing a muffled thump against the floor.
Honestly, Matsushita Yoichiro was very important to her. If Matsushita Yoichiro had not been so popular, then her father and mother—both fans of his—would not have collided in the crowd while rushing to buy a bestselling novel he had reviewed. Her father would not have used his body to protect her mother from the stampede that was about to happen. The two of them would not have met, nor would they later have found themselves talking more and more happily because they both liked Matsushita Yoichiro and the novels he recommended.
In the end, on the night before she was to carry out an extremely dangerous mission, the two of them got together.
And eventually, they entered the halls of marriage.
To her, and to her father and mother, without Matsushita Yoichiro, their family might never have existed at all.
That was why Matsushita Yoichiro was an incredibly, incredibly important person to her.
Even though she had never met him.
Still, judging from the heartfelt comments he wrote when recommending novels, she could tell that Matsushita Yoichiro was definitely a sincere and gentle person.
Although Matsushita Yoichiro had stopped publishing book reviews and recommending novels long ago, she had read every novel in her home's collection that contained his recommendations and reviews.
And like her parents, she had become one of his absolute fans.
If she had to list her greatest regrets now, Matsushita