Chapter 468
[I'm sure you're always grateful and remembering this in your heart. In a week (to be precise, only six days left), it will be your great and beautiful aunt's birthday. Have you prepared your birthday present?]
Isn't he dear and great...?
"Um?"
Sakurakoji Talent blinked, surprised that the email was actually about this.
Well... to be honest, although he remembered her birthday, he did forget to prepare a birthday present for her—mainly because he didn't have time.
In the past few years, he had always sewn a costume of his own design for her, but this year he was too busy, and the costume he gave her couldn't be as perfunctory as making Cosplay Costume... otherwise he would definitely suffer her Kokoro revenge!
So he planned to go for a stroll on the street later and buy a luxury item that wouldn't be impolite.
Even so, he was prepared to be told, "What a thoughtless gift!"
"I can't feel any soul in this." "Do you have a problem with me, hmm?"
Things like that.
He sighed at her difficulty and continued reading:
[If you're ready, I apologize in advance, but just throw it away and prepare something new. If you're not ready yet... you'd better be ready.]
"..."
My heart skipped a few beats uncontrollably, and the veins on my temples bulged.
No wonder she's my blood-related aunt; she can be so infuriating!
He suppressed the urge to throw the notebook out the window, gritted his teeth, and continued reading.
[For my birthday present this year, Auntie, I want something different~ something special and gorgeous, beautiful and romantic, cool and touching, something that makes people envious and jealous... you know what I mean, right?]
I don't know anything about you!
They're all so old, what's the point of pursuing romance anymore!
[Finally, your gentle and understanding aunt has a hint for you: your new toy.]
[Alright! It's getting late! Auntie, I'm going to take a shower and go to bed!]
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[Hmph~ You're just fantasizing, aren't you? About my perfect and adorable body.]
[As expected, you're just a lecherous little brat!]
After coldly reading the last line, Sakurakoji Talent didn't hesitate to open the email and start typing rapidly:
[Respectfully yours:]
My narcissistic and arrogant aunt, as you can see, I am your charming and capable nephew.
I'll handle the gift situation—if I have time. As you know, I've been very busy lately.
Finally, regarding the joke you made at the end of the article, I, your nephew, have something I must clarify:
That is: I don't like most lolis except for my mother. I prefer mature women and beautiful girls to lolis.
Of course, more importantly... I'm not interested in older women who are much older than me!!!
He breathed a sigh of relief after writing this self-destructive email in a minute.
Send!
Ignoring any potential repercussions from her, he cleared his mind of his jumbled thoughts and began browsing other emails.
Like Okura Rina, most of them were sent by friends and family.
For example, his father said in the email that they were about to board the plane and would let him know they arrived safely in New York and explain the situation.
For example, there's a gentle aunt who's completely different from Okura Rina are full of warm words of concern for his well-being, unlike a shameless elder who asks his nephew for gifts.
And a cousin who was in the America at the time, while inquiring about his recent situation, asked him if he had any interest in entering the social scene, saying that if he wanted to, he could take care of everything.
Or perhaps it's some silly but handsome uncle who, upon learning he has multiple girlfriends, writes a letter praising him for doing a great job, saying he's truly worthy of being his blood-related nephew...
Sadly, he will never be able to explain this misunderstanding to him in his lifetime—mainly because the other person's intelligence is not up to par.
It's hard to imagine that, as his blood Relatives, there could be such a useless person with an IQ below 130!
Especially his paternal uncles and aunts, whose average IQ was at least 140, after he was added... it would decrease by at least 15 points.
Fortunately, his son inherited his mother's intelligence, unlike him...
However, the emails from Relatives are coming in such quick succession, it seems to be related to the Golden Week holiday, and the news has already reached them by word of mouth. This is really a headache.
Regarding friends—he doesn't have many old friends, and his recent friends are mostly people he communicates with via common software, phone calls, and text messages.
After replying to all my Relatives' emails, during a brief break, my computer started beeping incessantly, as if it had been bombarded.
He was startled at first, but was relieved after recognizing the messenger.
Without even glancing at it, he immediately set her account to Do Not Disturb mode, then ended his break and continued opening other emails.
As mentioned before, he doesn't have many connections.
The rest were mostly business partners and subordinates who had never met him before, as well as some people from the gold and silver business circles who somehow obtained his contact information and hoped to meet him and cooperate in the future.
The program then replied or ignored the message in a perfunctory manner, indicating that it might resume some work soon... In the end, only one unread email with a red dot remained in the inbox.
He glanced at the sender, his pupils narrowed slightly, and he became more focused, his expression much more serious than before.
The other party was a business partner he had recently met online.
Compared to others, the other party has three unique characteristics.
Firstly, the other party is a technical genius whom he recognizes, with exceptionally strong professional skills;
Secondly, the other person was someone he had only recently met; to be precise, he had only met her after arriving in Japan, making her the person he had known the least among those he had replied to.
Thirdly, he didn't know the other person's true identity, and like him, the other person didn't seem to like showing their face in public.
Looking at the pseudonym that was the same as someone he knew, he pursed his lips and rolled his eyes, but he didn't really care.
Since they were just business partners, his personality and character were not important to him, and he had no intention of having anyone investigate them.
He believes that knowing when to be curious and when to be respectful is one of his strengths.
He only got to know the other party because he was interested in their business plan, and that's why he agreed to their investment request.
That's right, the other party also approached him on their own initiative.
But unlike the people he had just ignored, this person presented detailed "content" from the very beginning, enough to earn his favor.
After finalizing the general details of the agreement, he agreed without hesitation to the enormous investment in the project.
If it were any other company or individual, facing such a large investment of tens of billions of yen, they would certainly have to carefully consider, conduct internal discussions, and negotiate for several months.
However, he always maintains a decisive attitude and approach towards projects he approves of. For him, time is the most precious thing.
This is also an important factor in how quickly he was able to accumulate wealth.
As for what to do if it fails... well, it fails. No investment is ever completely risk-free. He's not gambling with his entire fortune. The important thing is the probability of winning or losing!
Not to mention, the other party also demanded such outrageous additional terms... Only he could pull this off. Anyone else would probably have thought he was insane and thrown out. Did he really think other people's money grew on trees?
At the same time, that was also his last investment before ending his business career. He then handed it over to people arranged by Okura Iyo to handle, and no one knows how it's going now.
He was so busy before that he didn't pay any attention to that kind of thing.
Unlike finance, manufacturing is much slower. At most, two or three months have passed, and it's easy to see that there won't be much progress. It will probably take some more time.
But it's alright, he's very patient, and besides, we have plenty of time now.
After making a few quick adjustments, he relaxed and opened the email:
[Respectfully yours:]
Dear Mr. "Armand de Dracula", it's been a long time since I last sent my greetings.
I've been so busy with our shared great cause lately that it's taken me so long to send you a greeting. I'm so sorry!
I would like to thank you once again for your great investment.
This kindness will be remembered and will surely be transformed into tangible results!
I heard that you have recently taken a temporary break from the business world due to personal matters. It is truly regrettable, Desu!
However, please be sure to take care of your health! Because I've heard that some young people these days are getting a bit dissolute... cough! Excuse me!
Getting back to the main point, the reason I'm bothering you today is because my work has achieved some progress, and I feel it's necessary to report it to you.
As an investor, I hope you can take a moment, a little bit... to pay attention to this matter in your spare time (but it's okay if you don't, it's really not a big deal).
And then, if you're satisfied with the results... could you perhaps make an additional investment... or something like that!
Oh dear! My apologies for being so rude!
Wishing you good health, a harmonious family, a successful career, and ever-improving looks!
Chapter 430 Dragon Scale Horse! Refund!
The email wasn't long; he read it in just ten seconds. But the implications it contained left him stunned and speechless for a full ten minutes.
Despite the polite wording, he only gleaned two words from the entire message: "Add more money."
"..."
If he remembered correctly, that was tens of billions of yen, and after only two or three months, they were already asking him for money again?
He clenched his fists tightly, his pearly white teeth, without a single crack, bit down hard, as if he wanted to reach into the screen and bite the other person to death!
Damn it, isn't this bullying honest people?!
Besides yourself, who else will invest in you?
You're not only ungrateful and don't know how to be frugal, but how the hell did you even use it all?! How could you burn through tens of billions in such a short time?!
This amount of money would be enough to build several factory production lines!
You wouldn't have taken my money to play the billion-dollar subsidy game, would you?!
Even with billions in subsidies, you still need a platform and products! Tell me, where are my goods?!
Sakurakoji Talent felt a chill run down his spine, as if he had been the victim of a telecom scam.
For the first time, he began to doubt his own judgment.
This doesn't seem like a clueless startup Shiro-chan desperate for funding; rather, it sounds like a scam exploiting loss aversion, trying to lure him into continuously pouring money into this bottomless pit until he's bankrupt...
Dragon Scale Horse! Refund! I'm quitting!
His forehead was covered in black lines, and his face gradually turned blue. In his heart, filled with grief and indignation, he cursed the mythical Divine Beast in a local dialect.
Compared to the seemingly harmless guy across from him, even his own capitalist alias, which he adopted with the intention of portraying a reclusive, snow-white, noble, and beautiful young vampire, seemed quite amiable!
With that insane speed at which they demand money, you might as well just rob a bank!
No way! Even robbing a local branch of a bank in a day wouldn't be enough to steal this much money in such a short time!
Small and medium-sized branches typically keep only tens of millions of yen in cash on hand each day, while large central branches only have a few hundred million yen. Even if you had all of that, you still couldn't raise enough.
Do you know what this number means?
This is enough to pay off someone's father's debts... never mind, that joke has been used too much, let's try something else.
This amount is enough to buy over three hundred lifetimes of a certain Superman's indebted butler!
That much money, starting from the year he started earning his own money at age 8, on average, would take him... four or five months to earn!
That's one-twentieth of his fortune—and if you include the Ten no Yashiro, it probably isn't even that much.
But you only used half the time and then spent it all?
Spending money faster than earning it made Sakurakoji Talent feel a sense of crisis.
It is common knowledge that excessive consumption is unwise, and risky investments are a harbinger of bankruptcy!
Even a wealthy man like him, being frugal by nature and having detached himself from vulgar pursuits, usually spends very restrained and modestly. The other person's spending during this period is more than he has spent on himself over the past ten years...