"Thirty million dollars?"
The silent exchange between the two left everyone else feeling baffled. In the end, Komuro Takashi was the one who voiced his confusion.
"Yeah. I said I came from Hokkaido, so my information was probably better than what you had here. Before trouble broke out in Chukashiro City, I used money to buy a lot of things."
Xu Yue spoke calmly.
It had been a normal transaction. Once the deal was made, it was final. There had been no coercion or extortion; he had merely known more than they did.
His words left Komuro Takashi and the others clicking their tongues in amazement.
Why did this cousin make thirty million dollars sound like three thousand?
Just who had he been before the disaster?
"Are you Chinese?"
But Takashiro Saya quickly picked up another useful clue from what her father had said.
Thanks to the Reincarnators' language proficiency, there was no trace of an accent or any difference in Xu Yue's speech. Coupled with the fact that he was Miyamoto Rei's cousin, they had instinctively assumed he was Japanese.
Yet now he was saying he was Chinese?
"My aunt married a Chinese man. That shouldn't be strange, should it?"
Miyamoto Rei stepped forward and said this with a straight face, a faint blush on her cheeks that made Komuro Takashi stare dumbly.
"Heh. So you admit that you swindled that hotel from one of my subordinates?"
Takashiro Soichiro's expression hardened, his face utterly stern.
"Father..."
Seeing that something was off with her father, Takashiro Saya snapped out of her earlier surprise.
Because of her family environment, her first impression of Chinese people had been rather poor. But Xu Yue was still Miyamoto Rei's cousin, and he had saved her life. She had even managed to return home because