Toyokawa Sachiko dragged her exhausted body back home.
It was a shabby apartment, the place where her father had lived after being driven out. Toyokawa Sachiko had never lived in such harsh conditions before. But now, she was gradually getting used to this tiny room, which was not even as large as her own family's living room.
Toyokawa Sachiko had been working herself to the bone in an effort to help, but Duanmu Huai pointed out...
"It's because of the way you're doing things that you've spoiled him!"
Toyokawa Sachiko did not quite understand. But according to Duanmu Huai, it seemed that "men needed to pull themselves back up on their own, rather than being supported by women." His thinking felt oddly similar to that of her grandfather. The one thing Toyokawa Sachiko had never gotten along with her grandfather over was that, in her eyes, he was always bullying her father. She could not understand it at all. Her father was clearly such a straightforward, sincere, and serious man, so why was her grandfather still so harsh with him?
It was only after she had entered society herself that Toyokawa Sachiko finally understood how naïve her previous ideas had been.
Just as Duanmu Huai had said, what people in society valued was your ability, not your character.
The working environment at Berry PRO was fairly good. In fact, before that, Sachiko had applied for jobs in many places, but most of them rejected her outright upon hearing that she was still a middle school student and had no parents to act as guarantors. At first, Toyokawa Sachiko could only find a job delivering newspapers—for a flower raised in a greenhouse, the storm of reality had come far too violently.
Even Club President Kyoko had told Sachiko that she was