Director Kanda picked up the tea on the table and took a small sip before questioning his old friend, sounding rather exasperated. "What exactly are you thinking? Don't tell me you never considered how much trouble you'd cause the Board of Directors by letting Arisu do this?"
"..."
Chairman Sakayanagi didn't immediately respond to his colleague. He only gazed at the posts on the forum with a troubled expression for a long while. It wasn't until Aragaki Shun posted two more that he finally came back to himself.
"...Well, Arisu's grown up, too. Some things can't be put off forever."
"Hm?" At Sakayanagi Narimori's wistful remark, Director Kanda couldn't help letting out a puzzled sound. "You've made up your mind already? Why not wait a little longer? Maybe once the technology advances, there'll be a more suitable treatment for Arisu's heart condition."
Sakayanagi Narimori shook his head. "We could certainly keep putting it off, but my family has already started urging me. They're worried that if I don't start grooming an heir soon, the position of Board Chairman will eventually be taken out of the Sakayanagi Family's hands for good."
As he spoke, Sakayanagi Narimori deliberately glanced at his colleague across the table, drawing an awkward chuckle from Director Kanda.
To a certain extent, the weakness of the Sakayanagi Family benefited the other directors on the Board.
The Board Chairman knew this perfectly well, but he didn't hold it against them. Ever since he learned Arisu's heart condition was difficult to cure, he'd known he would eventually face the predicament before him.
If he had the chance, of course he wanted to pass his position, connections, and wealth on to his own branch of the family.
But given Arisu's physical condition, inheriting the position of Board Chairman at Kodo Ikusei