With an exceedingly complicated mix of emotions, Hashimoto Maya promptly saw the group off the island and decided to stay as far away as possible from that rude interviewee, lest some sudden incident abruptly befall him.
"The interview failed?"
As Hashimoto Maya gloomily made himself coffee in the lounge, the door clicked softly open, and Mrs. Sakihara walked in.
Hashimoto Maya glanced back at the lawyer's wife who had lost both her husband and sister through sheer skill, then nodded. "Their professional qualifications... probably won't satisfy my boss."
—Building Sea Heart Island had not been easy. Aside from the immense financial and material resources required, the paperwork alone had taken a great deal of effort.
Perhaps Uzo's conscience had stirred, or perhaps he had found Hashimoto Maya's island-building life too dull and uneventful. Some time ago, he had given him a colleague—the seemingly gentle and virtuous lawyer's wife before him.
Faced with this colleague who had dropped from the sky, Hashimoto Maya maintained the utmost courtesy while keeping his guard at its highest.
Fortunately, for the time being, this lawyer's wife was easy enough to get along with and not very aggressive. After discovering Hashimoto Maya's enormous workload, she had even helped share some of it, on the principle that idle hands needed something to do.
"This lady seems unaware of Lord Uzo's identity, and she isn't an Organization member either. In that case, she probably isn't included in Uzo's terrifying 'last-place elimination' rankings."
Hashimoto Maya sympathized with this unfortunate woman who had wandered into a wolf's den, but there was no reason not to use labor that had delivered itself to his door. After thinking it over, he decided to treat a dead horse as if it were alive and asked, "Do you happen to know any Magicians?"
—Lawyers