As the Doma Family's current "sole" heir, Taihei, that foolish little brother, was clearly quite unqualified. While most company chairmen had experience working at the grassroots level, they had at most done so to gain an understanding of it. Who would be like Taihei and genuinely want to start from the bottom, climbing step by step?
What was more, this was a country where seniority was far more useful than ability. Forget positions—even salaries rose year by year according to how long one had been working. Even a genius like Ryunosuke Akasaka had suffered because of this. If he had not met Sogo Doma early on, he might still have been worrying about how to get his university tuition.
Ahem. After all, aside from Sogo Doma or one's own relatives, no one was willing to hire child labor. No, it should be said that even family members might not dare to hire them openly. At most, they would give them a little more pocket money in the name of asking for help. Who would be like a certain Doma and actually pay them wages without even docking their pay...
It was precisely because of that that, although Sogo Doma was rather unreliable and had brought little Ryunosuke countless dark moments in his past, Ryunosuke still remained grateful to Sogo. Without even realizing it, that person had given the boy the hope and confidence to keep living.
One had to know that Ryunosuke Akasaka was a genius capable of independently creating artificial intelligence. He had even contributed to the smartphones developed by the Doma Family. It could not be helped—someone was simply too much of a slacker, while Ryunosuke Akasaka's brain was too useful. Sogo had merely provided a concept, and the other had written the operating program, even claiming:
"This