As the Doma Family's current "sole" heir, Taihei, that foolish little brother, was clearly quite unqualified. While most company presidents had experience working at the bottom, it was usually only to gain an understanding of things. Who would be like Taihei and genuinely want to start from the bottom, climbing upward step by step?
What was more, this was a country where seniority was far more useful than ability. Never mind positions—even salaries rose year by year according to how long one had been employed. Even a genius like Ryunosuke Akasaka had suffered because of it. If he had not met Sogo Doma early on, he might still have been figuring out how to pay for university.
Ahem. After all, aside from Sogo Doma or one's own relatives, no one was willing to employ child labor. No, it should be said that even one's own relatives might not dare hire them openly. At most, they would give them a little extra pocket money under the guise of asking for help. Who would be like a certain Doma and actually pay wages without skimming a portion off the top...
It was precisely because of this that, although Sogo Doma was rather unreliable and had given little Ryunosuke countless embarrassing black marks in his past, Ryunosuke still remained grateful to Sogo. Without even realizing it, that person had given the boy hope and confidence to keep living.
One had to know that Ryunosuke Akasaka was a genius capable of independently creating artificial intelligence. Even the smartphones developed by the Doma Family owed part of their success to him. It could not be helped—someone was simply too lazy, while Ryunosuke Akasaka's mind was far too useful. Sogo merely provided a concept, and the other party wrote the operating program, even declaring:
"This program