One billion... That was the final answer Maki Nishikino had gotten only after asking her father when she went home last time. After all, it was a power capable of affecting people's hearts. Thinking back to the price she had named at the time, emmm... no wonder they hadn't been able to reach an agreement!
But Maki didn't know that even if she had offered one billion, they still wouldn't have reached an agreement. Aside from the Doma Family, Sogo Doma would never allow that kind of supernatural power to run rampant in the world. Incidentally, Keiryu Doma felt the same way. The Doma Family wasn't short on such trifling sums, so why bother?
Besides, the idea that Sogo's piece could influence people's hearts sounded rather insubstantial to outsiders. It was like the legendary Black Friday, which was said to make people commit suicide—yet how many people who listened to it actually went and killed themselves?
Of course, some people claimed that the Black Friday they had heard wasn't the original version, that the real one had long since been destroyed, and so on. Keiryu Doma wasn't sure whether that was true, but he had personally experienced the fact that Sogo's music could affect people's hearts. If the outside world ever confirmed it, who knew whether some idiots might band together and pressure him into handing Sogo over!
Though neither the Doma Family nor Sogo Doma cared about the voices of the outside world, being targeted because of it would still be more trouble than it was worth... Still, all that was far too distant for Muse. Their eyes had already been blinded by the figure of one billion. That was one billion yen!
After all, even winning the lottery jackpot only got you three hundred million yen. Only three