Hold it, hold it!
What did she mean by not minding if she treated him as a tool? Why did that sound so damn... awkward?
Emmm...
Fine, even though Sogo Doma often mocked Yukino Yukinoshita by calling her a tool, there were different kinds of tools—countless people would jump at the chance to become a tool for the Shinomiya Family, yet never get the opportunity!
Put it this way: if the Yukinoshita Family had not become involved with the Doma Family, all Gan'an Shinomiya would have needed to say was that he lacked some subordinates he could use—and Mrs. Yukinoshita would have done everything in her power to compete for the position.
Listen carefully: compete for it. That meant they might not even be chosen!
Still, it was hardly surprising. This country was steeped in bloodline theory, after all. A chef's child could only become a chef, and a driver's child would ultimately remain a driver...
To cross social classes, unless you had the right time, place, and people all on your side...
So while the Yukinoshita Family could be considered a top-tier household in Chiba, with a construction company of their own and Mr. Yukinoshita serving as a prefectural assemblyman—enough that few would dare provoke them—what if their background was measured against the entire country? Heh, at most, they were just wealthy rural bumpkins—
If a family like that became a tool or a vanguard for the Shinomiya Family, they might rise in a single leap and become genuine "city people."
It couldn't be helped. The gap between rich and poor in this country was so vast that children from many poor families would go their entire lives without ever seeing a single child from a prestigious family!
If that were not the case, some so-called elite schools—aristocratic schools—would