Sogo Doma Influences Others.

The next day, clear skies with a light breeze.

The warm, gentle sunlight is always so fair, passing through the atmosphere to bring every sliver of warmth to the world. Coupled with the soft, balmy wind, it all gives one a sense of languor.

However, Sogo Doma, who occupies more of that sunlight than most, feels quite melancholy...

Anyone would feel melancholy if targeted by a genius girl whose brain is practically overclocked, capable of mastering any necessary skill in a very short time. Especially when that girl is backed by a terrifying conglomerate that controls 200 trillion yen.

In this country where capital is everything, as long as the other three major conglomerates don't interfere, the Shinomiya Conglomerate, with its 200 trillion yen, can even manipulate the appointment of the Prime Minister.

Of course, the Doma Main Family is not to be trifled with either. Under Sogo Doma's deliberate guidance, although the Doma Conglomerate still lags slightly behind the four major conglomerates, if it were to truly clash with one of them, it would likely result in mutual destruction, leaving the other three to pick up the pieces and annex them.

This is why Kaguya Shinomiya gave up on revenge as Sogo Doma gradually grew up.

Ah, speaking of which, it seems I've exposed something again. There was once a person named Chika Fujiwara who came to help Kaguya Shinomiya get revenge, only to be tricked by Sogo into going on an Antarctic expedition.

I still remember that time, the young lady of the Fujiwara Family stood before Sogo Doma with a look of righteous indignation.

"Wuu wuu, I heard it's freezing rain in the North Pole, the penguins and kangaroos are about to freeze to death. Look, Kaguya Shinomiya... she's even crying," Sogo Doma used his deception skill with great sorrow.

"You're lying!" Chika Fujiwara looks naive, but she isn't exactly stupid.

"Impossible. If I were lying, how would I have a photo of Kaguya Shinomiya? And a crying one at that?" Sogo Doma was even more righteous than her.

"Definitely a lie. It's freezing rain in the North Pole, what does that have to do with penguins?" Chika Fujiwara looked certain: "You're actually just trying to attract Kaguya Shinomiya's attention, so you're deliberately using this method to deceive me, right?"

Sogo Doma: "??"

"I'm going to teach you a lesson for the young lady..." Looking at the bewildered Sogo Doma, the die-hard little loli who considers herself a love expert looked nuclear-level kind. She clenched her fists; it seemed she was preparing to get serious.

However, she underestimated Sogo Doma's thick skin.

"Eh?" Sogo scratched his head, looking full of Shinichi: "It seems I remembered wrong. Actually, it's freezing rain in the South Pole. The penguins and kangaroos are so pitiful, Kaguya Shinomiya is even crying."

Fujiwara, the love expert, Chika felt her brain wasn't quite enough.

Is what this guy said true? But, Kaguya Shinomiya being moved to tears by a bottle of cola is a stretch, right? Could it be that the young lady really likes penguins that much? That's right, it must be! It makes sense now. Everything outside is just rumors; there's no way the young lady would be moved to tears by cola!

Watching Chika Fujiwara re-equip, Sogo Doma sighed:

"Ai, so, can you stop blocking me? I still have to go to the South Pole to save the penguins!"

Chika Fujiwara was immediately shocked—no, absolutely cannot let this guy who made the young lady cry go to the South Pole. Who knows what his schemes are? What if the young lady really gets hooked by him using penguins and kangaroos?

Watching Chika Fujiwara board the plane to the South Pole, Sogo Doma was full of joy: "Idiot, there are no kangaroos in the South Pole!"

Did she get the wrong point?

Small, petty acts of revenge are harmless.

Anyway, by the time the Shinomiya Family truly wants to deal with Sogo, the Doma Family will have already grown into a conglomerate only slightly inferior to them.

The Shinomiya Family also wisely chose to forget the past.

Originally, Sogo Doma thought the old matters were behind him, but he didn't expect that as soon as he moved out of the Doma Main Family, Kaguya Shinomiya would try to come knocking—that level of magnanimity is truly worthy of someone who has inherited the Shinomiya Family.

"Better not set any flags." What if he really gets dealt with by Kaguya Shinomiya?

As the saying goes, misfortunes never come singly. What made Sogo Doma even more melancholy was the news brought later by Ryunosuke Akasaka.

Still yesterday, Ryunosuke Akasaka on the screen looked at Sogo Doma.

"Hehe..." Sogo Doma let out two more awkward laughs: "Isn't it just Kaguya Shinomiya? Petty, narrow-minded..."

Ryunosuke Akasaka: "Besides the Doma Group, I have also taken on work from the Shinomiya Family... in case there are any complaints or rumors about you, Sogo-san."

A single sentence choked off Sogo Doma's complaints. After a long while, Sogo said sheepishly:

"What kind of work could those old fogies at the Shinomiya Family possibly have?" This is a fact. Apple is selling to the whole world, and Amazon is starting to build a global community, yet only the Shinomiya Family clings to their old-fashioned enterprises. Of course, this is the capital of the Shinomiya Family.

Who told the Shinomiya Family to have mines, and not just ordinary ones?

The conservative thinking of the Japanese is often much stronger than their desire for innovation—with mines in hand, many of the old fogies in the Shinomiya Family might not be able to accept those new things.

Anyway, in Sogo Doma's memory, he was already using a smartphone, while Kaguya Shinomiya was still using a meteorite machine—Nokia, outer space earth-shattering, you deserve it.

This is the truth!

Perhaps many people have lost this memory, perhaps many have forgotten the era of fighting to defend the Earth. I clearly remember—our captain threw his Nokia, and as it collided with the meteorite, everyone fell. When I woke up, the Nokia was still flying upward—

It shattered the meteorite; it even tried to intercept the enemy's spaceship. This was a classified secret of 2002, and also something we experienced firsthand. Although people never mention that battle, I hope you do not forget the name of that fight: Secret That Cannot Be Told.

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However, despite the Nokia's outstanding performance, it could not avoid the tide of being eliminated by the era. Smartphones have long occupied the market; only someone like Kaguya Shinomiya, forced to use an old antique, would care about it so much.

Regrettably, we can no longer see that scene—throwing a phone, watching it collide with a meteorite, and waiting for the phone to intercept an alien spaceship. Perhaps, only with Samsung can one see that.

I heard that to ensure people don't forget the war, they specially designed several unobservable, Schrödinger-explosion-prone phones.

Faced with such weapons, Sogo Doma is also pondering.

"Should I switch to that kind that is flammable and explosive?"

However.

Ryunosuke Akasaka was the first to interrupt his wandering thoughts: "Sogo-san, just as you told me, people change. Once the Shinomiya Family realized the wealth inherent in the information age..."

Sogo Doma: "What could those old fogies possibly realize?"

Watching Sogo Doma retort, Ryunosuke Akasaka took a bite of his tomato: "..."

The Smart Maid appeared once again: "Lord Ryunosuke says, 'This is all thanks to Sogo-san, for finally making those people understand what wealth truly is in this day and age.'"

Sogo Doma: "..."

"Are you trying to deny it, the guy who hacked the Shinomiya Family twice and caused the Shinomiya Zaibatsu to lose hundreds of billions of yen?" Ryunosuke Akasaka took another bite of his tomato and stared silently at Sogo Doma.

For some reason, after eating the tomato, the sense of oppression Sogo Doma used to feel from him seemed to have vanished significantly.

Sogo Doma gritted his teeth: "..."

This guy Akasaka really is the king of this information age! Though, he had never actually hacked the Shinomiya Family; he had merely dug a few pits for them to fall into.

Despite what he was thinking, Sogo Doma kept a smile on his face: "What denial? If I had gotten my hands on that many yen, do you think I'd still be living here?"