Tree Orchard Restaurant Hotel, VIP private room.
While Sogo Doma was talking with Mai Sakurajima, Shizuka Hiratsuka and Taihei Doma had already watched the performance by "Shizuka Hiratsuka" on the television screen with looks of utter dismay. Or rather, they had rewatched it...
The Shizuka Hiratsuka on the screen reenacted what Taihei Doma had just done, except she hadn't handed over the ten million yen...
The cow-themed proprietress sighed emotionally. "Miss, your blind date is just like you—a sufferer of commitment phobia. Still, for the sake of a blind date, you two actually went this far..."
Shizuka Hiratsuka: "..."
So if she left now, she would be the one paying a hundred million yen?
Taihei Doma: "..."
Sogo really had planned everything out!
In truth, a hundred million yen wasn't a problem for either of them. As long as they asked their families, a hundred million yen would be pocket change. But both of them had personalities that valued making their own way, and for people who had only been working for a short time, a hundred million yen was an astronomical sum!
After the playback ended, the image on the television flickered again, and the masked Sogo Doma appeared. "Shizuka Hiratsuka, do you have any other thoughts? The fair and impartial Hell Kura would never overlook anything!"
"Sogo..." Before Shizuka Hiratsuka could say anything, Taihei Doma coldly spoke first. "What exactly are you trying to do? Do you know that what you're doing is—"
"Not Sogo, but Okita Kura! Doing what? Is it illegal, or is it a crime? I spent ten million yen treating you two to a meal, yet you're saying that's a crime..." Sogo Doma said in an "injured" tone.
"You impersonated us and signed some ridiculous contract!" Shizuka Hiratsuka retorted.
"What do you mean, I