Second Child (Family Line)

March 1995. Tokyo's late-spring chill had not yet completely faded, and Nakayama Takuya's schedule was already packed densely with English.

According to the plan, he should have been sitting in first class on a flight to San Francisco, with the procedure sheet for the Nasdaq bell-ringing ceremony at hand, along with the final confirmation plan for Sega's first E3 expo.

Silicon Valley Online's listing was the first banner Sega had planted in the internet field, while E3 was not only a stage for showing the world Jupiter's recently released games and its game development plans for the coming year, but also the first exhibition limited solely to the video game industry, held by the IDSA that Sega had taken the lead in establishing.

Either one of these two things, taken out on its own, was among Sega's top major events this year.

But at this moment, Nakayama Takuya had thrown his suitcase into the entryway, turned the car around, and charged straight toward Sugiyama Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital.

Eri was pregnant again.

Nakayama Takuya strode quickly through the waiting area, the sound of his leather shoes drawing sideways glances from the two nurses at the nurses' station.

He paid no attention to that. His gaze swept over the rows of sectional sofas provided for customers to rest on, before finally fixing on a corner.

It was his son, Nakayama Kazuki, sitting properly in a chair, his two short little legs dangling in midair, swinging back and forth.

It seemed Eri was probably still in the examination room.

The boy had just turned four this year, right at the age where he could flip the ceiling off the house and make cats and dogs detour around him.

On ordinary days, if no adult was watching him, he could turn the house