So then, Yossi didn't actually create/form The Eyes? They were a group already in existence and Yossi just found out about them? By the sounds of what Mai and Ayaka just said, it looks like perhaps they have and show a bit more respect for Yossi than they do the other people that employ their services, but at the end of the day, they're pretty much a mercenary group-for-hire.
we will delve into the eyes' history soon...
Holy shit, that's huge.
that's around 1,120,000 Philippine pesos ; US$ 28,000
I love how wise Shiba-chan seems in comparison to Ayaka and Mai who are serious sometimes but mostly joking around and crazy! Not that their advice isn't always good.
shiba-chan's (the real one) first impression to me was a real level-headed person... like a foil to rika's ~Happy~ (said in the way that Yukari doesn't)... that kinda stuck to me...
they SHOULD conserve water my vote was the eh what thing because I didn't know, can I change my answer?
i'll just make a mental note about that...
I'm writing fast, eh? whenever this speed writing and cannot-catch-up issue is brought up, there's a song playing in my head. Shit, I still can't figure which song it is..
is that going to be, like, our fics' themesong?
I'm glad you were amused by my sex post. I'd be cool if you wrote about them having sex but don't force it. If you're not comfortable, don't do it.
actually i been thinking about it since... around update #30... i was really conflicted about it because sex could really change the dynamics of their relationship... also given their past, their experiences with rape (yossui having witnessed one (and rika being a reminder of that) and rika almost being a victim)... ... if sex is really going to happen between these two... probably... in update #350... :LOL:
While it's nice that Yossi wants to make amends for the part that Jin played in sinking CorPrint, Shiba-chan's right, Rika wouldn't want Yossi to make such a sacrifice to do it. She doesn't want to be a charity case.
Though Yossie just wants to help Rika in every way and any way, I doubt Rika is interested in that business anymore. She'll be happier off with Yossi. Hopefully this is the last time Yossi brings up this issue.
Yeah, I don't think Yossy should pay the debt. I mean, I doesn't seem to be put on Rika so she's okay. Yossy just needs to take care of her and love her.
AMEN!!!
UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #4
Ayaka and Mai were stunned at Rika’s question but they dared not to deny her request.
“… Uncle Jin…” Ayaka looked out the glass wall. There were pigeons and sparrows in flight amidst the smog of the city. Ayaka breathed in deep. “Yoshiko’s relationship with her father is really strange… even for Mai and me.”
Mai elaborated Ayaka’s point as if they were communicating telepathically. “They seem to have a love-hate relationship. He seems to love her but she hates him… When we were way younger it was the other way around. He was cold and very demanding of her. Yoshiko did everything to please her father. He wanted his eldest child to be a son. She became that son. They fished together, went hiking together, they even played a piece in an event together. She plays the violin and he plays the cello. ”
“That all changed when she was seven…”
Hicchan’s mom… Rika looked down in reverence to the memory of Hitomi’s mother.
Mai noticed Rika’s respectful gesture. “Your expression tells us that you have been told of what happened all those years ago… That was when Yoshiko began to withdraw from her father. She wanted to go after the man who violated and murdered her mother. He didn’t want to. Yoshiko studied sketching then, attempting to make a sketch of that man. She was just seven but she really worked hard on it. She's really good too. Know all those paintings in her condo? Some of those, she painted that early.”
Seven? Hicchan said she was thirteen when she began drawing…
Ayaka stood up and got a bottle of water from the small refrigerator in the office. “She remembered his face pretty well. I remember getting scared when she showed me her final sketch. She hoped her father would take her sketch to the police to find the murderer. He tore up the sketch and Yoshiko’s hope for justice. He said what’s done has been done.” She twisted the cap open and drank the half the bottle’s contents she then passed the bottle to Mai who finished off the rest of the water.
“Yoshiko became an extreme introvert then. The two of us were the only ones she confided in. Probably because we became friends before our parents met, unlike her other friends who were really just the children of her parents’ friends.” Mai stood up and took the bottle to the trash bin.
“After Uncle Jin tore up the sketch, Yoshiko wasn’t able to make another sketch… she wanted to make another one to take to the police herself, we were supposed to go with her. But given our ages, all our parents thought they wouldn’t take us seriously. Somehow they convinced her to stop obsessing over it.”
“Everything was more or less a stable indifference-driven relationship between them after that until she was thirteen and they found auntie’s will.”
“Uncle Jin was stunned… it was either because he didn’t expect such will to exist or because she made an early termination of his role as company president. She left Yoshiko to take charge when she’s the right age.”
“Because of that, Uncle Jin forced Yoshiko to take economics, management and business crash courses at 15 years old. She still went to the university to formal degrees in economics and management but she was already way ahead of her classes. She joined the soccer team just so she wouldn’t get bored with university life. She really just wanted to be a violinist but he kept her from that. She even had to hide her violin at my place because she said he was out to get rid of her violin. She would come over on weekends and play the violin for hours. I remember a large group of girls would always gather by our yard to hear her play.”
“That was one trait she, her brothers and her father shared. Chick-magnets.” Ayaka and Mai smiled at each other. “After the whole ordeal with the will came out, many high society girls were hoping to be paired off with her, even when we were still in middle school. Yoshiko is good-looking, rich, and couldn’t get anyone pregnant. Yoshiko had it better than a lot of guys from the same status.”
“Among them was… …” Mai paused and took Ayaka aside. “Should we tell her about the beetle?”
“I think so… Ayumi’s telling on Rika-chan too…”
Mai returned to her chair “Among them was Fujimoto Miki-san…”
Rika looked confused. “She was the one with Matsuura Aya-san, right?”
“Yes, she’s the one… She was the “not-so-lucky-after-all-girl” Uncle Jin handpicked.”
“Although she’s not exactly from high society, her father’s fame as the leading aviation engineer made their “thing” was a potential asset to AviCor. A lot of speculative businessmen invested in AviCor because of that.”
“But they eventually broke up… Mikitty was in love with someone else… And Yoshiko… didn’t like to play second string… It was all their father’s games after all… Mikitty and Yoshiko played along... but they also played their own game...” Mai decided to stop there. Telling Rika that Hitomi can flirt like crazy is not a good idea. Surely not.
“Anyway… that kind of sums up most of the reasons why Yoshiko hates her father. We’re still in the dark about the other things… Yoshiko doesn’t like to talk about him… We just piece things together… Just bear with her fits of rage at times. Also there are formalities to be taken care of…”
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