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Ojou-sama Soars Part 5
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No matter what I want to do, I can’t start anything without money.
I have confirmed my position, so let’s do our best.
“I want to go out, could you prepare?”
The butler Tachibana Ryuji bowed at my clear manner of speaking and confirmed.
The silver-haired old man who used to work under my grandfather did not treat me as a child outwardly.
Nonetheless, I’d be troubled if he only saw my behavior as just pretending to be an adult.
“Understood, Ojou-sama. Where are we heading to?”
“Far East Bank, Tokyo branch office.”
The Far East Bank, part of the Far East Group, is a regional bank with its head office in a regional city near the Sea of Japan.
When the head office was set up, the Far East Group chose the location due to its relationship with the Eastern Bloc, but the bank was struggling to recover after the bubble.
In addition, the Far East Bank is a branch of the Keika Group, so there’s always the fear of being cut-off.
“Welcome, Runa Ojou-sama. What business do you have here today?”
The branch manager, wearing a suit and glasses, greeted me in the noble guest room.
Orange juice was placed on top of the extravagantly furnished table.
While admiring the branch manager’s business style of greeting me in the noble waiting room despite me being a child, I demand that he doesn’t treat me like one though!
Since I’m here, let’s try lisping like a little girl.
“It’s no big deal. Please show me this bank’s balance sheet♪”
“Ha?”
“Ha?”
I took several quick gulps of the orange juice as I glanced at the two adult voices.
Let’s make a blatant child appeal.
“I like grape juice more than orange juice. Prepare that for me the next time I come, all right?”
“I am deeply sorry for that. However, Ojou-sama, the balance sheet is……”
“Just because I’m a kid doesn’t mean that you can talk about anything. Things are going to get into my ears.”
I changed my tone.
It’s important that I continue to keep taking initiative in this type of conversation.
Also, the real purpose is to win my butler, Tachibana Ryuji, over to my side rather than the branch manager.
As a little girl, it’s necessary that I have the cooperation of adults to make money at this time.
“This bad debt isn’t a laughing matter you know. The head family is also thinking about giving up on the bank. Right now, the housing-loan corporation problems have caught on fire, and you understand who’ll be fired, right?”
I folded my arms on the table and proceeded to talk like it was natural.
While the land myth collapsed and everyone was carrying bad debts, the house-loan corporation problem burst into flames when the National Diet dealt the finishing blow and led to the 1997 financial crisis.
“Pardon my rudeness, Ojou-sama. Even if that may be true, tell me what Ojou-sama can do then?”
The branch manager attempted to counterattack.
I easily conceded defeat.
“Oh my. I am a woman. There is only one thing a woman can do.”
I wonder who said that women were born women and actors by nature.
Even if I’m a young girl, I wonder if my mother gave me the ways to seduce men from inside her stomach.
“It’s a political marriage. If I’m married off to some young master from some business conglomerate… Teia Group’s aid would be useful.”
The two men stayed silent at my declaration.
It was the reason I’m being kept alive, and they can’t refute, because it’s the truth.
“So that’s why, show me the balance sheet. Include the secret accounts. Otherwise, I won’t even know which business conglomerate’s proposal I should even accept, right?”
Large amounts of account books were on the noble guest room’s table, and I was greatly perplexed.
The branch manager casually changed the second glass of juice to grape juice. It seems like this branch manager isn’t stupid.
Rather, an idiot wouldn’t be employed as the Tokyo branch manager.
“But man this is bad……”
It was what I expected.
The Far East Bank’s non-performance really wasn’t a joke.
Far East Land Development, engaged in the real estate industry, over-invested in a coastal resort, and Far East Hotels was managing that industry.
It was necessary to cut our losses early here.
Keika Maritime Insurance and Far East Life are also carrying non-performing loans from the bubble and suffering.
With the appreciation of the yen, Keika Chemical Industries and Keika Marine Merchant were somehow avoiding a deficit, and all the companies were being supplemented by Keika Pharmaceuticals.
“Hey. How much loan can I get if I mortgage my house?”
I showed him the devil’s true colors on top of reality being thrust at him.
Arriving at this point, the branch manager did not treat me as a child.
“It is Keikain family’s residence in Tokyo more or less. I think I can get a billion if I include land and building.”
Even if it was rotting, we’re still a business conglomerate.
Although it was before the trunk would fall, there was still a final moment where I could swindle.
“Give me a mortgage and prepare 500 million. That mansion’s going to be mortgaged in a few years anyway.”
Then, I looked at the butler Tachibana Ryuji.
The main house, who acted like they didn’t care about me, decided for the butler to be my guardian.
“I’m going to do bad things from here, but I’m a kid so I can’t earn any trust. I want an adult I can trust, but I wonder if there’s anyone like that~?” 1
When I spoke very unnaturally, the butler Tachibana Ryuji took a deep sigh.
“That part of you really resembles Master. So, what would you have me do?”
All right.
I got a promising ally.
While I’m at it, let’s win over the branch manager as my ally as well.
Far East Bank Tokyo branch manager, Ichijo Susumu. I committed his name to memory.
“Do you know what ‘internet’ and ‘browser’ is?”
Later, this investment by Far East Bank in IT that would bring unbelievable returns would be known as “Far East Bank’s complete reversal homerun from two strikes and two batters down” in the business world, which was rumored to have made up 80 percent of the Keika Group’s earnings for a period.
It is said that Ichijo Susumu, who had a huge promotion for bringing out the results of the Far East Bank taking a leading role in the Big Bang, always visited Keikain Runa’s mansion when there were important investments. 2
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Thanks for the new chapter!
Thanks for the translation!
I wonder if her plan involve profiting off the dotcom bubble?
We’re not there timeline-wise yet.
Thanks for the chapter!
I wonder if the master is her dad or her grand-dad. Thanks for the story!!! It’s so cool!!
— Thanks for the chapter!!
Thanks for the chapter.
So I found something weird.
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“This bad debt isn’t a laughing matter you know. The head family is also thinking about giving up on the bank. Right now, the housing-loan corporation problems have caught on fire, and you understand who’ll be fired, right?”
]
Here, Runa uses ‘housing-loan corporation problems”.
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While the land myth collapsed and everyone was carrying bad debts, the house-loan cooperation problem burst into flames when the National Diet dealt the finishing blow and led to the 1997 financial crisis.
]
But here, she says “house loan cooperation problem”.
Is this a mistake?
Another mistake I found.
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With the appreciation of the yen, Keika Chemical Industries and Keiha Marine Merchant were somehow avoiding a deficit, and all the companies were being supplemented by Keiha Pharmaceuticals.
]
Shouldn’t it be Keika instead of Keiha?
Thanks for finding the typo!