“If there’s a guy involved, then it’s not for me”.
“Oh come on, this is like the shame until the end of the generation…”
“Soichiro is the last of his generation.”
In addition, “the end of the generation” does not refer to the descendants, but the next life. And “shame until the end of the generation” means shame until the next life.
Of course, all three of them knew that.
“Speaking of which, are you going to be son-in-law to Tachibana after all?”
Suddenly, he asked Soichiro about the information he had overheard.
He had heard about it through his father.
“That’s what will happen if things go in order.”
“Then Satake’s governorship will be…”
“I’m out.”
Tachibana and Satake do not have a bad relationship.
However, Satake would not want to become a part of Tachibana.
The man who would become Tachibana’s son-in-law could not possibly become the head of Satake, and it was only natural that Soichiro would have to decline the position of the next successor.
“Well, I have many brothers, unlike Tachibana. So, it doesn’t have to be me. I guess I should be the one to go down.”
Soichiro said and stood up, “I’m going to go to the washroom”
After he left the table, Hijiri asked Yuzuru.
“…I don’t know as much about their relationship as you do, but…”
“What’s up?”
“I’ve been wondering for a while if Tachibana and Uenishi are actually ‘a thing’.”
“Well, they’ve been ‘good friends’ for a long time.”
Yuzuru answered vaguely while drinking a grape beverage.
In response, Hijiri nodded, “I see”.
“In other words, that guy… gave up Satake’s governorship because the three of them can be happy together?”
“I suppose so.”
“He’s a surprisingly lovestruck man…”
Satake is a major landowner in the eastern part of Japan, mainly in the Kanto region, and also has extensive connections in the local assembly and civil engineering.
The position of the heir to the governorship will not be something that can be thrown away so easily.
And…
“I’ve been told by Tenka, but is he the one who will be providing seeds to Uenishi? But Uenishi is in Kyoto, and Tachibana is in Tokyo. What’s he going to do?”
“Well, isn’t it just a… duolocal marriage? He can just do it linearly.”
It will be a life of regularly going back and forth between the two houses.
Of course, Ayaka and Chiharu are “good friends,” so it’s not uncommon for them to sleep over at each other’s houses.
“… Poor guy, he’ll never have a specific home to go back to.”
Hijiri’s words contained sympathy and, nevertheless, some respect for the guy who left his house for the woman he loves.
“I guess so.”
As Yuzuru agreed with Hijiri…
“Well, to be honest, Tachibana and Uenishi have more money than Satake.”
“You’re scum after all, aren’t you?”
Hijiri said to Soichiro, who had just returned from the bathroom.
“That’s the first thing you say to your friend when he comes back from the bathroom? …Isn’t it shit which should be said there?”
“This is not a gag. What’s with the feces man routine? Are you in grade school or what?”
“Dirty jokes make your drink..,kohon!… makes your juices taste bad, so stop it.”
You can’t get off… no, you can’t eat with dirty things…