Chapter 98: Chapter 97: Preparations

Once we arrive at TGR, I see our security teams waiting for us at the entrance. Getting out of the car, I remove my access card from my purse as we walk over to them.

“Don’t tell me you have been standing out here in this heat all this time?”

Jason laughs and tells me, “No, Sora. We’ve been waiting in the cars until tracking showed you were getting close, so we’ve only been here a few minutes.”

“Good. Nonetheless, I imagine you all are thirsty. Come on, we’ll get you something cold to drink while I have my meeting with Mirai.”

“Thank you, Sora. Something cold would really hit the spot.”

Once we enter the outer office, I say, “Good afternoon ladies. How are you today?”

Smiling at me, Akari answers, “We’re doing fine. How are all of you?”

“We’re great, but our security team could use something cold to drink. Would one of you mind getting them something?”

Mai says, “I’d be happy to.”

I look at her and say, “Thank you.” Looking at our security team, I continue, “Why don’t all of you get comfortable out here and enjoy your drinks?”

“Of course, Sora.”

Turning around, I enter my office to find Mirai at her desk. “Good afternoon Mirai.”

“Hey Sora. Good afternoon.”

Chinatsu and I sit on the loveseat while Honoka and Sofi sit on the couch. “How did it go with the party planner?” I ask.

“It hasn’t yet. I called them Monday, but the earliest they could come is this afternoon at 2:00.” She glances at her computer. “In fact, she should be here at any moment.”

“They must be quite good to be that busy.”

She nods. “They are and they come very highly recommended.”

“Fantastic. They sound like just the people we need for this. I’d like this to go off without a hitch and be a lot of fun for everyone.” I look at my sisters. “Would anyone like some coffee? I know I would.”

They nod and say, “Sounds good.”

“Mirai, would you have Akari bring in some Mocha coffee?”

“Sure.” She presses the intercom button and when Akari answers, she asks her to bring in some Mocha coffee for all of us.

“Mirai, I need you to do me a favor.”

“Alright. What is it?”

“Two actually, but the first one is I need the party planner to sign a non-disclosure agreement about my identity. I’m trying to keep that under wraps. I don’t know if you’ve seen the news and society programs, but there’s a huge amount of interest in finding out who I am. I’m afraid if we don’t do that they could potentially let it slip who the CEO is here.”

“Okay, easy enough. Hestia, would you draw up a non-disclosure agreement about that and print it out for me?”

“Certainly, Mirai.”

“Thank you. What’s the other one?”

“I’d like you to act as if you’re the CEO.”

“I don’t really mind, but if you don’t mind my asking, why?”

“A lot of reasons, but I suppose it’s mainly because I’d like to lead a normal life. If it got out that I was the CEO my life would be an utter mess. The kids at school would either treat me strangely or try to get things out of me.”

“No problem. I’ll happily do that for you.”

Smiling exuberantly, I tell her, “Thank you so much.”

I’ve noticed Honoka has been fidgeting for a while now, which is really unusual for her. When she suddenly stands up, I look at her. She looks a little uncomfortable. “Sora, can I talk to you for a moment?”

“Of course.” Looking back to Mirai, I say, “We’ll be right back.”

Following Honoka into the office suite, I close the door behind us and she turns to me and tells me, “Sora, my breasts and hips ache badly.”

Sighing loudly, I think, ‘Great. The nanites are making changes to her like they did to us.’

“Nee-chan, the nanites are probably making some adjustments to you. They seem to adjust the host's body to what they consider ideal. If you remember they did it to Chinatsu. They did it to me as well, but that was before you were with us. Both of our hips and breasts were made bigger, although I can't really see them doing that to you. This is nothing more than a guess, but they could be regressing your physical age a little. If so, then I believe they will make your breasts and hips a bit smaller. If this lasts the same amount of time as our changes did, then this should last a couple of days while they make the changes and your hair will probably grow out significantly.”

“I wouldn’t mind smaller breasts because these are uncomfortably large… This isn’t going to affect me like the fertility treatment did, is it?”

“No. At least, it didn’t for Chinatsu. She was achy for a couple of days, remember?”

“I remember, but I thought I’d ask to make sure.”

I glance at my watch and tell her, “Alright, let’s get back out there. The party planner should be here soon.”

Heading back out into the office, I see the coffee has been delivered. After I sit down, I scoot forward to pour some coffee into a cup, and then add sugar and cream. Sitting back with my cup, I take a sip.

The intercom chimes and Mirai answers it with a, “Yes?”

Akari replies, “Mitsuki Endo from Tooki is here.”

“Please, send her in.”

A few moments later she knocks on the door, and Mirai calls out, “Come in.”

She enters, coming over to Mirai’s desk. “Welcome, Mrs. Endo. Please have a seat. I’m Mirai Kuroki.”

As she is sitting down, she replies, “Pleased to meet you. I’m Mitsuki Endo from Tooki.”

“You as well. I hate to start off on a note like this, but before we can proceed I need you to sign a non-disclosure agreement concerning the identity of our CEO. There’s a lot of interest in finding out who they are and we don’t want you to reveal that detail.”

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“Alright, but I don’t see that it’s all that big of a deal.”

“Our CEO disagrees. I’ll be blunt, the penalty clause in this will bankrupt your company, so be sure about this before you sign it.”

“Why would you include something like that?”

“Our CEO values their privacy. Including a penalty clause of ¥500 million guarantees no one from your company will even consider revealing who they are. Look, I doubt you or anyone else in your company would ever do that, but we have to be sure.” Mirai slides the document over to her. “Read that over and sign it if you agree with the terms. I know your company wants the contract since they stand to make a tidy sum with this event. Whether we proceed with this now depends on if you sign it or not.”

She picks up the document and begins to read it. Fifteen minutes later, she finishes. Picking up a pen, she signs it and then pulls out her seal and stamps it. Afterward, she slides it back across the desk to Mirai.

Mentally breathing a sigh of relief that she signed it. I stand up and take a couple of steps over to her.

Offering my hand, I tell her, “Hello, I’m Sora Kobayashi. I own and am the CEO of TGR.”

She stares at me in disbelief. A few moments later she looks at Mirai and asks, “Is this a joke?”

I sigh loudly. Why is this always everyone's reaction? Whatever. “Mrs. Endo?”

She looks back to me. “Yes?”

“You know AI’s can’t lie, right?”

“Of course. They are allowed to not answer a question, but lying is prohibited by their core programming.”

I smile. Good it makes it easier since she knows. “Hestia, would you introduce yourself and tell her what you are?”

“Certainly, Sora. Hello Mrs. Endo. I’m Hestia, a level two administrative AI.”

She looks at Mirai again. “You have a level two AI?”

Mirai nods and says, “Yes, she makes running this place a lot easier for all of us… Hestia, who’s the current CEO of TGR?”

“Sora Kobayashi.”

Mrs. Endo turns back to look at me so quickly I hear the vertebrae pop in her neck. I tell her, “If you have any doubt, you can go ask any of the assistants outside. I promise you that this isn’t a joke.”

She smiles and shakes her head. “You know, I’ve been telling myself for a long time to stop making assumptions. I apologize. Let’s try this again. Pleased to meet you, Ms. Kobayashi. I’m Mitsuki Endo.”

“The pleasure is all mine and please, call me Sora.”

She shakes my hand and tells me, “Then it’s Mitsuki… So, back to the business at hand. My boss simply told me that you want to have an event here. Do you have anything specific in mind?”

I move back to sit on the loveseat and then reply, “Umm… Nothing overly specific. I’ve got a general outline.”

She nods. “Those always help, we can flesh it out from that.”

Smiling, I tell her, “Basically, this will be for…” I look at Mirai. “How many employees do we have again?”

“Slightly more than 2000.”

“Thanks Mirai.” I look back at Mitsuki. “Alright you heard, 2000+ people. The plan is to start it around noon on Friday. From noon to six will be family time. Six to midnight will be for the adults. We will be providing alcohol for them too. I’d like to hire a small carnival company to have rides for the kids. Sorry I got ahead of myself… I’d basically like this set up as a kind of festival. You know the usual festival games booths, but we will be having carnival rides as well. Then the typical festival food stalls. I’d like to have tents with seating around tables for everyone, so they aren’t out in the hot sun all day. I’d also like live music from noon to midnight when we’ll be ending the party. We’ll probably need a dance floor or two as well. Right now, those are the only ideas I have.”

She nods.”Alright. When you say typical gaming booths, do you mean: Goldfish, super ball, yo-yo and toy scooping; target shooting; ring toss; string pull lottery; and mask sales booths?”

Smiling, I reply, “Exactly those. I’d like the parents and children to be able to have fun.”

“Okay. Those are easy enough. Now for the food stalls. Normally when we do this kind of thing, the food booths usually offer: Yakitori, Takoyaki, Yakisoba, Ikayaki, Unagi, Karaage, grilled corn, and Jaga Bata. For sweets they usually have: Watame, Crepes, Choco Bananas, Kakigori, Dango, and Taiyaki. Is that enough food booths?”

I glance at Mirai, who nods, then back to Mitsuki. “That sounds perfect. Plenty of selections so everyone should be able to find something they like. I’d like you to add hamburgers and hot dogs to that as well.”

“Alright. Now you mentioned live music. What kind?”

“Pop, slow songs and the like that people can dance to.”

“Okay. Now most bands won’t want to play for twelve hours, so would using two work?”

“Of course.”

“Good. The dance floors, tables, chairs, and tents are no problem at all. I imagine you’ll want a small stage for the band?”

“Definitely. I also plan on giving a short speech at the beginning of the event as well.”

“Well, I think I have a general outline of what you want. I’ll flesh it out some more and send you a plan in an email no later than Monday morning. If you want to make any changes, send me an email back with the specifics and I’ll do my best to incorporate them.”

“Thank you. That will work perfectly since I promised my department heads I’d have an outline of the timeline and events for the party by Monday evening.”

“If you have any more ideas you want added you can message me up to Wednesday and we can include them easily. If you wait until Thursday it will be a lot harder, but we might still be able to do it.”

“I don’t really see that happening, but we will keep it in mind.”

She stands up and tells us, “Alright, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to head back to the office and begin getting this planned out.”

“Of course. Thank you for coming today, Mitsuki.”

She tells me, “My pleasure, Sora. Have a nice day everyone.” Turning around, she leaves the office.

I grin as I look at Mirai. “That was anticlimactic. I thought for sure she would make a big fuss over signing the nondisclosure agreement.”

“They stand to make several hundred thousand yen on this, so of course she would sign it. They’ll stick by it as well. They have a reputation as a company who’s very good at being discreet.”

Nodding, I tell her, “Since that’s finished, I’m going home, so I’ll see you Monday. Have a good afternoon Mirai.”

“You as well Sora.”

Holding my hand out to Chinatsu, I tell my sisters, “Alright ladies, let’s go home.”

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