"Lord Daniel, the hardcover books you requested have been purchased." Hayasaka Nao placed a small briefcase in front of Daniel.
"Oh, thanks, Ms. Nao." Daniel's attention finally shifted from the screen to the briefcase in Hayasaka Nao's hand.
Opening the briefcase, two hardcover books were revealed before Daniel's eyes.
"Journey to the West" and "Journey to the West".
One was in Chinese, and the other was in Japanese.
Originally, they were both kept in private exhibition halls in their respective countries, but now they have both been bought by the Shinomiya Family and delivered here.
After all, Daniel didn't know what holy relic should be used to summon Sanzang.
He could only use "Journey to the West" to make up the numbers.
These were all preparations Daniel made for summoning Sanzang after wandering back to the fate world in the future.
And that giant recreational vehicle that Daniel previously requested Kaguya Shinomiya to deliver was now being rushed to production using the full energy of the Shinomiya Conglomerate.
After all, Shikoku Untaka had already exited the game, and the entire Shinomiya Conglomerate was currently being run by Albedo and Aura.
As for Shinomiya Ganan, who was still recuperating in the hospital... to avoid him being angered to death by this news, no one dared to tell him the truth.
Although, from the revelations Shikoku Untaka had dropped earlier, he had already pretty much guessed the situation the Shinomiya Family was currently facing.
Therefore, by yesterday, Shinomiya Ganan was already unable to speak or write.
He couldn't even manage the future distribution of his inheritance.
And Shinomiya Oko, Seiryu Shinomiya, and Shikoku Untaka, who had already publicly announced their renunciation of the future inheritance of the Shinomiya Family, were all out of the game.
In other words, once the old man passed away, the only heir to the Shinomiya Family and the Shinomiya Conglomerate would be Kaguya Shinomiya.
In less than half a day, this news had already spread among the high-ranking business and political circles in Japan.
Kaguya Shinomiya, who was at school, was even more affected, being besieged by most of the Shuchiin students, all just to make an appearance in front of her.
Besides this, Kaguya Shinomiya was also bombarded by phone calls.
Many people from the branch families of the Shinomiya Family were calling to pledge their loyalty to her, and many more had already boarded planes or Shinkansen trains, heading toward Tokyo.
"Things have reached this point; if the President and I announce our relationship, will there still be obstacles?" In an extremely hidden place, Kaguya Shinomiya sought advice from Ai Hayasaka.
"There will be," Ai Hayasaka nodded and replied. "Ambitious people will go to great lengths to place more outstanding boys in front of you, Kaguya-chan, in order to climb higher. They will also try every possible way to smear the President, drive a wedge between you, and might even dispatch an Assassin to take action against the President."
"Ugh..." It was all the dark tactics of the upper echelons.
Kaguya Shinomiya bit her fingernail.
"In that case, the only way is indeed to sell off the Shinomiya Conglomerate and turn myself into an ordinary rich, beautiful girl."
"That's possible, but not right now," Ai Hayasaka reminded her. "We still need the financial resources and influence of the Shinomiya Conglomerate to develop the recreational vehicle requested by the guests."
"And we also have to wait patiently for when Lady Albedo gets bored of playing with the Shinomiya Conglomerate and returns it to you."
"That's true," Kaguya Shinomiya nodded in agreement. "By the way, Ai-chan, do you think if I also announce that I'm giving up my right to inherit the Shinomiya Family's estate along with my eldest brothers, would the Shinomiya Conglomerate just belong to Albedo directly?"
"No, have you forgotten about the shares?" Ai Hayasaka reminded her speechlessly. "Although most of the shares of the Shinomiya Conglomerate are held by the main Shinomiya Family, the branch families still have some."
"Unless you want to transfer all the shares you are entitled to inherit to Albedo, the Shinomiya Conglomerate will still nominally belong to the Shinomiya Family."
"Tch, what a pain," Kaguya Shinomiya clicked her tongue impatiently. "The people of the Shinomiya Family really should all be hung from lampposts."
"Compared to that, I'm more curious why the bald ones and the others publicly announced they were giving up their inheritance rights to the Shinomiya Family," Ai Hayasaka murmured quietly.
"Probably Albedo and the others pulled some strings," Kaguya Shinomiya's expression darkened a bit. "It seems my eldest brothers never actually escaped their grasp."
"Achoo—" Shalltear couldn't help but sneeze.
She incidentally poured the tea she was holding, which had spilled a few drops, all at once onto the minions in the shadows on the ground.
The workload of monitoring all the high-level personnel of the Shinomiya Family and the Shinomiya Conglomerate during this period had been quite exhausting for them.
"Hehehe, everything is within the master's grasp."
A bewildered Daniel was in the room, looking at the hardcover "Journey to the West" with Artoria.
Well, the Japanese one was abandoned.
Couldn't read it.
In the future, its only purpose would be as a synthetic material for the holy relic of Sanzang in the summoning ritual.
Although he didn't know if these two copies of "Journey to the West" could summon Sanzang.
Anyway, it's better to be prepared.
If it doesn't work, at worst, once he arrives in a fate-type world, he'll just go and steal Sanzang's holy relic on the spot.
Come to think of it, Daniel was careless.
When he was with Sanzang back then, he should have just taken something from her to use as a holy relic.
The Shinomiya Conglomerate's assets shrank significantly in the short period that followed.
Although many people tried to take big bites of the slightly declining Shinomiya Conglomerate, they were easily repelled by Albedo, who had already mastered this era.
Incidentally, during the counterattack, she also bit off quite a bit of flesh from the opponents, feeding it back to the Shinomiya Conglomerate.
The result was that the various technologies for the recreational vehicle Daniel requested were easily cracked.
After all, having to consider nothing but research—for those scientists who were obsessed with research, there was nothing more attractive than this.
Of course, the most important thing was that the money was provided generously.
Thus, at the end of the second month after Daniel descended into this world, the vehicle that Kaguya Shinomiya had promised was ready for delivery.
Albedo began to gradually return the Shinomiya Conglomerate to Kaguya Shinomiya, and Kaguya Shinomiya took this opportunity to sell off the Shinomiya Conglomerate's industries on a large scale.
In the end, only one ordinary factory remained under Kaguya Shinomiya's name.
The previous owner of this factory had the surname Shirogane.
It was one that Kaguya Shinomiya intended to return to the Shirogane family.
After all, for her, the final obstacle between her and Shirogane Miyuki was probably just this factory belonging to the Shirogane family that had been extorted by her eldest brother.
"The driver is me, Aura!"
After the new vehicle was delivered, Aura immediately occupied the driver's seat.
She and Albedo were the ones who benefited the most from this world among the group.
At the very least, as long as she used illusion magic to hide her ears, no one in human society would notice that she was a non-human.
"Becoming more like a human?" Although Shalltear felt a bit uneasy about this change, seeing Daniel, that uneasiness instantly turned into unwillingness.
In order to become someone more worthy of standing by the master's side, she had to work even harder!
[Log 11: Part-time job earnings, contributed by Kaguya Shinomiya... Golden Rule A. Do you think you still need to worry about not having money to live in the next world?]
Next world recruitment: fate/Apocrypha", "KonoSuba", "Chained Soldier"
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