

Whoever carefully listened to the congratulatory addresses would have understood that those who attended the wedding party were there because they were connected to Sakujiro Mitsuda. Then there were the ward mayor and ward assembly members, the president of the local chamber of commerce, the president of the commerce and industry association, the president of the medical association, the president of the tax accountant's association, and so on. Present at the wedding party were such bigwigs as Lower House members of the Diet, and Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly members. It looked more like a party held at a first-class hotel in the city center with the purpose of introducing Kensuke and his wife to the local people. The wedding party was exceptionally lavish for a small company like Mukoujima Transport. A wedding party for the heir to a small business company was included in its annual events.īecause Mukoujima Transport had turned into just a property management company, it no longer had important customers with whom the company had to curry favor in order to maintain its business. It was around 1980 when an old-world tradition still prevailed. The wedding party for Kensuke and Shino was organized by Mukoujima Transport. If the rumor was true, she wondered what her husband kept hidden deep down in his mind. She suspected that the rumor of the relationship between her husband and Shino was true. Whenever Saori heard her husband and Kensuke's father, Shuichi Kajita, joyfully talking about Kensuke and Shino, she could not help feeling it was unconvincing.

Kensuke started seeing an older woman, Shino, immediately after he entered the company.

CHAPTER 24: Evidence of Foul PlayĬontinuing from Chapter 23: Did her nephew Kensuke have the makings of the president of the company her husband built, Saori once asked her husband. Book cover, "Minority Shareholders" by Shin Ushijima.
