Kujo Mutsumi was scribbling on the all-English document. Being a tycoon in Japan is like that; you don't have to be good at Japanese, but you have to be fluent in English and Chinese.

He was busy for about ten minutes, handed the document to the butler, capped his pen, heaved a sigh of relief, looked up at the two, and said with a smile, "Sorry to keep you waiting."

Minamoto Tamako straightened her back, sat upright, with her hands flat on her knees, looking like a student waiting for praise.

Fushimi Roku's throat was a bit dry. He looked around but didn't see tea, silently giving it a bad review in his mind.

"You two, I'll get straight to the point," Kujo Mutsumi said seriously, "I'm very sorry, it wasn't my intention to have you both hide things from each other at the start."

Minamoto Tamako understood, it was all to test her and Mr. Deer's relationship!

She nodded but said nothing, but Fushimi Roku interjected, looking like he didn't understand: "What do you mean? I completely don't get it, what's this about having us hide things from each other?"

After speaking, Fushimi Roku turned to Minamoto Tamako with a look of exaggerated shock, saying flamboyantly, "Masaka, are you also investigating the Kujo Hikari murder case?"

"..." Minamoto Tamako was baffled.

"..." Kujo Mutsumi kept a smile on his face, but his eyes showed a hint of awkwardness. It wasn't that he personally felt awkward, but he felt awkward for Fushimi Roku.

After two or three seconds of silence in the study, Kujo Mutsumi cleared his throat and admitted, "Yes, I asked Tamako to also participate in the investigation of the case and to keep it a secret from you..."

"That's too much!" Fushimi Roku slapped the table: "We are a couple! How can there be secrets? Didn't what Mr. Kujo said before count at all?"

Once again, Minamoto Tamako was taken aback and couldn't help but ask, "What did he say? What doesn't count?"

Kujo Mutsumi suspected this guy was doing it on purpose. He had heard his daughter mention that this guy was a rogue.

At the time, he didn't take it seriously, thinking after all, he's his granddaughter's boyfriend. How rogue could he be in front of his grandfather... Now it seems he was too careless. This guy's sense of propriety is lower than expected.

If Fushimi Roku kept talking, things might go wrong today. Kujo Mutsumi quickly interrupted, "Of course it counts, I'm not someone who breaks a promise. Tamako, this has nothing to do with you, let's not discuss it now. The focus is on dealing with the aftermath..."

"Wait, what exactly is the matter?" Minamoto Tamako interrupted.

Her curiosity was very strong, and her competitive spirit was a little high, thinking at least the captain can't be weaker than the vice-captain — if the vice-captain gets a little reward, the captain should too!

Why didn't grandpa promise me a reward back then? He even said I was turning my elbow towards the outside...

The more Minamoto Tamako thought about it, the more suspicious she became, her eyes darting back and forth between Fushimi Roku and Kujo Mutsumi's faces.

Kujo Mutsumi had also heard from his daughter that his granddaughter was very curious. At that time, he didn't take it seriously, thinking it was childlike curiosity or a detective's curiosity.

Now it seems, he was too careless again, this granddaughter is hard to fool.

Kujo Mutsumi coughed. What he had said was: 'a task given to the other party alone', 'unrelated to romance and marriage', 'the reward after is negotiable'... but how exactly it was negotiable, he really hadn't thought through.

Because he initially just intended to make a promise that was unlikely to be fulfilled.

Kujo Mutsumi said vaguely, "Well, it's the task I gave to Mr. Fushimi, mainly to test his abilities, not much to say about details, I brought you here to..."

"Wait, wasn't it to test our relationship?" Minamoto Tamako interrupted again, "So does Mr. Deer really get a reward?"

Kujo Mutsumi felt he couldn't avoid it this time. He could only pick up the teacup, take a tactical sip of water, and speak openly, "There is indeed a reward, I did promise. The Kujo family won't wrong someone who has contributed. Whatever amount of money Mr. Fushimi wants, just say..."

"Ten billion." Fushimi Roku blurted out.

Kujo Mutsumi almost spat out his water. He choked and coughed twice, then looked at Minamoto Tamako, hoping his granddaughter could be more sensible and subtly hint at her boyfriend not to ask for an outrageous amount and make it awkward for everyone.

Minamoto Tamako didn't get the hint from her grandfather's eyes. She only used common social understanding to criticize: "That's way too much!"

Fushimi Roku leaned to her ear, whispering: "Don't talk nonsense, don't you know what bargaining means? You give a high price, the other party gives a low price, and you negotiate in between, understand?"

Minamoto Tamako certainly knew what bargaining meant. She tugged at Fushimi Roku's sleeve, whispering back: "We are meeting grandpa, we should leave a good impression, how can we be so commercial? Talking about money is so vulgar!"

Fushimi Roku retorted: "If he agrees with our relationship, he won't fuss over a small matter; if he doesn't agree, we should ask for more money as leverage, so he can compromise about the relationship."

Before Minamoto Tamako could reply, Fushimi Roku seized the opportunity and whispered devilishly in her ear: "I'm fighting for our happiness! On the surface, we're bargaining, but actually, we're fighting for the right to speak! Don't you want to control your own love?"

"I want to..." Minamoto Tamako murmured instinctively, then felt something was off: "Hmm, this feels familiar, didn't Kujo Hikari also say something like that..."

"No, that's not the point."

Fushimi Roku's mouth was almost inside Minamoto Tamako's little ear, she could feel his breath as he spoke: "Think about it, if we had ten billion, we could buy a car to take Sakurako to and from school, right? If we had ten billion, we could buy a nicer single-family house in Tokyo, right? If we had ten billion, you could have different high-end desserts every day..."

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