Kapitel 2379: A dinner before going home

Before I could leave for the night, Marika brought me to her room upstairs where we cuddled until she eventually calmed down. She was trembling from intense emotion, after all. There was joy, nervousness and also fear. We passed the initial meeting with her aunt with the help of the eccentric old man but we both knew that it was just the beginning.

And now that her aunt would be staying here with her, she'd definitely start monitoring her.

Could we turn her aunt into an ally? That's a possibility considering she had that connection to the old man and he's even willing to take over the deal with them. Even if the Kaneko Family didn't have a construction company in their business empire, they would have plenty of connections that could be used for something like that.

"Alright, see you tomorrow, Marika. Do you want me to pick you up or...?"