Chương 85: first main cast encounter's
The Takagi estate travel didn't take more than ten minutes during them; Souichiro learned a little more about Alex.
"Excuse my rudeness, but you state to be British and Japanese, yet your features seem not to share any of those origins." State him, looking at Alex general complexion.
"No harm was done, and it quite understandable, my clan hail from the northern lands, we stay 'pure' since the colonisation of our land, in the middle of the northern sea. We are only considered British due to the service to the crown in 954. The funny thing is we helped the Saxons against our 'own' as some would say; they wouldn't be further from the truth." Snorted Alex, thinking back at the text he read from his ancestral home. To his surprise, the world history of this world was the same, and like his previous clan, the world had no idea of their existence other than the British crown. "Anyway, since then, we retired from the world and let the other war against themselves.
We are hunter, a thing the world seems to misinterpret as mercenaries and trade our services for gold. During the last millennium and even before that, our clan branch had spread across the globe, forming local power. In Japan, some of our own had descendants still know until now, Amakuni and Masamune Goro are among them." Alex could see the eyes of Souichiro widen at the name of two of the most famous bladesmiths of the past. "While we are hunter, it's not all we are; as I told you, you are also crafter and keeper of past knowledge."
Souichiro stays pensive. While the young at his side may lie to impress him, boasting such a thing in front of a know ultra-nationalist wasn't wise, as he could make his life difficult for him here, and he knows Alexander to be anything but a braggart. No, the young man standing in front of him was the same as him and his Sensei, a warrior and a cold weapon practitioner.
"I know it can be difficult to trust the words of a stranger, that why..." Stared Alex, before taking his bag on his knee and rummage inside, before retrieving a sheathed blade, much to Souichirou surprise, knowing how much difficult it was to be allowed a blade in public, less making them enter the country legally." You aren't without knowing that Damascus steel forging hidden process had been lost throughout the age, right?"
Understanding where he wanted to go, The politic leader breath shortened while slowly unsheath the extended blade. As the first few centimetres reveal, his breath stays stuck in his throat. While he wasn't a bladesmith, as owner and practitioner, Souichirou knows too well the difference between a blade made for slicing and a fake, decorative one.
The well kept and clear blade told him that the blade wasn't a relic but an authentic forged blade. This was all he needed to trust Alex words. The young may not be personally aware of all their secret, but it was evident in his eyes that his clan was ancient and had powerful connections to obtain and safeguard those secrets.
Parting difficulty with the talons short sword, Souichirou gaze turned more severe than before, his impression of Alex having considerably risen.
"You said that you only accept gold? Is it possible to hire your clan to craft orders?"
Knowing what the man wanted, Alex nodded.
"I can contact the clan head and should be able to pass an order. While we kept knowledge, we have nothing else against fulfilling an order, as long as no secret is asked. I may need your help for a task in the guise of payment."
Nodding, Souichiro said. "As long as it in my capacity, I will." For the man, it was comprehensible that Alex would ask for payment for contacting his clan head; without his knowledge, he wouldn't be aware that such people still existed here.
"Due to personal reason, I had to hurry away from our place. While I own those land, I don't have any idea of their state. I would like to impose on your help to prospect in the following day or two. By that time, I would surely have a rough understanding of the land state and repair its need. That you would also show me that plot of land, you are interested in buying back from me."
"If it just this, it a simple matter." Relaxed, Souichiro, with his contact, could easily arrange for a team to look at the state, and as he said, look at the shrine at the same time.
~~~
As both exited the car that stopped in the front of the estate entrance, Alex didn't bat an eye at the mansion's shocking size when one knows that the family count only three members. Even with the flock of servants milling around, the place was empty most of the time.
Following Souichirou led, Alex entered a luxurious dining room.
"As I was the one to invite you here, the least I could do was to offer you to share our table, Evans-san."
"Thank you, Takagi-san; the gesture is much appreciated, it had been quite a strenuous day, and I hadn't anything to eat since this yesterday diner."
"Indeed." Raised the man a brow, thinking how tiring passing the night in a plane can be. Alex softly smiled, easily making the man misconception.
Shortly after they entered the room, someone else arrived. Looking at the opening door, Alex took the sight of Takagi Yuriko. Like Souichirou, she had the same appearance that her counterpart, Light purple hairs and eyes. She was half a head smaller than her husband, around 165cm tall.
The red formfitting dress made him think of a social high-class party type rather than a family meal. Turning back to Souichirou, he asked.
"Did I interrupted something?"
Seeing the stranger in their dining room, Yuriko rejoins her husband side while taking Alex sight.
"No, my wish had a habit of wearing a formal dress at home." Turning his gaze to his wife, he introduced the two."Yuriko, this is Alexander Evans. Evans-san turned to be the owner of the land Shido attempted to defraud.
I gather that Miyamoto-san investigation will be much smoother with the recent event if they don't take the case from his hand. At least it would ease the pressure Shido had tried to put on him and stop the investigation."
Alex immediatly perked about the news.'Here we go. If he only started the investigation, that means the main casts should be still in their first years, second for Rei and Saeko. Ichirou must have already put pressure on Rei, through his son, to attain her father. She may still need to relapse a year, as we are nearly at the end of the school year.
If I'm right, the outbreak should be between seven to nine months, as winter was near. This will leave us enough time to plan for things.'
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Alex broke out of his thoughts when a third person irrupted in the dining room. When he saw the petite girl, Alex couldn't help but shake his head internally.
Saya Takagi was short, compared to Alex, standing at a meagre 155cm, nearly half a meter less than Alex. She seems slightly younger than her anime counterpart, giving Alex reason to think he was right. Even at this young age, she was already displaying her dynamic figure.
Those curves were only bolstered by the fact that she was wearing a tight pink tank top, who's helm stop a little higher than her navel, and a pair of black short, letting her astonishing long leg bare to sight.
'She already careless about her clothes. She may be in her home, but many of her father men walk around every time of the day. This will end badly one day.' Comment Alex, with CS nodding in the background, sharing his thought. 'All that leave was to see what type of mindset she had.'
Alex' question rapidly when the girl spoke, seemingly not seeing Alex on the other side of the table, partially hidden from the open door.
"Papa! Weren't you supposed to be at a meeting with the Mayor?" Asked her upfront, her arms sliding under her chest, inadvertently pushing the still growing budding E cup, showing a little of the brash attitude she grows up with when she started to be called a genius.
"I was, but some new elements showed that there shouldn't have been any reason for this meeting." Before turning back to Alex, Responded him curtly, making his daughter aware that they weren't alone.
"Evans-san, please sit; lunch would be brought shortly."
Alex nodded while looking at Saya in the corner of his eyes. Contrary to what he expected, she kept quiet, only gazing at him curiously. He thought she would immediatly ask who he was and why he was present here, but she didn't. This gave Alex some hope that she wasn't exactly like her counterpart and more likeable. Even if he knew it was a facade she showed for strangers and those she thought inferior, he wished not to clash with her so soon.
Once you passed her external cold and brash attitude, Saya was, in fact, a nice girl, and he was expecting her to be.
~~~
Once everyone was seated, the Mother-daughter duo side-to-side, facing Alex, while Souichirou sat at the table head, servants started to bring the first meal course.
"Evans-san, how came you were present for this meeting? From your name, you shouldn't be Japanese, and I miss to see the reason." Asked Yuriko, making Saya perks, she too was curious of the stranger presence.
"As I said to your husband on the why it turned out that the land that Shido attempted to poach is part of my inheritance. As such, those land are mine, as I share a common ancestry with the previous owner and found myself to be of Japanese nationality.
Neither the mayor nor the promotor and Shido were aware was that when they overtake those lands illegally, they breached the Act of 1986 passed between the British government and the Japanese one. As they overtook foreign land and built what account to an administrative construct, this could count as a war declaration."
Both females let out a gasp at the thought that a local politician could be the reason for a war between the two nations, while the house's man grunted at the remaining.
"Thankfully for us, I had a special status in the British government. An international trial for the culprit and the transfer of those lands as an embassy, the British government will overlook the aggression."
A smirk lightly drawn on Yuriko's lips as she knows that Shido Ichirou was finished. The man had been a thorn in her husband side for years, but now, even he wouldn't escape unscratched by the trial. As it was an international one, he wouldn't be able to count on his political ally to help him.
She was also curious about the young man's status in the British government to be able to swing things this way.
"How came you can be elected as a representant for the British government?"
"Other than the fact that those are my lands? Simple, in reality, I have no tie with their government. My clan had long since received an autonomous status, and they owned us a debt. For all intents and purpose, I am my government, as the international court had recognised the charges and started the procedures."
As the bomb dropped, both Yuriko and Souichirou eyes widen, understanding that they were essentially hosting a state leader. Saya, too was shocked, but something seems not right to her until it clicked.
"Shouldn't it be your clan head rather than you?"
Alex smiled at her when she was the only one of the three to catch on to this." Your daughter isn't just a pretty head. Yes, it should, but since my clan had been exterminated by a hostile clan around three hundred years ago, only my family had remained. Where it had happened fifteen years before, it would have been my mother, but now, as the sole member of my clan, I am the clan head an thus my own state leader!" Widely grinned him at them.
Saya, who first blushed at the honest and straightforward compliant, turned shocked at the new and blurted." You're orphan?!" Before, the withering glare of her mother made her realise what she says. Her eyes widen as she clamps her hands on her mouth. "Sorry, I didn't mean...!"
"It's alright, I never know them; they were assassinated when I was barely fifteen months old; I kept no memories of them." Partially lies him, making the family already white complexion further more pitiable. Only Souichiro kept a straight face, but Alex could see the muscles' clenching on the man hands and jaw.
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