Tokyo Ghost Diary

Sasaki Ayane took Hoshino Gen to a Zen room.

The door of the Zen room was open. In the room filled with sandalwood, there was a huge pure gold Buddha. Sasaki Shinichiro was sitting cross-legged under the Buddha statue, holding his face with one hand and playing with a string of Buddhist beads with the other.

Sasaki Ayane walked into the Zen room and silently knelt down on another futon next to her grandfather.

Gen Hoshino did not go in. He folded his arms and leaned against the door frame, squinting at the scene inside. The focus of his eyes inevitably fell on the string of Buddhist beads in Shinichiro Sasaki's hand.

Shinichiro Sasaki seemed not to notice the arrival of the two of them. He closed his eyes and twirled his rosary beads, sitting on the futon without saying a word.

I don't know how much time passed, until Gen Hoshino was ready to turn around and leave. Then Shinichiro Sasaki suddenly said: "Boy, are you impatient now?"

Gen Hoshino's turning movement paused slightly. He turned around and looked at Shinichiro Sasaki, who had his back turned to him. He still wanted to hear what the old man was going to say.

"I haven't left this house for half a year, but I didn't expect someone as big as you to appear in Tokyo." Sasaki Shinichiro also turned around at this time, although he was still sitting cross-legged on the futon with the same casual posture.

There was an expression on his face that was half a smile but not a smile: "I said you are so young, how can you have such a heavy smell of blood on your body? That thing on your body is really incredible. If you don't pay attention, you kid will... It’s beyond redemption.”

Hoshino Gen's expression did not change at all. This old man was so powerful. It would certainly not be difficult to find out the secret information about him that was no longer a secret.

Shinichiro Sasaki scratched his head and sighed: "Tsk, you really shouldn't let those grandsons make their own decisions. Now the most precious pearl of the Sasaki family is tied to your little boat, which may sink at any time."

"That's not true." Hoshino Gen also spoke, he raised the corner of his mouth and said nonchalantly: "Engagement is not marriage. Whether it is from a legal or human perspective, Sasaki-san and I have no real connection. But even if it is just a nominal relationship, the Hoshino Consortium is already using this bridge to carry out some interest bundling and resource exchange with the Sasaki family, right? Even benefits for both parties may have been generated."

"As long as this continues for a period of time, even if I suddenly die suddenly one day in the future, both of you will have already gained huge benefits. Even if there is no bridge between me and Sasaki-san, you will not have any losses. And the Sasaki family You can even follow the same pattern and re-establish relationships with other families. Anyway, you are not married, so no one can have a second thought, right?"

After saying these words, even Sasaki Ayane, who was facing the Buddha statue, clenched Bai Shengsheng's fists, and his already cold expression became even colder.

On the contrary, Shinichiro Sasaki laughed out loud as if he had heard something unusually interesting. He pointed at Gen Hoshino with a treacherous look on his face: "You kid, you are so cold-faced and dark-hearted. You are so cruel to yourself that you are not human." , for my taste, too for my taste!”

After saying that, he threw the prayer beads in his hand towards Hoshino Gen and said with a big smile: "It's a good suggestion, but the Sasaki family is a moral family. If you can't do that kind of thing, you won't regret what you have decided. I hope you will do the same." Keep your word, if you dare to go back on your word and betray little Ayane, don't blame the old man for turning your back on me."

When Hoshino Gen caught the Buddhist bead, a feeling of yin and yang came into being, and the charm of yin and yang was transmitted from the beads to his whole body.

"There are twelve relics on this thing. They are the objects that a ghost turned into after the death of an eminent monk. The ghost monk did not hurt anyone or do evil. He chanted the Buddha's name for thirty years after his death. He was eroded by pollution and fell into madness. I met that ghost monk, so he converted himself and left this string of beads to me."

"Since then, I have devoted myself to practicing Buddhism for fifteen years, and this string of beads has never left my body." Shinichiro Sasaki looked at Gen Hoshino with a smile: "Just think that this is what my old man prepared in advance for little Ayane. Take the dowry and use it. I heard that you are getting together with those two little guys from the Asaba family and the Takasugi family, and are planning to do something big. If you die outside, the Sasaki family will suffer a lot."

Hoshino Gen stared at the beads for a long time, and finally put it on his left wrist without saying anything.

"Hey." Sasaki Shinichiro laughed inexplicably, and then waved his hand: "Okay, it's getting late, I won't let you have dinner, little Ayane, send your fiancé off." After that, he turned back again , faced the Buddha statue again, and closed his eyes.

Although the corners of Sasaki Ayane's pink mouth twitched slightly, she still stood up obediently and left the Zen room.

Gen Hoshino finally looked back at the back of the very short Shinichiro Sasaki under the huge Buddha statue. In a daze, he seemed to see the figure of another old man. He opened his mouth, but said nothing.

Following Sasaki Ayane all the way out of the Sasaki family's sparsely populated manor, outside the gate of the manor, a driver had been waiting for a long time next to the Rolls-Royce specially used to pick up Sasaki Ayane.

Gen Hoshino got into the car, but when he was about to close the car door, he was pulled by Ayane Sasaki from the outside. The girl looked at Gen Hoshino with a pair of beautiful but not warm eyes, and she said in a cold voice: "Hoshino-san, I don't know if there are differences in ideas between people with special abilities like you and ordinary people, but at least when you get along with me in the future, please respect my ideas a little bit."

After saying that, she closed the car door for Hoshino Gen and turned back to the manor without looking back.

Hoshino Gen watched her disappear through the gate of the manor, and didn't look back until the car started moving.

"Sasaki..." He murmured softly, took off the beads from his wrist and fiddled with them in his hands. After a moment, he closed his eyes, leaned his weight on the back of the chair, and exhaled a long breath.

......

When the car arrived near the downstairs of the apartment where Hoshino's family lived, Gen Hoshino, who was leaning against the car window and looking at the scenery outside in a daze, suddenly noticed a familiar figure in his field of vision.

——Hoshino Rin was dragging his suitcase, wearing a peaked cap, and boarding a taxi with an air of malaise.

That girl... where are you going? Work? It doesn't look like that. Otherwise, how could anyone leave the office's special car and take a taxi instead? Not to mention carrying a suitcase...

As his thoughts turned, the taxi had already driven away. Hoshino Gen's eyes moved slightly. After thinking for a while, he said to the driver who was about to park under the apartment building: "Wait a minute, please follow the taxi just now."

The driver in the driver's seat was stunned. He was the driver of the Sasaki family. Logically speaking, he only needed to fulfill the instructions given to him by the Sasaki family to send Gen Hoshino home, but... Gen Hoshino's He knew his identity very well, so without too much hesitation, he quickly turned the car around, followed Gen Hoshino's command, and followed the yellow taxi.

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