38 Not worth the trouble. (2/2)

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I slowly turned my head towards Eugene and glared at him.

Now I know why the door was intentionally unlocked.....this guy planned this!

He looked away with a tiny grin.

Yeah, okay, this calls for war.

I smiled brightly at Mr. Rose. ”Hello sir, it's a pleasure to meet you again.”

He smiled back and spoke in English instead. ”The pleasure is all mine. I see that you've grown up wonderfully, you look just like your mother! I hope your English hasn't gotten rusty.”

I kept my smile even though I really wanted to punch this guy. I don't like him at all, I never have.

”Thank you for the compliment. How was the trip here?” I spoke this time in English as well.

”It was wonderful, Japan still does have some nice places even if it's...Japan. How's my son doing in school?”

My brothers and my father frowned a bit but quickly reverted their faces to neutral. This is what I hate about him. Eugene hates his father too, hence why he even went as far as changing his own last name. David Rose has something against Japan because of an incident that had happened in the past. Although he doesn't mind my family since we lived in America, I can tell that he's sitting far from the Prime Minister on purpose.

The reason he is best friends with my father is because they both knew each other from university and became close after being roommates for years.

I pretended to think for a moment before answering him. Getting a bad feeling, Eugene paled and opened his mouth to cut in but I spoke before he could.

”Eugene's doing quite well at school...however he still has his old habit of attracting girls wherever he goes. He seems to be interested in quite a few. You know....your son is really popular.”

Mr. Rose frowned and glared at his son. Back in America he once arranged for Eugene to marry a girl but Eugene didn't agree. I was one of the candidates before I convinced him otherwise....I mean, who still arranges marriages these days.

I bet he doesn't like the fact that Eugene was now swarmed with girls in Japan.

”Is that so.....seems like we will be having a nice talk later, Eugene?”

”.....Of course, father.” He bitterly answered through gritted teeth.

That's what you get.

Finally grasping the situation, my dad spoke up and changed the topic.

”Yuri stop standing and sit down. We were simply talking about future plans for Sapphire. Since Mr. Rose is the vice-president of Amber he simply wanted to ask the Prime Minister for confirmation on the newest update coming out soon.”

As the adults kept talking about the complications surrounding Sapphire's future update. I obediently sat down next to Toku and the Prime Minister's son.

”Hello, you can just call me Tai since we've met before. Is it alright if I call you Yuri?”

I looked over at Tai and smiled.

”Yeah sure, I don't like formalities anyways. It's nice to see you again, I believe the last time we met was at the Prime Minister's birthday party last year?”

He nodded. ”Your father is amazing, to be part of Amber's Marketing Committee is quite an outstanding achievement. But you know, Kai Suzuki over there is also part of the committee and he's only in his twenties.”

I guess they don't know the Marketing Committee Head is actually my brother and my father is the Board of Committee President. My father never shows his face to the public, he always gets someone else to take his place.

Since they're still clueless, we probably still don't fully trust the Prime Minister's family, this meeting must just be an official business deal.

During last year's party, my father only dragged me along and privately introduced me to the Prime Minister since both my brothers were busy. Apparently his excuse was that I needed more 'exposure' to the outside world. That was the only time I ever went to any social gathering since coming to Japan. The Prime Minister's family are the only people in Japan that know I'm related to my father.

Now that I think about it, my brothers have never been introduced to anybody along with my father. I'm sure they will figure out good excuses to tell their acquaintances about their changed last names.

Everything is so complicated that I think my brain is going to shut down soon.

Right, let's just leave manipulating the information all up to my family. Apart from school I never go outside and it's not like I've changed my last name.

Just as I was about to pull out my phone to kill time, Toku leaned over and whispered. Tai knew that we were already acquainted so he didn't show an ounce of suspicion.

”Big Sis.....If you're going to come to a party you should wear something more fitting for the occasion. Next time you decided to barge into a formal gathering tell me ahead of time and I'll fix something up for you. I know you don't like wearing fancy clothes but if you keep this up you'll ruin father's reputation.”

I sighed miserably at the thought of wearing dresses again and reluctantly nodded my head.

After everything I've gone through today, just getting Ryan's information isn't enough at all.