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Chapter 60: Father Sakiko Earned 16.8 Billion Selling Hooks, Historically Dubbed the Billion-Level Hook Sale
🕑 Added 2025-12-07 16:00:11 +0000 UTCTaki, feeling she had been played, decided to get her revenge on Kanzaki Saku.
She planned to use the techniques she had learned from those questionable books, theoretically enough to drive any man wild, to tease Kanzaki Saku to his absolute limit, only to cruelly withdraw the moment he was about to reach his climax.
She wanted to watch Kanzaki Saku beg her desperately for satisfaction, ultimately crawling at her feet like a dog craving a bone, pleading for her pity and charity.
"That's the plan!" A determined smile curved at Taki's lips.
She quickly dried herself with fierce resolve, then put on Kanzaki Saku's oversized pajamas, as if preemptively donning the victor's spoils.
"Kanzaki Saku, you bitch, just you wait and see who will be played in whose palm!"
In the living room, because Taki had soaked for too long, Sagiri, who had been waiting, had fallen deeply asleep in her brother's secure embrace. Kanzaki Saku held his sister with one arm, casually scrolling on his phone with the other, unaware of Taki's desire for revenge.
Just then, his phone screen lit up with a new message from [Shinomiya Kaguya].
While cooking, Kanzaki Saku had been curious about Sakiko Togawa's reason for forming a band, then remembered that Lady Kaguya, as the heir to the Shinomiya Group, surely possessed an intelligence network far beyond ordinary people, and might know some inside information about the Togawa family.
So, with a "what if" attitude, he sent an inquiry to Kaguya.
Yes, the Kaguya here was the sole heir of the Shinomiya family, a "pormax" version of a domineering boss.
Shinomiya Kaguya was very pleased after receiving Kanzaki Saku's message.
Kanzaki Saku had come to her instead of Yukino when he needed something; she saw this as a very good sign.
It wasn't just a simple intelligence inquiry; it was Kanzaki Saku seeking her help, a demonstration of his reliance on her.
As long as she performed flawlessly, she would present a stark contrast to the incompetent Yukino, who only ever entangled Kanzaki Saku in unsavory disputes and couldn't even guarantee his basic safety.
Thus, to demonstrate her strength to Kanzaki Saku and the fact that she was far more reliable than Yukino, Kaguya almost immediately issued a top-priority directive.
The Shinomiya family, with extremely high efficiency, launched intelligence gathering on the Togawa family: capital flows, personnel changes, recent activities, and even some long-forgotten old affairs...
Everything was searched, organized, and presented to the highest standard.
Kaguya's overzealous actions, driven by her desire to outmaneuver Yukino and curry favor with Kanzaki Saku, led people in Japanese Zaibatsu circles to believe that the Shinomiya family was moving against the Togawa family for a period.
Everyone suddenly wanted a piece of the pie, and the Togawa family, before even understanding why, was already subjected to invisible pressure from all sides. Their stock prices and some business operations even experienced significant fluctuations in a short period, and their assets subtly shrunk.
Leaving aside the butterfly effect caused by Kanzaki Saku's questions, let's focus on the information Kaguya found.
In just the time it took for one meal, Kaguya had sent him nearly dozens of gigabytes of encrypted files, packed with various reports, charts, and even video materials.
Fortunately, Kanzaki Saku had his superpower; with [Reversal] activated, he directly received all the messages at quantum speed.
After organizing the chaotic information, Kanzaki Saku found the answer he was looking for.
According to the intelligence gathered by the Shinomiya family, Sakiko Togawa's father, Togawa Sadaharu, seemed to be very popular in certain secret and luxurious circles, once being a highly sought-after "special item."
By leveraging personal relationships in exclusive circles, he built connections, exchanged them for resources and benefits, and earned an estimated 16.8 billion in profits for the Togawa family.
However, Togawa Sadaharu himself, having over-leveraged his personal relationships to such an extent, exhausted his body and abruptly passed away at a party after securing one last profit for the Togawa family.
Sakiko Togawa's mother, Togawa Mizuho, already couldn't hold her head up in social circles because her husband provided intimate services, and spent her days drowning her sorrows in alcohol.
The collapse of their pillar of support dealt her a fatal blow, leaving her completely demoralized and a shadow of her former self.
After Togawa Sadaharu passed away from over-leveraging his personal relationships and Togawa Mizuho became incapacitated, the elderly Togawa Sadaharu had no choice but to re-emerge and take charge of the family.
Originally, Togawa Sadaharu had intended to hold on until Sakiko Togawa matured, then hand over the Togawa family's empire to her.
However, fate once again showed its boomerang nature. Back when Togawa Sadaharu was providing intimate services, he accidentally slipped up and unexpectedly had two illegitimate daughters.
Normally, this might have been an unremarkable entry in the family archives, easily dismissed with some extra money.
But at this delicate moment of power vacuum, these two illegitimate daughters, who possessed Togawa blood and whose maternal families also had some influence, became the most destabilizing factors.
And indeed, they did. These two illegitimate daughters, who had always lurked in the shadows, acutely seized the opportunity.
With the strong support of their maternal families and completely unexpectedly by Togawa Sadaharu, they launched a carefully planned coup, seizing control of the Togawa family in one fell swoop and becoming the new heirs.
Sakiko Togawa was also kicked out of the Togawa family's door like a dog by Uika Misumi.
Upon reading this, Kanzaki Saku put down his phone, sighing that Sakiko Togawa in this world truly had a difficult life.
While Kanzaki Saku still didn't fully grasp what kind of thoughts and feelings Sakiko Togawa was expressing by forming a band under such circumstances, he could understand it.
Perhaps Sakiko Togawa simply wanted to pour her emotions into music and escape reality.
Great rock musicians often have unmentionable pasts; with such experiences, Sakiko in this world might truly become a world-class artist.
After his sigh, Kanzaki Saku continued to look through the Togawa family's intelligence. He was now eager to know which collateral branch had replaced Sakiko Togawa's family.
You say it was done by Uika Misumi and her sister?
Then they are a very loving family, aren't they?
Kanzaki Saku continued to delve deeper, and an even more astonishing family secret came into view.
It turned out that it was a family tradition for the men of the Togawa family to help the family develop by leveraging personal relationships in exclusive circles, and Sakiko Togawa's grandfather, Togawa Sadaharu, had also engaged in this practice back then.
"No wonder that old man always had 'the darkness of the Togawa family' on his lips..." Kanzaki Saku murmured, realizing at that moment just how heavy that darkness truly was.
