Yumiko helped Giorno to his feet while she tried to explain the situation to her bodyguard without looking like a madwoman who suddenly changed her opinion.
- The button was pressed by mistake - she explains without even blushing, as she finished helping Giorno stand up - please next time if the subject gives up, don't hit him.
- It is not what you had told us before - replied one of the men
Yumiko sighed in exasperation and just said
- Please, get out of here, I'll call you if I really need you
- Something more architect - said one of the men- I'm glad to see that her wounds weren't as serious as we thought
The man had not overlooked this strange recovery, however, he did not give it more importance, his job was to protect the daughter of the patriarch, who belongs to the Yazuka family from the east.
- Thank you - the woman replied curtly - now you can go
Giorno adjusted his suit and with an arrogant smile asked
- How did that new drug suit you?
Yumiko walked to the desk and sat on it, reviewed her body in detail and took the knife from Giorno to remove the cast, he came over and took the knife from her, then with an extremely deft movement she easily removed
- I can't believe it - Yumiko told her while she incredulously went through her wounds one by one - my body feels even better than the day before the accident, it doesn't make sense.
- I'll explain my plan - Giorno sat down and crossed his legs, while Yumico stared at him. In just a couple of days Giorno had become the most interesting person in her environment.
Giorno continued speaking - during the toast we will give a tasting of this liquid to the sick and elderly most millionaires of the city, if they want more, we will let them know that they can only get it if they are part of our select group.
- He talks about the group that the mayor wants to form - Yumiko reflected - is that the reason why you wants a secret meeting place in the building?
- That's right, only it is not the mayor who wants to form the group
- Do not? - Yumiko got nervous, who was behind such an incredible drug? No, the real question was who was Giorno really serving? - So who is behind all this?
- Who is behind everything is me, of course.
- What? You mean to tell me that you have control of the drug and run the mayor like a puppeteer?
- That's right, and I tell you this for one reason only
- And what would that be?
- I don't know how to explain it - Giorno reflected - you generate a strange confidence in me, as if I had the impulse to turn you into my right hand. With you I feel that my plans will come to fruition
- In other words, just because of a hunch you reveal something so important to me and propose to be your right hand?
The woman didn't really know if Giorno's arrogance made him an idiot or perhaps he was such an incredible strategist that he had revealed the necessary just to to prove her. To tell the truth, something inside her told that this man did not have nothing of an idiot, however, she had many doubts.
Yumico was direct and asked
- When you say that you want me as second in command, what do you mean? What is your real objective, Mister de Santoro?
- My objective?
Giorno was silent for a moment, to tell the truth, he was unsure of the answer. Recovering his family was undoubtedly one of his goals and to achieve it he had to be someone important and wealthy, but Aron's words echoed in his mind; " Rouse is not a woman you can fall in love with money ".
If that were true then everything would be meaningless ... The real question is, does he really do it for his family? Deep down he knew that he does it for himself. Giorno had gotten used to being the Demon King, a great ruler who could not conceive a world where he was not a king.
Then a smile spread across him face
- My goal is to rule this world
Yumiko was stunned as Giorno continued speaking
- I want to control from the largest corporations in the world to the countries. If you accompany me I promise you will not be bored for a minute, I will show you the rise of a powerful empire.
Giorno stood up as he extended his hand to Yumiko who couldn't help laughing and cackling.
- But what a childish goal! - Yumiko said without holding back his laughter
However, in her eyes there was something that Giorno was very familiar with, they were the eyes of someone he had decided to trust.
There was no doubt, Giorno was just the type of person she expected, she didn't really care if she wanted to rule the world or just had no idea what to do with his life, however, she had decided to help him, after all that role was very good gor her.
She then took Giorno's hand and stood in front of him and said
- If I get bored for a minute, this deal is over. For now, continue with your plan.
Giorno laughed, he really liked that woman a lot, took his seat again and continued speaking.
- What they will taste will be only a small dose, they will certainly feel better, but it will not be the full dose. Without a doubt, they will want it, but just they will able to get it only if they are members of our group.
Yumiko was clear about the plan up to that point, so she interrupted
- In order to join to the group, they must be owner of an apartment within this building complex, in total there are 133 apartments, so will we only allow 133 people to join to the group?
- Yes, if the places are limited. We can do a clandestine auction and multiply the value of each apartment
- Without a doubt a simple plan - Yumiko told him - but it has several problems, the first is that they will soon discover the drug's laboratory and the formula to duplicate it, we are talking about the richest in the country, not just any type of person.
- I don't care about that - Giorno continued - since they will never find out, I'm sure of that.
- Give me 5 days and a sample of the liquid, if in five days I have no clue of its origin, I will accept that you have done a good job hiding its origin.
- Well I agree - Giorno took a bottle out of his suitcase and handed it to her - Then keep telling me about the other failures that my plan has.
- The second failure is that it is not counting on that there are more partners, one of them is my father.
Giorno hadn't thought of that as a problem. Who really was Yumiko's father? he had not the remotest idea of his origin
- And who is your father?
- He is the leader of the most powerful Yakuza in the entire East
- Which?
- He is a great white-collar criminal, he has hundreds of thousands of people under him and controls the traffic of a thousand and one things in Asia. This project is only a mask to launder money
- I understand…
Giorno had not even considered the possibility of something like that, and to be honest, he was not clear about how the mafias or criminals of this world work and he had less idea of how to deal with them. Giorno did not know how to act with this information.
Yumiko couldn't hold her laugh at Giorno's face, actually seeing the super arrogant and confident Lord of Santoro and Vega with an expression of complete confusion was very gratifying.
- Don't worry - Yumico said - as your second in command, I will be in charge of removing the companies that finance this project, I will also deal with my father, but I need you to authorize me something
- And what would that be?
- I want the Yakuza be in charge of distributing the drug, if I can give them that as an exchange point, it is possible that even my father will name me heir to his position and not my brother, which would put you one step closer to - He used a thick voice, but at the same time as a cartoon to say - TRY TO GOVERN THE WORLD - after saying that again she laughed, so much that even her abdomen hurt.
- Well, apart from this drug we are working on other very interesting ones, however, we are far from manufacturing them wholesale
- Lack of resources?
- So is
- Once I talk to my father, I can easily take care of supplying you with whatever you want, from uranium to apparently extinct animals, if you wish and of course as much money as you can imagine.
- Are there any other problems with my plan?
- Yes, but nothing that I can't handle by myself
- Then I leave it in your hands
- Please save my personal number and tell me, do you want me to assign you some bodyguards?
- Give me your number and no, I don't need a bodyguard, I can take care of myself.
Giorno took his phone out of his pocket and saw a message that came from his ex-wife, when he saw it he stopped like a spring and went to the door without even saying goodbye.
- Something happened? - Yumiko asked worriedly
- Yes
- Let me help you.