"Hm? You're leaving early?"
"Yeah, apparently, I forgot to finish an assignment before going here, so mom told me to come back today to finish it."
"Well, I guess that's expected of you."
"Just shut up if you have nothing important to say."
"Yeah yeah."
It seems like Sayuri is going to leave the house and go back home earlier than expected. Well, it's not really a bad thing for me, so I don't really care much. But…
"So? How are you going back home?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Because… It's currently 5 am."
Yes, my sister is going back home at 5 am. 5 in the morning. We like to tease each other, but we're still siblings, so I'm still quite worried for her…
"Oho~ is my brother worried about me~"
"Well of course, you are my sister after all."
"Boo~ I expected a better reaction from you…"
Even though I'm taking our conversation seriously for once, Sayuri isn't. As she was still using her phone as we talked.
"You still haven't answered my question yet…"
"Okay okay, I'll answer it. Dad is sending me a chauffeur to take me back home. It's the same guy who used to drive us to school, remember? *beep* Oh?"
"Hm? What's up?"
"Ah, I just received a text message from the chauffeur. Apparently, he's already outside the house."
"So you really are leaving at 5 am…"
"Why are you so worried? I'm more worried about you, you know?"
"Why?"
"Isn't today the day you'll try hiring Fumiko-san?"
"… you are correct."
"See? But anyway, I'll have to go now. I wouldn't want to make the chauffeur wait outside."
She then stood up from the couch she was sitting at and headed outside.
"Oh yeah, one more thing."
"Yes?"
"…Contact me later, okay?"
"For updates with Sakurai?"
"That too, but… As you just said, we're siblings. So I would like to talk with my brother from time to time too, you know?"
"I see…"
"Besides, I'm really mad about how you've never contacted me in RINE* since you left for high school, you know? So please, chat with me regularly so we can catch up with each other? Okay?"
"…Okay."
"Well, that's it for now, Bye~"
"Bye…"
And with that, I heard the bang of the door, which means that Sayuri has left the house. After she left, I just sat there on the couch, alone. It was silent for a while until I suddenly hear a notification coming from my phone.
It was a message from Uncle Ken, it contains a file named "Sakurai.pdf". It seems like they already got the information.
I galloped towards the library to check the contents of the file. What's inside it was quite shocking.
"Sakurai Fumiko… 15 years old, birthday is on November 16, oh? It's quite close from now huh… Let's see… Huh? Family medical records?"
There was something that caught my eye. It was a table called "Family Medical Records". At first I thought how they even got this information, but then I remembered how powerful my dad actually is… His company is the biggest game company in japan after all…
But back to the contents of the table, there I see Sakurai's mom and dad. It appears that she doesn't have any siblings… Her dad's records are nothing special, but her mom's…
"October 29, 2018… Brought to the emergency room because of sepsis…"
I once again wonder how big the reach of my Dad's company is, but that's not the important thing right now. What's important is that I think I found the cause of the events yesterday.
After that, I kept looking at the file. As I read through everything, I kind of felt disgusted of myself… After all, I'm looking at a lot of sensitive information here without her knowledge… I'll have to apologise later on…
But as I reached the end of the document, there was another thing that caught my eye. It also shocked me. It was the table named "Debt"
"…Their total debt is… 700,000 yen?!"