Chapter 247: Post-disaster
He was once a favored son of Heaven whom everyone envied.
After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he joined a subordinate branch of Mitsui Corporation in Japan. Before he was forty, he had reached the position of department head and bought his own house in Tokyo with a loan.
Although the mortgage alone exceeded eighty thousand Japanese Yen each month, having a house, a car, a stable job, and a wife and Child waiting for him at home in the City of Tokyo meant Manno Daisei could be said to have surpassed eighty percent of the people in Japan.
"Take care!"
After finishing breakfast, Manno Daisei's wife, as usual, tidied his suit for him, saw him to the Exit, and waved with a smile.
"Okay! I'm leaving now!" Before starting his car, Manno Daisei waved towards his wife. After signaling, he started the car, preparing to go to work.
More than half a month had passed since the Yamata no Orochi ravaged Tokyo. Because the warehouse of the company he worked for was affected by the Yamata no Orochi, he had been forced to rest at home for a week.
Fortunately, the house he bought with a loan was not on the Yamata no Orochi's path of advance, so it did not suffer any loss.
Driving his black Toyota car, Manno Daisei clearly saw construction sites surrounded by fences everywhere along the way, through the car window.
Inside each construction site, workers wearing safety helmets were busy. On the construction walls of the sites, the name of Yashida Corporation was painted.
Clearly, after this snake disaster, Yashida Corporation gained the profits from Tokyo's post-disaster reconstruction because of Mariko Yashida's behavior of exiling the Yamata no Orochi.
Driving past site after site, Manno Daisei thought maliciously, "Why didn't the people from Yashida Corporation come forward before the Yamata no Orochi invaded Tokyo? What they wanted was precisely the lucrative profits from this post-disaster reconstruction!"
As a highly educated talent who graduated from the University of Tokyo, and a corporate slave who had struggled within the company for over ten years, Manno Daisei was always unsparing in speculating about those Important Figures from the darkest angle.
How could those Zaibatsu, as stupid as pigs yet occupying eighty percent of Japan's wealth, possibly do anything without profit?
"A bunch of idiots!"
Through the car window, Manno Daisei looked sarcastically at the protesting public on the street.
In his opinion, these people holding banners and photos of Mariko Yashida were simply a bunch of brainwashed fools.
Harboring a feeling of being clear-headed while everyone else was deluded, and with a condescending attitude, Manno Daisei quickly arrived at the place where he worked, Mitsui Corporation.
Mitsui Corporation is a company subordinate to Mitsui Group. It mainly deals in the export trade of some precision instruments within the Mitsui Group.
Although in recent years, affected by technology development, some of Japan's precision instruments are not as popular as before, and Mitsui Corporation's performance is also not as good as before, Manno Daisei's salary and benefits were not affected.
In Japan, slightly larger scale companies all implement the seniority system. Salary increases with age, and many Japanese work at the same company their whole lives.
Even if there are layoffs, the company will generally choose from among the lowest level employees and will not affect middle and high-level staff like Manno Daisei.
"Damn it! What kind of joke is this? I've been fired! President Oshima, you must be joking!"
Before being called to the Office, Manno Daisei would never have thought that one day he would actually be dismissed.
"Mr. Manno, it's not a dismissal. It's that the entire company went bankrupt!" The president of Mitsui Corporation had unconcealable fatigue on his face.
"Bankrupt? How is that possible? The company is backed by Mitsui Group. How could it go bankrupt?"
Manno Daisei completely panicked. If it were a dismissal, he could at least receive a sum of compensation.
But if the company went bankrupt, given the greedy personality of those Important Figures in the Mitsui Group, they would one hundred percent not get their hands on this sum of compensation.
"Because of this snake disaster, the real estate Insurance Company subordinate to Mitsui Group paid astronomical compensation. In order not to let Mitsui Insurance go bankrupt, they had no choice but to reallocate funds from subordinate affiliated enterprises. It's not just us; four other companies like us suffered the fate of bankruptcy!"
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Manno Daisei left the company in a daze. He no longer remembered what Oshima said in the end.
He was driving his car aimlessly on the streets of Tokyo. He didn't know where he was going. Go home?! How should he tell his wife?
He had lost his job, the huge mortgage, the child's tuition fees, and household expenses. Although he had saved a little money over the years, facing the high monthly expenses, that little deposit was merely a drop in the bucket.
Once there was no source of income, the house would definitely be taken back by the bank, and the entire family would immediately fall apart.
Beep Beep Beep Beep—
A burst of car honking sounded from behind, startling the dazed Manno Daisei awake. Only after he came to his senses did he realize he had unconsciously come to the side of a river.
By the embankment beside the river, over ten cars were parked. From time to time, people stood by the railing, flipped over, and went down. The splashing water sounded in Manno Daisei's ears.
As if possessed, he also came to the side of the embankment. Watching the turbulent river water submerge the figures who jumped down one after another, a sudden impulse arose in his heart to also leap down.
Just as his hands gripped the railing tightly, and he was just about to flip over and leap down.
A hand suddenly grabbed his arm. "Mister, swimming and fitness... Ptooey, sorry, I'm used to saying that. How about considering overseas work? The monthly salary is one hundred fifty thousand Japanese Yen, and before you go, we will pay a sum of eight hundred thousand Japanese Yen as a settling-in allowance!"
A young man with dyed yellow hair grabbed Manno Daisei's arm and skillfully introduced it to him.
Manno Daisei's dazed spirit suddenly trembled upon hearing "work" and "one hundred fifty thousand Japanese Yen". He instantly sobered up.
"Are you sure? One hundred fifty thousand monthly salary?"
The yellow-haired young man looked at Manno Daisei's expression, felt a surge of joy in his heart, thinking, "There's a chance." He quickly pointed at his chest badge and introduced.
"Hey, Uncle, look clearly. This is Yashida Corporation recruiting workers. The salary is one hundred fifty thousand Japanese Yen, that's right, but it's not in domestic Japan, it's overseas!"
Yashida Corporation. Manno Daisei was like grabbing onto a life raft. He gripped back the yellow-haired young man's arm. "Where do I sign up? What conditions are needed?! I'm a University of Tokyo graduate, I have many years of management experience—I—"
"Uncle, don't rush. This job needs many people. It's an employment post that Yashida Corporation opened up specifically to help the affected public. Did you see that bus over there? Please go On the Vehicle and wait first. Wait a moment, and when it's full, we'll depart!"
With a wave of his hand, a young girl wearing a black bodycon skirt and a small red hat on her head ran over from the side, leading Manno Daisei towards the large bus nearby.
"Five thousand Japanese Yen in hand! That guy Serizawa was right, this kind of Aokigahara is better for recruiting people. Including this one, I've earned seventy thousand Japanese Yen today!"
The yellow-haired young man watched Manno Daisei walk onto the bus and happily swung his fist fiercely.
"Speaking of which, including this bus, our group alone has already recruited over two hundred people. Why is Yashida Corporation recruiting so many people?"
A trace of curiosity flashed in the yellow-haired young man's heart, but upon seeing someone planning to jump into the river, that bit of curiosity was instantly thrown to the back of his mind. He strode forward, rushing to the front of that person almost like a hundred-meter sprint.
"Mister! How about considering overseas work with a monthly salary of one hundred fifty thousand Japanese Yen!" The yellow-haired young man's foot speed, trained by being chased and beaten by other people's male homeowners, got him ahead by a step. He grabbed the Middle-Aged Man who wanted to commit suicide. Another colleague, being a step slow, could only leave dejectedly.
......
A blue light gate bloomed at the end of the empty Air-raid Shelter…
Manno Daisei looked at the familiar light gate he had once seen on television, thinking of the Yamata no Orochi that had been devoured by the light gate.
He understood in his heart that this was a scam. What high-paying job with a monthly salary of one hundred fifty thousand Japanese Yen? Could it be that Yashida Corporation scammed them into coming here, wanting to use them to feed the snake?
But the contract had already been signed, and eight hundred thousand Japanese Yen had already been deposited into his wife's account.
Moreover,
Manno Daisei felt his heart pounding. His gaze carefully looked around. All around were Fully Armed Soldier with loaded guns.
Just now, someone was shouting loudly, wanting to quit and escape. As a result, the surrounding armed guards opened fire directly without the slightest hesitation.
Looking at the large area of bloodstain still remaining On the Ground, even though his legs were trembling, Manno Daisei also had no choice but to follow the flow of people and continue moving forward…
Until stepping into the blue light gate, entering the unknown world on the opposite side.
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(end of chapter)