After strolling around the aquarium with Yukino and giving the senpai's New World Aquarium a decent score.
Shuchiin University students were indeed extraordinary. Don't think that a prestigious academy like Shuchiin only produced politicians.
Their graduates were blooming everywhere. There were traces of Shuchiin in the upper echelons of business, politics, military, police, and medicine.
As the ancients said: Dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes. A merchant's son will likely be a merchant, and a politician's child will likely be a politician.
But others say that wealth does not last three generations, and honest officials don't last long. Rich people are generally busy with their careers, thus neglecting their children's education.
The reason Shuchiin attracted the favor of so many high-level people was because they had professional guidance and better education.
The five seniors who could get the extracurricular activity of starting their own businesses were not simple characters. So Uchiha Ryo didn't really care about the task assigned by Shuchiin. He would just rate them all as excellent or above average.
As for Yukinoshita Yukino, she walked through the aquarium very seriously and then began to analyze it from all aspects. After all, this was her first job since joining the student council.
After finishing the first destination, the two had to go back to the apartment to change clothes. After all, Yukinoshita Haruno's bar wasn't like the Ijichi family's civilian music bar, where you could enter wearing anything.
Time passed to seven in the evening. The second and final place to be inspected today was Yukinoshita Haruno's high-end bar.
Since the bar was located on the top floor of a commercial building, the primary condition for entry was to be dressed in formal wear.
A blue trench coat, a black mandarin collar shirt, suit pants, and shiny black leather shoes. Uchiha Ryo's foundation was there, but to look more mature, he had to work on his hair.
His stylist was Yukinoshita Yukino. Uchiha Ryo, who didn't usually pay much attention to dressing up, couldn't help but touch his face in surprise after seeing himself in the mirror.
"I didn't expect to be so handsome—"
"Narcissist...."
Uchiha Ryo stood up and looked at Yukinoshita. "This isn't narcissism, it's confidence. Yukino, ask yourself honestly, am I not handsome?"
Yukino turned her head away, refusing to look at him.
"Measuring a person's worth by grades or looks alone is foolish behavior. Even if someone is exceptionally good-looking, their character might not be good."
Uchiha Ryo: "....I suspect you're insulting my character. But forget it. For the sake of how beautiful Yukino looks tonight, I'll magnanimously forgive you."
Under the bright lights, Yukino's skin, white as fine snow, looked exceptionally dazzling. Under the knee-length ruffle skirt, her slender legs were highlighted. Her silky, gorgeous black hair hung naturally, and her small sandals matched her delicate ankles perfectly.
Walking out of the apartment, even though it was night, Yukino was like a white lotus blooming in the darkness, exuding a cool charm.
Arriving downstairs at the destination, Uchiha Ryo looked up at the skyscraper emitting an orange glow.
As Yukino walked ahead and pressed the elevator button, the elevator doors slid open with a ding.
It was a transparent glass elevator. As the height increased, the entire night view of Shinjuku, Tokyo unfolded before their eyes.
Arriving on the 14th floor, the elevator doors opened. Uchiha Ryo raised his right arm for Yukino to take, and the two walked side by side into the bar lobby.
Just walking into the lobby, they could feel that the texture under their feet was completely different. If they didn't know better, they would have thought this was an award ceremony somewhere.
However, the lighting in the bar was very soft, as low-key as candlelight.
In the center of the lobby, under the spotlight, a Western woman was playing jazz piano. Passing through the open wooden doors, a male waiter immediately bowed to them and led the two to the bar seats in front of the glass window.
"Eh, I didn't expect you two to come. It must be a school assignment."
Just like Takahashi Kai standing at the entrance of the aquarium, Yukinoshita Haruno, the bar owner, obviously appeared behind the most conspicuous bar counter.
Different from Yukino's elegant snow lotus, otherworldly fairy temperament, Haruno had her hair slowly tied up, revealing her eyes that shone with wisdom.
In terms of figure, Haruno almost crushed Yukino beside her. Her graceful wine-red skirt hem was eye-catching, and her towering and full jade rabbits were truly impeccable.
Yukino's face darkened. "What are you looking at?!"
Uchiha Ryo felt his foot being stepped on. Yukino's heel was a bit too sharp. He was just admiring what she didn't have. Was that normal?
"Would you two like coffee or fruit soda?"
Owner Haruno took the initiative to act as a bartender and entertain her sister and her sister's male... classmate.
A pair of beautiful sisters sat opposite each other, one in front of her and one beside her. Haruno handed over the drinks and opened a bottle of red wine for herself.
Yukino: "The owner is entertaining guests personally, and drinking wine herself?"
Haruno rested her chin on her hand, swirling the wine glass with her other hand, enjoying the fragrant aroma of the wine, then drank it all in one gulp.
"So, you two didn't come here just for a simple inspection, did you~"
Although Yukinoshita Haruno looked a little tipsy, both Uchiha and Yukino knew that this woman was definitely not drunk.
She flicked the glass lightly with her slender fingers, making a crisp sound. Until her voice fell, the three of them fell into silence.
Yukino didn't know what she wanted to say by coming here, just sat there silently with wandering eyes. Yukinoshita Haruno's gaze met Yukino's, quietly waiting for her sister to speak.
When their eyes suddenly met, Yukino looked away unnaturally, finally resting her gaze on Uchiha Ryo.
Yukinoshita Yukino didn't speak, just endured Haruno's gaze. She seemed to be deliberating her words, opening her mouth carefully, then closing it.
"Sister... I."
That hesitation only appeared for a moment, but Uchiha Ryo held Yukino's hand, which was already sweating slightly.
He took over Yukino's unfinished words and spoke slowly.
"I want to ask about the Yukinoshita family.... about your thoughts on Yukino's future."
Uchiha Ryo's tone was calm. Although his voice wasn't loud, Yukinoshita Haruno definitely heard it clearly.
"Our family's thoughts on Yukino...."
Haruno's gaze lowered, seeing the two hands suddenly held together.
"Yukino is still Yukino. She can go to school properly, and she can do her own thing while she's in school."
Uchiha Ryo: "Haruno-senpai should know, I'm not just asking about the school period."
Yukinoshita Haruno closed her eyes. "It's hard for me to judge Mother's thoughts."
"Then what if Sister Haruno takes control of the Yukinoshita family before Yukino graduates?"
Yukinoshita Haruno's smile disappeared, then became serious. "If it were up to me, it would really be hard to decide what Yukino does. But.... whether it's me or Mother, if Yukino is taken away by someone who truly likes her, we probably won't stop it."
Uchiha Ryo picked up his soda. "That is indeed a possibility. But with Haruno-senpai's personality, if you controlled the Yukinoshita family, you probably wouldn't let your beloved sister be taken away by just anyone."
Haruno narrowed her eyes. "If it's Ryo-otouto, it might not be impossible~"