Meanwhile, at the Shijo family, Shinomiya Seiryu was completely baffled! Why? Why couldn't he eat anything except water!
As long as he looked at those foods, he would feel nauseous! Currently, the only thing he could put in his mouth was water...
At the dining table, no one paid attention to this guy who didn't eat and only drank water. Was he looking down on their Shijo family? He clearly came to seek support, yet he looked down on their family's cuisine.
What an arrogant Shinomiya family... But looking at that Shinomiya Un'yo, although his methods of doing things were not likable, he had really changed too much recently.
If this continues... the Shinomiya family might be taken over by Shinomiya Un'yo without even needing to split!
Then how could their Shijo family profit from it?!
Originally, the Shijo family's idea was to help whoever was weaker between the two of them. Because to muddy the waters of the Shinomiya family, they had to make the Shinomiya family heirs evenly matched! Then fight until both sides suffer!
But now, the one they originally favored, Shinomiya Seiryu, was actually a guy who didn't even do them the honor of eating the food. This made the Shijo family head so angry that he almost kicked him out directly.
On the other side, Shinomiya Un'yo never even considered his second brother Seiryu as his enemy. Just a lackey who only knew how to follow behind the eldest brother, putting on what airs? The real enemy had always been the Shijo family, okay!
It's true that Shijo is a branch family of Shinomiya, and it's true that they are the biggest shareholder that needs to be recruited! But the hearts of the two families had never been united...
The head-on confrontation between these two families traced back to decades ago. In that era of rapid economic development, the Shinomiya conglomerate insisted on adopting a self-serving strategy, entirely aiming for its own interests.
However, the moderate faction of the Shinomiya family raised doubts. They believed that the main family's self-serving behavior was too inhumane, thus a fierce struggle arose between the two sides.
But in the end, the moderate faction failed. Ultimately, the Shinomiya family's moderate faction was stripped of the Shinomiya surname by the main family in a form akin to banishment.
The Shijo Group was thus born. And the fact that the Shijo family head at that time could develop the Shijo Group into the famous multinational enterprise it is today under the suppression of the Shinomiya family also proved that the moderate faction's ability was no less than the main family's.
Therefore... There are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests. Although the Shinomiya family and the Shijo family still didn't get along, they gradually became less at daggers drawn and chose to cooperate.
It is really amazing. The Shijo Group broke away from Japan, which was controlled by the Shinomiya conglomerate, and actually managed to run to the West and develop to its current scale. I heard that its current market value is already attacking a trillion US dollars, about to reach the same level as the Shinomiya family...
That piece of trash Shinomiya Seiryu actually still thought about taking down the Shijo family? What a brainless guy.
In Shinomiya Un'yo's plan, unless an ultra-standard power like Uchiha Ryo intervened, the Shijo family faction could only be won over and cooperated with, and absolutely could not be offended too much.
Perhaps the current Shijo family was waiting for the Shinomiya family head to die of illness, and then watch a grand drama of three sons fighting for the position of heir. After that, they would find a way to swallow the entire Shinomiya family!
After all, the two families are relatives. If all three heirs fail, the Shijo family can completely find a legal opportunity to seize the position of family head!
But! Shinomiya Un'yo would absolutely not let this kind of thing happen. So for now, building a good relationship with the Shijo family was the main focus.
Hope they don't think about how to annex the Shinomiya family! But even if they wanted to, what methods could they use? The concepts of the older generation are deeply rooted in both the Shinomiya and Shijo families, that is, passing down to males and not females.
The only ones with inheritance rights are the three of us, and... the husband of that girl Kaguya.
In that case, there is absolutely no possibility for him to lose, right? Uchiha Ryo is standing on his side, and the two older brothers above him, one is physically disabled and the other is brain-damaged.
Hehe, please wait, Mr. Uchiha. It won't take long for me, Shinomiya Un'yo, to completely stabilize my position as the heir!
Setting aside the tense Shijo family dinner for now, the perspective shifts to the leisurely Shinomiya Kaguya mansion.
....
After Uchiha Ryo and Yukinoshita left the snack street, they called Hayasaka Ai and Shinomiya Kaguya to help buy materials, and called Chitanda at home to tell her to bring Shirosaki Hana to meet at the Shinomiya family tonight.
"Shinomiya-san, the elementary school angel costume I ordered has been made, right?"
After learning that Hana was going to perform in a stage play, Uchiha Ryo took it upon himself to put all the expenses for costumes and props on his own tab.
Anyway, having the Shinomiya family people do it, custom-made clothes are much more exquisite than buying or renting from outside clothing stores.
"Ryo-oniichan, I'm done changing."
Shirosaki Hana, walking out of the room, had already changed into an outfit resembling a white nun angel, with a halo headdress on her head.
[Angel - Shirosaki Hana]
After coming to Uchiha Ryo and doing a twirl, she picked up a cute and compact bow and arrow, entirely in the shape of a pink heart, from the table.
She is indeed an angel!! Uchiha Ryo thought to himself.
Chitanda Eru put her hands together. "So cute... Hana, what is your stage play mainly about?"
"Um... I'm an angel holding the bow and arrow of love, and then I shoot an arrow down to the mortal realm that hits the male lead (Hoshino Hinata), and after that I will descend to her side. It's roughly a story like that."
Hayasaka Ai, eating the sanshoku dango Uchiha Ryo packed, rested her chin on her hand and said. "What an old-fashioned story..."
Yukinoshita rubbed Hana's soft cheeks. "It is a children's stage play after all. Speaking of which, we also have a stage play for the Hoshin Festival."
"I remember it's a performance based on The Legend of Hoshin. The Drama Club is already rehearsing it." Shinomiya Kaguya, as the vice president, knew more specific details.
Uchiha Ryo smiled. "Why compare an elementary school stage play with our high school division... By the way, Hana, you have memorized all your lines, right? As the main character, you can't forget your lines at the critical moment."
"Don't worry, onii-chan, I have memorized them all. Tomorrow you just watch our performance from the audience! Don't forget the big pudding afterwards!"
"Okay, okay. As long as your performance goes smoothly, onii-chan will make a pudding as tall as you!"
Stars gradually twinkled in Shirosaki Hana's eyes. She was already imagining a giant pudding as tall as herself and several times thicker than her waist in front of her!
The ones usually sold in supermarkets are only the size of a small bowl. Hana felt that eating three in one breath wasn't enough. Now she can finally eat pudding to her heart's content!
"By the way... During the two days of the culture festival, what are your plans, Ryo-kun? Or rather... how do you want to stroll around."
As soon as Hayasaka Ai's question came out, the scene suddenly became quiet. Because everyone except Shirosaki Hana could hear that Hayasaka Ai wasn't asking how to stroll, it was clearly who to stroll with?
After all, the culture festival is two days long. If Uchiha Ryo dared to say one person a day, he would definitely be despised by everyone in Shuchiin, so he could only choose one person!
Then this person is...
Hayasaka Ai had a serious expression, Chitanda looked expectant, Yukinoshita was unmoved, and Shinomiya Kaguya watching from the side was a bit envious.
"Onii-chan will accompany me to stroll around our school's culture festival tomorrow, so for brother's school culture festival, I will accompany him!" Shirosaki Hana broke the deadlock!
Uchiha Ryo rubbed Shirosaki Hana's head. "Sure, then I'll let Hana accompany me."