"Tap, tap, tap."
At midnight, someone knocked on Shin'yu's door.
Shin'yu opened his calm eyes and got out of bed. The door gradually opened, and a pair of bright, beautiful eyes came into view.
"It's you?" Shin'yu raised an eyebrow. "Why isn't it Shōko?"
Outside the door, Niwa Yukino bowed deeply and opened her red lips slightly: "Miyamoto-kun, my father has important matters to discuss with you. Please come with me."
"Understood." Shin'yu turned his eyes and glanced in a certain direction in the shadows, his lips moving.
"You brought a tail."
Yukino understood his lip language, and a trace of sadness flashed across her brows, as if she had known about this for a long time. She repeated, "Please come with me."
Shin'yu smiled slightly and pushed the door open and walked out.
Forging Blades Workshop headquarters, Niwa Maya's room.
"The situation is urgent, so I'll get straight to the point. Can you really help us get through this crisis?"
"A gentleman does not joke. Thirty percent of the shares, and I'll take care of it for you." Shin'yu folded his arms. "Your merchant guild doesn't lack funds or ways to make money. What it lacks is a powerful enough deterrent force, and I happen to satisfy that."
Maya hesitated and said, "Just how strong is your strength?"
"To be honest, I don't even know how strong I am now..." Shin'yu's gaze suddenly drifted, and his faint voice revealed a bit of arrogance. "If I wanted to, destroying a country shouldn't be too difficult..."
"It's actually... to this extent..." Maya's hand trembled, almost knocking over the tea.
He really couldn't imagine that the young man with such heaven-defying strength in front of him was so unassuming.
At this thought, he immediately stood up, "Since we are going to cooperate, then I have a condition. As things stand, we still don't know your true identity..."
"Uchiha Shin'yu." Shin'yu said softly, "Don't misunderstand, I have nothing to do with that group of Uchiha in the Hidden Leaf Village of the Land of Fire. I am Lord Madara's disciple... and blade."
"That legendary... Uchiha Madara?" Maya couldn't help but take two steps back, and Shōko and Yukino quickly helped him.
He murmured, "If you are that person's disciple... then there's no problem..."
After learning about Shin'yu's background, he waved his hand and immediately agreed to Shin'yu's conditions.
Maya's eyes were burning as he said, "Not only that, I promise that if you can allow the Forging Blades Workshop to completely get rid of the control of the Land of Iron's dignitaries, in addition to the 30% of the shares that were promised to you, I will give up another 20%. From then on, half of the merchant guild's annual profits will be given to you."
Shin'yu looked at Niwa Maya, who had a solemn expression, and thought to himself, Old fox, he wants to completely tie me to the Forging Blades Workshop.
If one prospers, all prosper; if one suffers, all suffer. And when it comes to certain decisive moments, my 50% of the shares will not be enough to overturn the balance of interests.
It must be said that as a family head and the acting chairman of the entire merchant guild, this guy is very bold and has a lot of courage.
But Shin'yu didn't nod his head stupidly. Instead, he set three rules:
"I can help the merchant guild solve this crisis of changing hands, and from now on, I will act as the supreme force to deter the Land of Iron's lords, but I will not interfere with how the merchant guild operates or how it expands its scale. I will only help when the merchant guild encounters a crisis."
"I am a sharp blade that can kill and deter. How to use it is up to you."
Niwa Maya thought about it carefully, and finally agreed.
Because the martial arts tournament for marriage had already been announced, the group had no choice but to play along, letting Shin'yu step forward and display his strength in front of all the samurai.
"But..." Shōko hesitated, then whispered, "The requirements for this competition are that only samurai can participate. Shin'yu-kun, you... you're a ninja, right?"
Shin'yu smiled lightly, "Don't worry, even without using ninja techniques, I'll make sure to beat them."
At this moment, Niwa Maya coughed a few times, gave Shin'yu a meaningful look, and said loudly, "Then... it's settled. If Shin'yu-dono can win the championship, it's not impossible for me to marry my daughter to you!"
Yukino's delicate body trembled slightly, and beneath her white veil, her red lips pursed slightly.
Shin'yu saw this and replied with feigned frivolity, "Then this son-in-law will take his leave."
Maya looked at his daughter, "Yukino, see him out."
Yukino hesitated, but seeing her father's gaze, she moved her lotus steps and left the room with Shin'yu.
"Shōko, you go down too."
As the others left one by one, Maya leaned back in his bamboo chair, gazing at the lonely moon outside the window, his expression lonely, as if he had aged decades in an instant.
In less than half an hour, a knock sounded at the door.
"Come in," Maya sighed.
The visitors were his two disciples.
"Master, you..." Ryunosuke hesitated, quickly glancing at his junior brother, then flicked his sleeve, "Ah, my junior brother told me... you're going to entrust the fate of the trading company to that kid from daytime. This disciple doesn't understand, why would you trust an outsider?"
However, Maya ignored him, only staring at his second disciple, "Tetsuya, is that what you think too?"
Tetsuya frowned slightly and said, "I also think this is not very rational."
Maya snorted coldly, "What, do you think I'm senile?"
"I wouldn't dare!" Ryunosuke knelt on both knees, not daring to raise his head.
"Tetsuya, how did you know about this?"
Tetsuya didn't answer, only saying, "I just don't want Master to grasp at straws and ruin the trading company's great future!"
"Tetsuya! Say less!" Ryunosuke widened his eyes, frightened by this second junior brother.
He couldn't understand why this second junior brother, who was naturally lazy and disliked fighting, dared to say such things to their master today!
Unexpectedly, the usually strict master actually chuckled, seemingly not minding his disciple's impolite words.
"A miscalculation, Tetsuya."
Both disciples were stunned.
Maya continued, "Ryunosuke, you were the one who advised me to marry off Shōko, weren't you!"
Ryunosuke was sweating profusely, "It was indeed this disciple."
"Confess honestly, who told you about this plan?"
"No one told this disciple, it was this disciple's own idea!" Ryunosuke's face turned pale.
Niwa Maya slowly paced to stand in front of him, "Heh heh heh, it's true that you care about the trading company, but with your wooden head, how could you come up with this plan?"
"I..." Ryunosuke was anxious, wanting to explain, but the words caught in his throat.
He was a man of few words and a somewhat dull personality.
Maya sighed deeply, "Even you didn't notice. Wasn't this matter suggested to you by your good junior apprentice?"
Ryunosuke was stunned, looking at his junior apprentice beside him with suspicion.
He vaguely remembered that one night when he sought out his junior apprentice to drink away his sorrows, his junior apprentice did mention that if the only daughter of the Sugawara Family could find a good match, it would alleviate some of the pressure on the merchant guild, and so on.
"Could it be..." He suddenly remembered the words that Miyamoto-kun had asked him to convey to his master during the day:
'That second apprentice of yours is not simple.'
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