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Nakata Yuji kept his head low.
“They didn’t respond as we expected, sir.”
The iemoto slowly nodded. “That's not very surprising.”
“However, we still succeeded in squeezing out all the necessary support from them.”
“...Success?” The iemoto muttered, his brows furrowing slightly. Dissatisfaction could clearly be heard in his voice. “We merely acquired what the other party promised to give us in the first place. Does that qualify as success to you?”
Nakata Yuji bowed his head even lower in silence. What he had achieved was not to be scoffed at. After all, no proposal was a done deal until everyone had agreed to the terms.
Plenty of business proposals were made at any given time throughout the world. However, less than 1% of those proposals came to fruition. So, what Nakata Yuji did was break through the failure rate of 99% and succeeded in receiving the desired support. That feat alone was worthy of a heap of praises, but…!
“My thoughts were foolish, Iemoto!”
“Hmph!”
Nakata Yuji didn’t bother to point that out.
Humans ostensibly wanted someone to speak the truth. However, they were not as keen to hear the truth about themselves. There was a good reason why people who tried to speak only the truth didn’t live long since ancient times.
The iemoto was a broad-minded man. Of course, he'd still be seen as a boomer according to society's standard criteria. However, from Nakata Yuji's perspective, the iemoto was shockingly open-minded… Compared to others boasting...
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