Chapter 106Previous >>268812061Shima ran into his ex-wife Reiko and they decided to catch up. During it, Reiko revealed that she was going to marry Okumoto and Shima revealed what he'd overheard him saying about her. Reiko was to meet up with him at a hotel but discovered he was messing around with other women. Through her machinations, Okumoto lost his other woman, his wife and his job and now with nowhere let, Reiko took him in.Shima wound up running into his old flame Katsuko Suzukamo and the two wound up reconnecting. There was a problem, though, in that the famous kabuki actor Toranosuke Hanayagi was also interested in her. Hanayagi also happened to have a teenage daughter who wound up auditioning for Sunlight and, impressed, they agreed to bring her in for training barring her father's permission which he gave. But things turned tense when, while in Osaka, both Shima and Hanayagi wound up at Katsuko's restaurant and Hanayagi realized that he and Katsuko were old lovers. On top of it, while spending the night with Shima Katsuko's other lover and patron, the legendary artist Zuikaku Matsumoto, passed away in the hospital.
That's it for today. Next time, someone is jealous.
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>>269023538I can't see the point in pressuring someone into a relationship, particularly by using her feelings for another guy. You're just setting yourself up for misery. Pure midlife crisis stupidity.
>>269024592>I can't see the pointHe literally admits it's an act of desperation, all he wants is some cooch
I failed to protect the thread...
Is there anyone in this series that actually loves their wife?
Wait, the one dude who was in Tomabechi's faction. He got sidetracked by Noriko but saw the error of his ways.
>>269026301Shima looks so young here.
>>269026765That one guy Shima had to fire from Hatsushiba
>>269027005He always looked younger than he was. Even now.
>>269023569I'd like to say this is not the way if you want a loving and stable relationship... but we didn't see much of that in this series to begin with, huh.Thanks OP.
>>269024177I concur.
>>269026798Tomabechi feels like a lifetime ago.
>>269033957It was about 11ish years ago in story. I think him getting ousted was at the end of 1989 because Shima got exiled to the Philippines right after which was in 1990 (since the Luzon earthquake was a plot point).
bump
>>269034451Considering all that was changing a decade is a really long time.
>>269036520Who paid for this?
>>269040072The company
>>269040833THE company? I didn't Hatsushiba had that kind of competition...
is there a reading order graph for this series?
>>269042705Section Chief->Division Chief-> Managing Director->Executive Managing Director-> Senior Managing Director->President->Chairman-> Senior Advisor
>>269042775thanks, and skip the prequels for later?
>>269040072WE CLAIM THIS BUMP IN THE NAME OF TORITSUORYAAAAH
>>269044264>TORITSU
>>269042775>spoiling the series with your own titleit's both infuriating and satisfying
>>269033957honestly I need a chart of characters to remember everything
>>269023366what exactly was her relationship with that guy? was she being forced or did she actually liked him?
>>269023569nasty
>>269046784>I've been working in this company for X years and I'm being promoted? What a twist!
>>269046811That wouldn't be a bad resource honestly. Although it might spoil a lot at a glance.
>>269049697it could be organized into arcs, so when a character you don't quite remember appears again you can check the arcs he has appeared on before.
>>269050410That's a great idea.
>>269048332Most people hit a ceiling or even get bumped down again.
>>269047267She slept with him to get him to agree to do a piece for the hall that Hatsushiba had built. Getting that was a big coup for Shima which got him sent back to HQ in Tokyo and after he left Kyoto she decided to continue her relationship with him. I don't think she was really forced to.
>>269052741Not with Shima's stats
>>269054491He's great until there's a forced combat section.
>>269055379Shima using a gun to defend himself when?
>>269056392Probably never
>>269056392nami will be the gunslinger in the family
>>269057458Truly the American spirit
Chapter 107
>>269058610the return of the WHITE PIG
>>269058929patrolled
That's it for today. Next time, I'm sure Katsuko is happy in her new relationship.
>>269058929KEK
>>269058711>don't mind me, I'm just an extra in this story
>>269058929lol
>>269058837just sleep with her, shimait'll be easier for everyone
>>269059095being katsuko is pain
>>269060026She only has herself to blame honestly. Hirokane intends her to be the perfect Yamato Nadeshiko who will do anything for the man she loves and is permanently loyal but she's the one who also whored herself out to Masumoto which fucked things up betwee her and Shima for a while (and sent him away from her in the end), then started leading on Hanayagi and stupidly told him that she was with another guy because "oh no this horny playboy big shot actor surely only sees me as a friend and doesn't want to fuck me" which just set him up to be jealous.She's a former geisha AND has been a mama for restaurants for a long time, she shouldn't be THIS naive. She's honestly kind of an idiot.
