Tachibana Palace

The test

Yuno finishes up her work before she freshens up and waits for the guests.

Mr Tachibana watches as the Roman High students and press arrive. He forgot to mention that there's a big announcement that he will be making today as the Mayor of the Kagawa district.

The guests are taken to the main hall that was nicely set up and looks completely different from it's usual spacious and open themed style.

Today it is decorated with ribbons on the walls with balloons and portraits of many unique styles. The colour theme is Gold and Blue with White. The Roman high students are also dressed in gowns and suits featured around those specific colours.

Mr Tachibana watches the guests fawn over the small child babbling with Yuno about an alien invasion, "He's quit the chatter box isn't he?" A reporter comments smiling at Tori and Yuno nods in agreement.

"Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the Tachibana Palace, I hope you'll enjoy your stay here tonight. May the Roman High ball go smoothly."

Yuno watches her brother pull up in his baby blue motor bike.

He walks into the building and looks around for his sister, but cannot see her. He notices Mitsuko instead therefore deciding to walk towards him, "Hey man, what's with the press?"

"Sir will be announcing that he won't be running for next years elections. He wants to focus on the business side of things he's having a hard time keeping track of everything, also there's some project he's working on with Roman High, but that is something he didn't tell me about."

Yuno sits in her room playing with Tori. Her job will start when the guests are gone or the event is done. There's a knock on the door and she opens it surprised to see Mr Tachibana of all people at her door.

"Miss Lin, would you mind if I could give you a bit of extra work? See, one of my guests came with his wife and new born and I can't seem to find Sensen, so I was wondering if you wouldn't mind babysitting an extra child."

"Not at all, they can bring the child to my room I'm sure Bobo wouldn't mind a friend."

"Wonderful."

Yuno watches the one child become 3, than 4, and 5, and she counts a total number of 6 babies in her room. She groans and grumbles, luckily there's only 1 new born and he doesn't look like he cries much.

Mr Tachibana sits in his office and pours a glass of whiskey for himself and Mr Ryujin, "You are one man I did not expect to see here, how may I help you?" Tachibana asks, knowing the man before him to be his corporate rival it is awfully suspicious he looks so hopeless and needy in his office.

Ryujin sighs and sits back in his seat, "Well, I'm no longer well enough to run my own company and I need someone who can keep the Ryujin firm going. I don't have a successor of my own to pass it on to and I can't say I have friends I trust.

"My wife is worried she won't have the same loyalty and dedication from my clients and partners. It's starting to stress me out having all my hard work crumbling before my very eyes."

"Why not adopt a successor?" Ken casually asks trying his hardest to ignore the teens that should be at the ball but for some reason he can see them in the garden.

"It's too late for that, if I had a son maybe I would've taken him all around with me and taught him my trade secrets. I have a lot of youngsters I mentored back in the day, but they all have their own companies going I'm running out of time."

Ryujin is a man that's only 70 years old as far as Tachibana is concerned that's healthy enough. Currently he looks like a withering old man with prominent age lines and white hair he always hides well, however today it's as if he said 'screw it' and embraced his potential funeral.