Not Everything Can be Bought by Money

Chapter 10

Kazuto's POV
15th of March 2025
11am

I sit on my chair in my office with my legs crossed on the table. "What to make? What to make?" I look at my sketch on my hand as I keep on biting my pen.

KNOCK KNOCK

"You have a guest, Sir." Alex says.

"Who is it? It's Saturday today." I say not raising my head.

"It's Sir Eugeo."

"Okay, be there in a minute." I say putting the book and my pen on the table.

I walk out of the office. "Hello there, Cousin." Eugeo says with a wink.

"What's wrong?" I ask him.

"They had a fight. Yours and mine." He says half sitting on the sofa.

"Our parents? Why? What happened?"

"They sort of slip out a word that made my Dad super mad. Then, after that, it was all shouting. Mom told me to leave home, so here I am."

"Tasu."

"Oh no, you're not. You are not hacking my house's security system." Eugeo points his finger in front of me which I ignore it.

"Too late for that, Cousin." I say before a screen appears between us.

"Unbelievable." He mutters as I see our parents on the screen.

"Wow, look very serious." I say.

"You think? Now, stop it." I swipe my hand and the screen disappears.

I walk to the fridge, "So, what do you want to do now?" I ask him as I take two drinks.

"No idea. I wasn't planning on going out today." He says taking the drink I handed him.

"Well, neither do I. I was just sitting on my office when you've arrived." I say walking to the sofa.

"What were you doing?"

"Just brainstorming on what I should make. But, till now, I found nothing..."

"Kazu, there's something I've been wondering."

"What? Is it about my parent?"

"Not exactly. It's about your life back in America." Eugeo just stares at me expecting I understand what he meant.

"What do you want to know?"

"Look, my Dad didn't find out you are abused by your parent. What he found out was that your parent made you do their job since you were small."

"Small? How old were you when you start to work?"

"Me? It was when I was 14, I guess."

"Oh, wow. In just 2 years, you've already become a CEO."

"Thank you. Now, don't change the subject."

"Right, right." I nod my head. "Uh, yeah, they made me do some of their jobs. Mostly it's the same with what I'm doing now, but it was more painful, I guess." I laugh nervously.

"I still don't understand why you don't want to report this, Kaz."

"Like I said, they can do anything they want. And I'm just a 16 years old boy who survived a death game. They'll say I've lost my mind." I say throwing my hand in the air. Eugeo doesn't say anything, he just looks at me in pity. "Don't give me that look, Eugeo."

"Do Asuna knows about this?"

"She doesn't know that I was abused. She just knows that I don't have a normal life."