Great day to be Alive! The President’s Daughter Wants Me to Marry and Spoil Her ~ Spending Time With a Flawless Beauty in a 3LDK (LN) - Chapter 1: Tower Mansion (2)

Translator: Kanenashi
Editor: SevenTails

Chapter 1: Tower Mansion (2)

“Wh-What do you…”

“… I’ll tell you exactly how it all started.”

Ignoring my confusion further deepened, Tojo-san started talking.

Vaguely, really vaguely, and maybe just from my imagination, but she seemed to be shaking.

She looked like she was embarrassed and panicky.

Her face started reddening, and her eyes seemed to be wandering. In any case, it was clear from her appearance that she was not calm. Although she said that in a collected manner, maybe she was quite nervous—?

“Actually, I’ve been watching you all day.”

“Eh?”

“It is no coincidence that we met at your part-time job today. Thanks to the help of my family and the Tojo Group, I gathered information and found out where you work, which led me to that place.”

Her story did not come easily to me. Why and how preceded everything, and I couldn’t imagine or consider the situation.

“I’ve been interested in you… for a long time. You get tired and worn out day by day. Your friends approach you, but you don’t take them up on their offer, and you leave school at the end of class every day. You have a single pastry for lunch… and I just couldn’t help but notice that.”

Tojo-san was speaking as if to ascertain each and every word. In stark contrast to earlier, there was no shame or embarrassment anywhere. If anything, she gives the impression of a young child telling her mother about her own misdeeds. If you look at it with the slightest bit of calmness, what Tojo-san did cannot be said to be decent.

If it was someone else, they could have gotten identified as a stalker.

“And… I already know what happened to you.”

“!?”

Tojo-san continued her story from there.

“Just before entering high school, Haruyuki Inamori’s parents’ car got rammed by a truck driven by a drowsy driver, and they died from the impact. The truck has enough momentum to destroy the car and plough into a nearby telegraph pole, resulting in the driver’s death on the way to the hospital.”

“All that remained for Haruyuki Inamori was a consolation payment from the driver’s company and his parents’ inheritance.”

“However, relatives wanted to take advantage of the considerable amount of money and tried to bring Haruyuki Inamori in. In order to smoothly reject them, Haruyuki Inamori gave away all of his property except his school fees and lives alone while earning his living expenses through part-time work—.”

“Everything… so you know everything…”

I just kept quiet about my past because it wasn’t something I thought someone would like to know. So, I wouldn’t be angry if she found out.

But I thought she might get disillusioned because of my tarnish or something like that. I was just a kid who kept up foolish impressions, maybe. I would imagine that they would have thought of me this way, and I would instantly feel anxious.

“… It’s not just that kind of past that I’ve come to know.”

She gently laid her own hand on mine, being very careful. Tojo-san’s fingers were a bit cold, as her body temperature seemed to be lower than mine.

“In watching you, I have learned of your kindness.”

“Kindness…?”

“Yes. At your convenience store part-time job, you covered for your colleague when they made a mistake, and at your part-time job as a traffic guide, I supported a worker with a bad back, even though you were tired too.”

“That’s not really a big deal…”

“You know what else I know? You always give up my seat on trains to pregnant women and elderly people, and I’ve seen you carry an old lady with heavy luggage on your back across the traffic lights at least twice in the last six months or so.”

Six months ago? How long on earth have you been watching me? I’m not angry, but I was starting to feel a bit scared.

“You must be living a hard and inconvenient life yourself every day, yet you don’t hesitate to reach out to anyone in need. I fell in love with that about you. Of course, that’s not the only reason, though.”

“But I… just did what I was supposed to.”

“I have come to love someone who could do those things as a matter of course.”

She smiled as she told me this, and I felt a gentle glow like moonlight.

She had a beautifully shaped face and silver hair, something rarely seen in Japan. She also had a mysterious atmosphere, and the word ‘goddess’ suited her best.

‘Be a person who can help others.’

Those were the words my parents left me, something I kept even after they were gone. And because I tried to be that kind of person, my relatives probably saw me as convenient.

Maybe my way of life is wrong—I would be lying if I said I never thought that way. But just because Tojo-san affirmed it, I felt strangely relieved. I feel like her words had that kind of weight to them.

“To be told that by someone like Tojo-san… something like that makes me feel glad to be alive.”

“I am also very happy that Inamori-kun is alive here and now.”

Maybe she really is a goddess. I became terribly embarrassed and scratched my cheeks to cover it up.

‘So—Will you marry me?’

… That might be a different story.

“I want someone like you by my side and to spoil you until you’re mellow… No, until you melt! That is, until the point where you can’t live without me! It is no longer an exaggeration to say that this is my fetish!”

“Eeh…?”

While striking a stylish pose in vain, Tojo-san declared so clearly. Seriously, what is she talking about? 

My head instantly cooled down at the sight of such outlandish statements and actions.

“If you marry me, I promise to support you for the rest of your life. I will not inconvenience you until you live out your natural life.”

‘That sounds like a… gratifying story, though.’

I’m honestly starting to worry that the story is so good that it feels like I’m getting recruited into some cult. All the talk up to this point might’ve been to bind my mind, and it may have been a kind of brainwashing act—.

“Could it be that I seem suspicious?”

“Because… It sounds too good to be true.”

“Mu. Then, I guess I need to explain a little more properly why I fell in love with Inamori-kun.”

Tojo-san returned to the tension from earlier and took a sip of the tea she had brewed.

‘Fuu… Inamori-kun, do you know what kind of character I am?’

“I haven’t spoken to you properly, so I don’t know the details, but I’d say… you have the image of a cheerful person who gets on well with everyone and is kind to everyone.”

“Good. Seems like that is how I appear before others.”

She patted her chest in relief. 

I wonder if I heard her wrong. If you take her words as they were, it would mean that Tojo Fuyuki is not the way she usually is.

“When I was in junior high school, I spent my days surrounded by friends, just as I do now.”

But the reality was quite different. Tojo-san started talking with discomfort evident on her face.

“One day, they asked me, ‘Share your allowance. We are friends, aren’t we?'”

“Ah…”

“Those people had no actual interest in me. I guess they perceived me as just a money-grubber. So from high school, I always tried to be at the centre of things so that I wouldn’t get pigeonholed, so as not to antagonize the people around me.”

Ah, so that’s why.

“It was moderately vain to know that people only saw me for my possessions and not for my person. So I can sympathize with your feelings when you got separated from your relatives, and I thought that if you understood those feelings, you wouldn’t approach me with ulterior motives either.”

“…”

“Don’t you think we could lean on each other?”

I found myself almost convinced. After accepting what I’ve just heard, another part of me got even more caught up in it.

“But that’s why I would be marrying Tojo-san? If I tried, wouldn’t that mean I’m after money too?”

“It doesn’t matter because I’m proposing!”

“Eeh…?”

“In the first place, I am the one who is trying to catch Inamori-kun with money, so it’s fair and square.”

Really? No matter how much she explained it, it seemed like a ton of crazy theory, but it somehow made sense in her mind.

“I’m supposed to take over the Tojo Group from my father when I graduate from university. While I am still in high school and university, I have to take care of a simple business as a learning experience. Actually, this house wasn’t bought by my father, but with the profits I made.”

“What?”

“… Well, the purchase was done with a loan with my father as guarantor. But what I’m trying to say is that I’m confident that I won’t inconvenience Inamori-kun at all! But! Life is not sweet in any way! Of course, there are things I need you to do!”

“W-What do you even..?”

She glares at me with the sternest look on her face.

“I’ve just come home from a hard day’s work, and you have to spoil me to the max!”

“… Hm?”

“When I come home, you stroke my head, bathe with me, eat dinner with me, and sleep in bed with me in your arms! I ask you to do this without fail every day!”

“Um, chores and that sort of thing…”

“I leave the cleaning to the nanny, and I definitely cook the meals. Cooking is my indispensable hobby, and I’m not going to give that job to anyone, even if I have help!”

The momentum was incredible.

“If I had to tell you the hardest thing to do, I would say….”

“You would say…?”

“… I want you to remain kind.”

Tojo-san’s eyes squinted as if she were looking at something dazzling. When I look at her, she has the same kind of eyes. Could it be that Tojo Fuyuki harboured feelings of longing for me? It was a fact that happened right before me, but it didn’t feel very real.

“I want your kindness. I want you to stay by my side until the light of my life goes out. And I want you to be in the same grave with me and, if possible, live with you in the next life.”

“I can’t guarantee that, though…”

“It’s not about reality! That’s how strong my feelings for you are.”

Maybe it’s because she was so passionate that it didn’t sound like she was lying, even though it made no sense.

But Tojo-san and I have never really been involved before, and no matter how much the other side says they’ve looked into me, there’s still too much about Tojo-san from my point of view that I don’t understand.

“… Let me get this straight. Is it correct to say that Tojo-san likes me, and in exchange for entering into a marital relationship, she will support my future life…?”

“Yes, I would very much like you to be my pimp.”

Badly phrased.

“Of course, Inamori-kun is not yet old enough to get married, and we will not be registering you immediately. When you graduate from high school, we will register and officially become husband and wife. Until then, we will remain engaged.”

“If that is the case… what will happen to my university education?”

“If Inamori-kun wants to go, I will pay for it, and if he doesn’t, he can stay at home. Of course, if you want to work, I will support that too, albeit reluctantly.”

Tojo-san didn’t want me to leave her side.

If I work, I would have less time with her, so she might think it’s better for me to stay at home.

She’s too good a talker, after all.

I don’t need to work, and my life will be just about loving Tojo Fuyuki, someone who could be called eye candy and a beautiful girl. As a man, it may be pathetic, but it’s impossible not to be attracted to such a life.

But,

“Mu… stubborn, aren’t you? I thought you would accept me more readily. Am I that unattractive?”

“It’s not that you’re not attractive, but… I have too many concerns.”