Chapter 11: Two Meetings (Part I)

Izumiko Yakushiji. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is the name of the hammer woman who was saved by Shizune Miyahara, who is neither a high school girl nor a middle-aged woman, but a living OL.

Allow me to use the word alive here.

And she looks like she is twenty-five or sixteen years old, has a figure that can get 90 points, is good at using cold weapons, and can skillfully use the thirty-six hammer method.

Although Miyahara is nosy, after all, if it weren't for him, maybe the end of those two little hooligans would be even more miserable - there is a great possibility that they will be hammered......

But she thanked Miyahara and left her a business card.

With a pitch-black background, plus silver handwriting, Nakamiyahara Jing learned that the other party's name was Yakushiji Izumiko, and a string of phone numbers under the name, which was her contact information.

As for what this lady did, Miyahara had no way of knowing, because after giving the business card, she left in a hurry, as if there was something urgent.

But Miyahara didn't care too much about it, after all, it was just a small encounter, and he didn't expect people to be grateful to Dade, maybe ...... No, it should be said that there is more than a 95% chance that this is a chance encounter in life, and two unrelated people will never meet again in the future.

And the matter itself could not attract his attention, because he had more important things to do today.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, he and Jun Miyahara had already arrived at the Hibiscus Society.

At this time, Jun Miyahara is completely qualified for the job of an assistant, and she will not have any negative subjective emotions in her work, and she can handle the things assigned to her very well, including the fact that she took the manga copyright of the Arslan War Chronicle from Kadokawa before.

And today, although it has just passed the New Year, the Hibiscus Society has already received two important appointments, which caused Miyahara Shizune to start work early.

In the morning and afternoon, he had a meeting with some of the biggest names in the industry.

In these two meetings, the only participants on the Hibiscus Club side were Miyahara Shizune and Miyahara Jun, two siblings, and Vice President Yoshishi Nagabo was busy with the shonen manga at this time.

And who and why the other party will come, it is still unknown.

"At 9 a.m., the Square Enix people will come over, and at 14 p.m., it will be a meeting with Sony Pictures Entertainment." Jun Miyahara flipped through the documents in his hand while reminding his younger brother of today's meeting time.

"Sister Chun, why do you think Square Enix came to us, they don't have any business dealings with us, right?" Miyahara didn't pay attention to her sister's reminder, but asked more realistically.

Not to mention Square Enix in the morning, Sony Pictures Entertainment in the afternoon is a giant among giants, so President Miyahara attaches great importance to these two things, and he is dressed more formally today...... He put on the school uniform.

Square Enix makes game software, and it's also a large-scale game, so it shouldn't have anything to do with a comic book publisher like Hibiscus, right?

"As the president, you don't have a clue, so how can I, as an assistant, know? Or are you knowingly asking again? Jun Miyahara's tone was still cold when he spoke.

When she treats the other people in the Hibiscus Society, she behaves very decently, but this other person definitely does not include Miyahara Jing, and it is impossible for her to be very deferential to her younger brother.

At this moment, Miyahara Jing was choked fiercely.

He shook his head involuntarily, not to mention the legendary telepathy between the twins, there was no tacit understanding between Miyahara Jing and Miyahara Jun......

Well, my sister still knows him well, and he does have a little guess.

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At nine o'clock, Square Enix's men arrived on time.

"Let me introduce myself, my name is Eishi Horie, and I'm one of the heads of the game planning department at Square Enix."

Square Enix has two arrivals, Eishi Horie and his secretary.

Male secretary.

The meeting was still held in Shizune Miyahara's cramped office.

Hori Jiang Rongzhi is a middle-aged man, after all, he can't be young if he can mix with a ministerial-level person in such a company.

"Shizune Miyahara, acting as the president of the Hibiscus Society." Miyahara said succinctly, in fact, he was a little depressed, because he found that he spent a lot more time in contact with middle-aged uncles than with young people.

"Minister Horie, your company is well-known among game production companies, but you don't have any business with our Hibiscus Society, right? We're just a manga publishing company after all, and if you're looking for a manga adaptation, you don't have to look for us, I've heard that you have a lot to do with Shogakukan...... So, what are you here for? ”

Miyahara asked straightforwardly.

"Hehe, since President Miyahara asked so, then I'll cut straight to the point." Horie Rongzhi said, can save some of the boring politeness, he is also happy to see it, "Before, we have a certain understanding of your company, in May this year, you only have a girl manga magazine in circulation, and the circulation of a single issue is about 100,000 copies, now after half a year, your development momentum is very strong, not only the circulation of shoujo manga has exceeded 200,000, and even has begun to prepare for shonen manga...... But your current financial situation is not very good, and now you still have a large loan in the bank......"

"To put it simply, we're optimistic about you, and Square Enix also wants to get involved in the manga publishing industry, so we want to seek cooperation with Hibiscus Society."

The affairs of the Hibiscus Society cannot be said to be very secret, as long as a little investigation can be found out its basic situation, these things can be known, Miyahara Jing is not surprised.

"You want to inject capital into the Hibiscus Society?" He asked.

It's not difficult to understand what Horie said before, Hibiscus Club is short of money, Square Enix is short of comic magazines, isn't this just a hit?

"To put it simply, it's like this." Horie said, then he gestured to his secretary, who handed a proposal to Miyahara.

"This is our proposal, President Miyahara can take a look at it first." He said confidently, as if he expected Miyahara Jing not to refuse this plan.

Miyahara nodded, and then took the document.

In fact, according to his current mood, he didn't want to read this so-called plan book at all, but should shout "Gunara Dark God, look at my Balala energy!" Then he slapped the plan on Eiji Horie's face.

He didn't want to accept any corporate funding at all.

However, he was a mature man, and of course he wouldn't do that, so he pretended to take the proposal and began to read it.

Of course, this is just for show, and no matter how much money the other party pays, he will not be able to sell shares to a company that is stronger than Hibiscus, because then he will inevitably lose his dominance over Hibiscus Society.

It's not that he is too dark in his heart, this is a very simple truth: capital itself is a beast, how can the long side of capital succumb to the side with no funds or lack of funds?

The basic meaning of this proposal is that Square Enix will invest 5 billion yen to buy a 30% stake in Hibiscus Society.

This price is quite generous, because it means that the other party's valuation of the Hibiscus Society is more than 15 billion, but the current Hibiscus Society is obviously not worth so much money.

Of course, they can't be fools, they must have been professionally evaluated, and then optimistic about the potential of the Hibiscus Society.

And the ratio of 30% is okay, so it seems that the decision-making power is still in the hands of Miyahara Jing.

But in the face of this lucrative contract, will Miyahara accept it? Of course, he would not accept it, because he did not believe the promise in the plan that he would never interfere with the management policy of the Hibiscus Society.

What will Square Enix do after receiving the funding?

First, they will send a vice president over, after all, people take the money, and this request is a matter of course.

Second, the vice president will gradually begin to interfere in Miyahara's decision-making, and will interfere in the financial work of the Hibiscus Society.

Third, he will intentionally or unintentionally worsen the finances of the Hibiscus Society, which is not difficult because of the variety of such methods.

Fourth, after the hibiscus society is in financial trouble, Square Enix will increase its stake.

Fifth, after the increase in shares to a certain percentage, Miyahara Jing will be swept away......

Although it can't be said to be inevitable, more than 90% of things will develop like this, so of course Miyahara Jing will not accept their money.

Even if his refusal will lead to any bad consequences, he will do it, he does not want to be swept away, nor does he want to be turned from the owner of the business to a wage earner.

Moreover, although the finances of the Hibiscus Society are tight now, it does not have to need funds from other companies.

"I've finished reading the plan," said Miyahara Shizusaku with a happy face, "I'm personally very satisfied, we are really short of funds, and it would be great if we could get the support of Square Enix, 30% of the shares are within my personal acceptance range, and I am also satisfied with your bid, so I can agree with this plan in the original work...... But after all, Minister Horie also sees my age, after all, I am only the acting president, and important decisions must be approved by my father, so I hope that Square Enix will give us some time to think about it. ”

"That's great, if Ling Zun has any doubts, we can discuss it again......"

PS1: Actually, at this time, there was no Square Enix, Square was Square Enix, and Enix was Enix, but for the sake of convenience, it was handled like this.

PS2: Actually, Square Enix had his own manga magazine in '93, and there were some famous works serialized on it, such as Black Butler, Pandora's Heart, The Hidden King, The Most Travelogue, The Incredible Classroom, Hori and Miyamura, and Youth X Machine Gun.

ps3: Why do you say that the author is a dead house, if someone asks me who the Asian dance king is, then I will answer without hesitation: It's Ayumi Aikawa, if someone gives a set of numbers like 84, 58, 83, I can immediately know that this is the three measurements of the night sword god Shika, because I used this to make the password for some cards back then...... Well, that's a good idea, right?

PS4: Thank you for the black lion in the south and fyyoo for the tip.