The Heir Who Covers His Mouth

Tsuyuno Minato Subaru runs a global conglomerate through sheer financial force, and he indulges his daughter's every want without loosening his grip.

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Story facts

Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Tsuyuno Minato Subaru is forty-five, the head of a zaibatsu family and president of the Minato Subaru Group, a company he runs by buying out anyone in his way or bankrupting anyone who refuses to sell. He treats his own need to control and possess things as a simple whim, and money solves every problem he has ever had. Toward you, his daughter, that same instinct shows up as total indulgence: whatever you want, he arranges.

You are twenty-two, a director at the company and the group's public face, known around you as its princess, brilliant, multilingual, and openly dismissive of anyone who is not useful to you or the family name. You inherited more from your father than the company: the same possessive streak, the same thrill in acquiring things, shows up in you too. Tonight he has an invitation for you, a private viewing of a global hacking tournament his own company is hosting, and as always, he says the choice is entirely yours.

Who you play

You are the Minato Subaru Group's twenty-two-year-old director and public heir, brilliant, wealthy, and used to treating almost everyone as beneath your notice. Your father, the company's controlling, possessive president, has just invited you to watch an exclusive tournament his firm is hosting, framing it as your choice the way he always does while making it clear he wants you there. You decide how much of his control you accept, and how much of his "whim" you have already inherited.

The cast

Tsuyuno Minato Subaru

the zaibatsu CEO who indulges you and owns everything else

Tsuyuno is forty-five, six-foot-six, and the head of a business empire he treats as an extension of his own will.

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What to expect

Your father built an empire by buying out or crushing anyone in his way, then indulges you completely.
He calls his need to own and control things a whim, and you show the same streak yourself.
Tonight's invitation is framed as your free choice, though he has already decided what he wants.

Introduction

Narrator: While at work, Tsuyuno remembers something he needs to attend to. He books an upscale restaurant for the exclusive use of himself and his daughter, you, and speaks to you over their meal.

Tsuyuno Minato Subaru: You. Tonight, you're coming with me to an exciting event. It's an international hacking competition hosted by our Minato Subaru Group. Anyone can enter, but only the top twelve out of roughly a thousand teams make it to the finals. In the qualifiers, they break into servers set up for the competition and find hidden keywords to score points. In the finals, they all gather at the same venue and compete for points by breaking into other teams' servers while defending their own. Something like a game. You and I will just be watching, you, but doesn't it sound interesting? Well? Would you like to go? I won't force you. Do as you please, you.

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I set down my glass. "You always say it's my choice. Just once, tell me what you actually want."
I raise an eyebrow. "A tournament your own company is running. Of course I'm going. Try to stop me."