It was their first time to see Shion so angry, but when they heard the origin of her anger, they understood.
"It's those bastards from Wasa Academy!"
Wasa Academy was the competitor and the rival of the Koyo Academy, which was also a famous private university and an education conglomerate in this country.
If most of the graduates of the Koyo Academy worked in important economic sectors, then the graduates of the Wasa Academy mostly worked in the media.
If the founder of the Koyo Academy was a capitalist, the founder of the Wasa Academy was a group of nobles during the Meiji Era.
Regardless, without a doubt, compared to the Wasa Academy, the Koyo Academy was better since it had the medical faculty.
Yes, unlike Shion's university, the Koyo Academy, Wasa Academy had no school of medicine, making their school rank lower than the Koyo Academy.
To have a medical school at the university meant a lot of prestige, but at the same time, it also required a lot of money.
However, the Koyo Academy was more prepared as it had founded its school of medicine early and even had a century-long history, making it even more prestigious. At the same time, it also had its hospitals, which offered a lot of advantages, such as providing a setting for medical education, research, and advanced patient care.
Yes, once again, it requested a lot of money, but the investment was worth it since the hospitals that were owned by the Koyo Academy gave this institution a lot of income.
Still, during her tenure as the chairwoman, Shion thought she would go further by having a pharmacy faculty and acquiring Kyoratsu University of Pharmacy.
This acquisition was good since it would be beneficial to her group, especially when the school of medicine of the Koyo Academy and the new faculty of pharmacy could support each other.
If there was a problem, it was the fact that those who owned the Kyoratsu University of Pharmacy still wanted Shion to give them more money, so this acquisition, or so-called merging in the public, could be done.
Still, without a doubt, this university was as good as hers, and it was only a matter of time before the new pharmacy faculty was born in her university.
However, during this moment, the Wasa Academy suddenly intercepted and showed its interest in the Kyoratsu University of Pharmacy, making Shion extremely furious!
This interception caused many problems since the budgets that she prepared to acquire the Kyoratsu University of Pharmacy would increase, affecting the budgets of other areas that were needed in her group.
So, in the end—
"Everything is decided with the Kengan Match?"
"Yes."
Seeing her boss's answer, Mikoto was a bit helpless. "Is it fine to determine everything like that?" She wondered whether it was fine to determine who would acquire the Kyoratsu University of Pharmacy with the Kengan Match.
While Mikoto didn't think that Shinra would lose, if she were in Shion's place, she wondered how Shion would feel when the deal failed due to the loss of the fighter during the fight.
"It's better this way, so it won't be complicated."
To acquire something, especially one that was expensive, such as a company or even a university like the Kyoratsu University of Pharmacy, was complicated. Many things had to be done, and at the same time, it was also expensive, as it was necessary to give an extra budget for the acquisition team to help her acquire this university.
On the other hand, it was more cost-effective to just pay the fighter to help her acquire this university.
Still, this method had a lot of risk since if the fighter lost, then everything would end up in a failure and all of her hard work would become meaningless as the one that she wanted to acquire would be robbed by others, who won the Kengan Match.
However, with Shinra, everything was different!
Shion had seen Shinra's training, and she had complete confidence in him, especially with the new creation of martial arts.
With the combination of science, money, knowledge, and talents, Shinra finally completed that martial art, which made her happy, and this was why she never said anything, even though he hadn't even entered the school for a single time.
Anyway, she could give him the diploma, so she didn't care much, and she was just happy that her investment ended up a success.
"Okay."
Shinra had no reason to refuse, and he felt that it was good that he could repay Shion soon. Not only did she give him the best facilities, teachers, knowledge, and even tell him many secret researches that he wanted for his new martial art.
At the same time, staying by her side, Shinra also got to know many damnable professors, who had good talents, yet shitty conducts, and also parts of the competitors of Shion's group, so he didn't hesitate and stole their IQ, which made him even smarter.
Yes, at this moment, he had mastered the "Eye of Usurp" better since instead of a complete robbing, he only did a partial robbery, which made him only steal part of the talents, knowledge, or something that he was interested in his target.
What is the advantage?
The advantage of this technique was that it was cheaper and caused less damage to his eye.
As his eyes hadn't reached the Eternal Manekyou Sharingan, he couldn't use his eyes carelessly since the more he used them, the more he would go blind, but if there was something that interested him, then he wouldn't hesitate and rob them as the price was cheap, considering the one that he targeted was just a normal person.
He was also a ninja and had a talent for infiltration from Kiryu Setsuna; nothing could stop him.
Still, regardless, it was time for him to repay Shion, and of course, since she was angry, he had to make her feel comfortable by defeating her opponent completely in complete dominance.
"When is the Kengan Match?" Shinra asked curiously.
"In a week." Shion looked at Shinra and asked, "Are you ready?"
"Okay." Shinra nodded and asked, "Who is my opponent?"
Probably, a character that wasn't even mentioned in the story, someone that he didn't have to pay attention to, but—
"I don't know, but they seem to be confident. Still, it doesn't matter, right? Who can defeat you?"
Hearing Shion's boasting, Shinra didn't argue since if he was serious and used his ninjutsu, then the city would be in ruins, but if it was just a normal martial art and physical contact combat, then it would be different, as martial arts in this world couldn't be underestimated.
However—
"Hmm..."
Shinra wondered whether his entrance to this world caused a certain plot to change, but it didn't matter, he thought, since compared to the people in the world of Naruto, they were nothing.
No, if he lost to those people, how could he even think of having his revenge and changing the world of Naruto?
So, without a doubt, he had to win.
However, a few days after everything had been determined for him to have his first Kengan Match, a big news that shook the entire business community like the biggest earthquake in this country happened, but even so, it didn't stop his first match, and naturally, he was also shocked since—
"So, what do you want to say, Mikoto-san?"
"Ah, no, it's just that I am pregnant," Mikoto said shyly.
"....." Shinra.
"....." Shion and Tomoko.
Regardless, in a week, his first match started!