Chapter 152

Akiwara lowered his head, looked at the document in his hand, and couldn't help but weigh the pros and cons.

According to this document, he didn't need to publish any statement of understanding, but accepted interviews from media arranged by Mantanshe, pushing the main responsibility to Takei Kohei and Kihara Daigo.

After this, Mantanshe would also take corresponding measures, hold a press conference to apologize, and point out that it was due to the negligence of management that Kihara Daigo and the other, who had political intentions of discriminating against the Burakumin, made corresponding wrong measures.

And at the press conference, they would arrange corresponding punishments for the two.

At the same time, Mantanshe would also arrange for a large number of media to promote, pushing all responsibility to Kihara Daigo and Takei Kohei.

In this way, Mantanshe could successfully realize "abandoning the car to protect the handsome," changing the public's impression of this incident from "Mantanshe discriminates against the Burakumin" to "Mantanshe's management is not strict, leading to some employees discriminating against the Burakumin."

And through the punishment of these "responsible persons," Mantanshe could establish an image of "turning over a new leaf."

As for the Burakumin political groups, they would have even less opinion. After all, Kihara Daigo, as the head of the department, could already be counted as a high-level official, and the punishment for him could represent the victory of the Burakumin in safeguarding their own rights to a certain extent.

Besides this, Mantanshe had even taken the initiative to contact some persons in charge of political groups, promising to give certain political contributions.

Under such arrangements, Mantanshe, the Burakumin, and Akiwara Yuto could all get the results they wanted.

Akiwara Yuto picked up the coffee, took a sip, and then nodded toward Seto Tamae sitting opposite, indicating that he accepted this Executive Furukawa's proposal.

As a capital giant, the attack on public opinion certainly had no small impact on it, but it couldn't be called a degree of hurting muscles and bones. Continuing to entangle with it was undoubtedly an irrational decision.

No matter how you look at it, this farce had lasted too long, and it was time for him to let it end.

As for himself, it was time to return to the normal process of writing and publishing books...

10:00 AM two days later, Chiyoda Ward, Akiwara Yuto's home.

Akiwara Yuto and Asano Aiko knelt on the tatami in the living room, watching the lit television screen together, with different thoughts.

On the television screen, a press conference was being held.

And sitting on the podium of this press conference were Mantanshe's President, Vice President, and several other high-level officials.

After the press conference was held, the President first gave a speech on the series of events that had occurred recently, and then indicated that Mantanshe absolutely had no discrimination against any social group.

Immediately after, it was the elaboration of the point that had already been arranged: this series of events was caused by the personal behavior and values of individual employees, and Mantanshe absolutely did not agree with it.

And for those employees who made wrong moves, Mantanshe would absolutely punish them severely and never be lenient.

After finishing all this, with the constantly flashing lights, everyone on the podium, including the President, stood up, and then bowed deeply to the many news reporters under the stage at a 90-degree angle, expressing apologies for everything that had happened before.

Seeing all this, Akiwara Yuto couldn't help but feel somewhat emotional. To tell the truth, the series of entanglements between him and Mantanshe had only been half a year, but in these six months, he had spent a lot of mind and energy.

Even some original plans were delayed because of this.

I didn't expect that everything would come to an abrupt end now.

As for the rest, it was to plan well what to write next.

While he was thinking, the phone rang. Akiwara Yuto stood up, walked to the entrance, and picked up the phone. After listening for 10 minutes, he ended the call.

He walked back to the living room and said to Asano Aiko, who was still watching the television screen: "Asano, Ms. Seto just called and informed me of the handling results of Mantanshe for Kihara Daigo and Takei Kohei."

Hearing these words, Asano Aiko turned her head and looked at Akiwara Yuto in surprise.

Akiwara Yuto continued: "Kihara Daigo voluntarily resigned from the position of head of Mantanshe's department, but considering the impact on internal employees, Mantanshe still arranged a job for him, which is to be responsible for warehousing and receiving and sending work at a printing plant in Hokkaido; as for Takei Kohei, Mantanshe transferred him to the Shikoku region and arranged for him to be Kikuchi Tai's subordinate, responsible for text proofreading work."

Pausing, he shook his head and said: "If nothing unexpected happens, they will never be able to return to Tokyo in their lives."

This handling result made Akiwara Yuto somewhat surprised, but it was also within his expectations.

After all, although Kihara Daigo and Takei Kohei were the root of everything, in the matter of the Burakumin, the two indeed carried the black pot for Mantanshe.

Directly firing and clearing them, if the two ran outside and shouted something, it would cause no small trouble.

If someone even committed suicide because they had no source of income, Mantanshe would fall into no small trouble instead.

But in Akiwara Yuto's view, such a handling result was already enough.

For people with status and identity, the most cruel thing is to deprive them of all rights.

And Kihara Daigo and Takei Kohei could originally be counted as people with a certain status.

One was the head of Mantanshe's department, who had a certain status in the publishing industry; and the other was a deputy editor-in-chief, who was expected to become an editor-in-chief.

And according to Mantanshe's handling results, both were sent to remote corners of Japan, and even fell to the point of only being able to earn an average salary by manual labor; besides this, their original interpersonal relationships would choose to break with them.

After all, this society is very realistic. After the two lost their original positions, they also lost the utility value that could maintain them in their circle of contacts.

Even their own relatives and friends might choose to break off the relationship...

Akiwara Yuto sighed and didn't continue to say anything. All along, he had wanted to "retaliate" against these two people.

But when everything he wanted happened, he felt less in his heart instead.

Hearing Akiwara Yuto's words, Asano Aiko subconsciously stood up, and the feeling in her heart was very complicated.

She clenched her fists, not knowing what to say for a moment.

During this period, she sometimes couldn't sleep at night, always worrying about whether Mantanshe would do anything else.

But today's press conference, and the handling results of the two people Takei told by Akiwara Yuto, proved that she didn't need to worry anymore.

After all, everything is over.

She raised her head, looked at Akiwara Yuto, changed her usual expression, and revealed a very bright smile.

"Akiwara, can you accompany me out to relax?"

The moment she saw Asano's smile, Akiwara Yuto was stunned, but quickly reacted and responded with a smile.

"Of course!"