The Earth After Rebirth

They begged Kiro until he relented and promised to throw a party. But his mind wasn't there, it was on the interviews that he'd have to attend the next day.

He had of course told his parents about this, his father promised to go with him. He didn't turn him down because he was quite nervous about the whole thing.

Philip had joined them for breakfast on the eventful morning, Freya insisted on it. He could start eating by his self once he settled in, she told him while convincing him that he was not imposing.

"You have a lot of friends Ki, it's surprising." Freya commented, having had a full house.

"Why's it surprising?"

"You didn't really have friends at your old school."

Kiro laughed bitterly, remembering that, he didn't have friends at the academy either in his past life. He gained these ones through sheer luck and newfound confidence.

"Loki will start school next year, I should hurry up and apply for him." She said, more to herself.

"They'll beat the rebellious stage out of him, I cannot wait." Kiro commented excitedly.

Loki shot him a deadly look. He smirked in return. Freya broke their internal fight with just a stare. They pretended to be friendly smiling at each other.

"Well Ki, we must go, we don't want to be late." Sekani told his son.

While his father was wearing a black suit. He wore a black turtleneck tucked into his black trousers, with a beige coat on top. He didn't forget the watch Isla bought him.

They were going to the interviews after all so they dressed accordingly. Freya looked at them with so much pride and joy.

"My handsome boys." She wet her thumbs to fix up both their hairs. Kiro's hair particularly had gotten longer after the 3 months of no haircuts.

"Men." Kiro corrected her.

"Isla Silva was it? Is she the one who told you, you're a man now?" She teased.

"H-h-huh?"

Melanated as he was, he was bright red all of a sudden. Freya gave him a naughty knowing smile. She liked the girl, she seemed nice enough.

Sekani basically had to drag Kiro out of there. He was stiff as a statue after that comment. They had hired a driver, he already drove in and entered the estate, he was waiting by the front door.

The car was black with tinted windows, clearly the company car was one in the upper district.

The driver stood by the door, eyes upfront and didn't make the mistake of making eye contact with them. He held the backdoor open for them. Kiro felt weirded out by the whole experience, he wasn't used to it.

"Hey man, having a good morning?" Kiro struck up a conversation, the guy didn't seem older than Philip.

The man's eyes widened, his whole demeanor was broken by the question. He was used to rich people who didn't even acknowledge a driver's existence.

"I'm doing well, sir." He recovered quickly from his initial shock and replied. "I hope you're doing better."

Sekani shook the man's hand and thanked him for doing this for them. He smiled awkwardly, as he was just doing his job, he didn't expect to be thanked for this but it still felt nice.

The car travelled extremely fast. Clearly the driver was experienced, within 20 minutes they arrived at the heart of the upper district. Kiro had never seen so many buildings in one place before.

Some were in the process of being built. This was where business operated in the upper district, there were a very few shops. Most were headquarters of big companies.

"By the way dad, have you registered Waynworth Enterprise? Have you received your patent for the pod?" Seeing all these buildings reminded him of the company his father started.

"What do you take me for? Of course. We even have a bank account. We just need headquarters in all 3 districts but of course in due time.

"What's most important now is to build various production plants for mass production around Sanctauri, that will create more jobs right?"

Kiro's mouth was agape, "you've really thought this through haven't you you. I thought you didn't know much about business?"

"Haha, live long enough, you learn a few things."

Though they didn't see it, the driver slightly nodded at Sekani's insight. He didn't mean to, but the warmth they showed him made him want to know more about them, so he listened to them talk.

"How much start up capital do you think it needs?" Kiro could estimate but he wanted to hear it from his father.

"Mm let's see. To build at least 3 plants for mass production, for marketing the product, a headquarters, hiring qualified people. It probably rounds up to 6 billion." Sekani sighed.

'5.5, but that's still impressive.' Kiro admired his old man.

He'd give him the start up. But he wasn't going to say that in front of a stranger. He stopped asking questions about his venture, and looked out the window, admiring the heart of the upper like a child in a candy store.

Finally arriving at the agency. They were well received.

"Welcome Mr. Waynworth, pleasure to have you both here." The woman said extending her hand to shake theirs. "I'm Kiana, please follow me."

Kiro thought she was cute. As old as she was, she didn't have the elegance, beautiful old people usually had. She maintained her youthful cuteness.

It didn't take long, 5 minutes later the interviews started in the boardroom. It was the two and just Kiana conducting the interviews.

Kiro felt bad that so many people wanted jobs, he felt ashamed he was only hiring 3.

"Can't we hire 4 at least? or 5..." He whispered to his dad. "The yard will be too big for just the 3 of them, I think."

Sekani laughed shaking his head, seeing right through what his son intended to do but he refused to indulge him. They were going to create jobs anyway.

"There's you, and your siblings. The yard will be just fine." He whispered back.

Clearly not intending to spoil their children into not doing simple chores around the estate.

Most of the candidates weren't at all impressive. But 3 managed to catch Kiro's attention, although the butler mentioned he had a granddaughter around age 12. They both didn't mind.

His name was Wilfred Jackson, 45 years old. Already a senior to his parents. His father was a bit sceptical hiring someone older than him but there was no better candidate.

The second was a 25 year old and her name was Vada, no last name. The last one being 40, her name was Angelina Sullivan.