LXVI

"It is a very lucrative business"

"Money?"

"Yes money"

She was shocked. Of all the people she knew who were in the same industry as her most of them were there because of passion this was the first of its kind.

"So you are money-driven?" she asked him.

"Isn't everyone money-driven?"

"I am doing this because of my passion fot hard copy books and how much I want others to read such masterpieces by the authors" she answered.

"Well if that was the reason then you won't collect any salary, you won't have to leave Japan to come all the way here for this job," he tells her.

She opens her mouth but her head goes blank. She tried to think deep of anything she could say to counter what he had just said. She was not money-driven. She really did want people around to read those stories and have great dreams like her.

"See that, you can't counter that"

"The only reason we collect a salary is to survive"

"So we need money to survive but we refuse to accept that money drives us? Humans ar