I go on dates a few times a month with the woman I’m currently seeing.

I’m Meg, a female member. I’m sorry this doesn’t directly answer your question, but please take it as one woman’s opinion. Going from: > “It’s a hassle to prepare cash every time” to: > “A monthly arrangement as a mistress”— I can understand feeling that way if you’re seeing each other so often… But are you sure it’s a good idea to make it a monthly arrangement? Is that what the other person wants as well? I can only hope it won’t become a source of stress for either of you.

I’m Maezawa from the CEO’s office, and I’ll answer this too. I had always imagined a monthly arrangement as handing over one month’s allowance in cash upfront. > If you know of any options besides a bank transfer, could you please introduce me to one? I thought cash or a bank transfer would be fine, but if it has to be something else, perhaps LINE Pay or PayPay?

Universe Tokyo, Mamiya here. If the amount is too large, you might worry about losing touch after you part ways. How about loading money onto a prepaid card once a month and giving it to her instead? My grandmother refuses cash, but I feel like she’d use it if I loaded money onto her Suica. Alternatively, what about cryptocurrency? It apparently has advantages such as lower fees and shorter transfer times than fiat currency.

I’m Papa-katsu member “Paper Airplane,” the man whose daughter asked for help yesterday because she was too scared to sleep after watching Hirano-kun’s police drama. Last week, a woman around 30 sent me a LINE saying, “I’m retiring to get married!” We haven’t seen each other in a long time, but she still has the cash card I gave her. When I opened a business bank account, I had a personal account left over. Once we could no longer meet often, I gave her the cash card as a form of insurance—or perhaps severance pay. I had deposited a fair amount at first, so I didn’t check the account for several months. Even after a few months, the balance hadn’t decreased much, but six months to a year later, she had withdrawn almost all of it—though she had said she wouldn’t touch the money. Since it used the PIN for the business account, I wasn’t worried even if she found out, and checking the balance let me get a sense of how she was doing, which turned out to be more convenient than expected. Before that, when transferring money to her, I used a Sumitomo Mitsui–related cash card because the recipient’s name doesn’t appear in the passbook—the space is left blank—so you can’t tell whom the money was sent to. As for ways to send money without either of you using your real names, if she lives in an apartment building and you know her room number, you can leave it in the building’s delivery locker. These days, packages can also be delivered safely to apartment buildings under a pseudonym, so you can send one without notifying the recipient in advance. P.S. Another way to send something under pseudonyms on both sides is to order gift certificates or a choose-your-own gift from a department store. Since she probably won’t expect anything to arrive under a fake name, she may be pleasantly surprised. Also, when the carrier was Japan Post, there were times when I couldn’t pick up the package after receiving a missed-delivery notice because I couldn’t verify my identity, so I could only arrange redelivery. It’s probably a good idea to check the delivery method as well.

I’m Tetsu, a male member. This is just my personal opinion, but I prefer to avoid bank transfers. If my account information were ever seen by someone, they might wonder, “Who is this?” and that could cause problems. As an aside, some company presidents transfer their allowance to a mistress from the company account as “salary.” It’s not tax-compliant, of course, but maybe they consider her an expense because she’s the one supporting the president’s motivation, haha.

I’m Kazu, a male member whose lower back is sore from moving my hips too much yesterday. I’ve considered trying LINE’s money transfer feature. Since we already use LINE to stay in touch, it would let me send up to ¥100,000 a day without asking for any additional personal information. With a monthly arrangement where we meet several times a month, though, the amount might exceed the daily transfer limit. P.S. Mac, I’m looking forward to it!