I was shocked when a gold-ranked college student said, “I have a papa who gives me 1 million yen,” then actually pulled out a banded stack of bills from her bag. They were real. That day, she had lunch with that papa (lunch only), then met with me in the evening.

I’m Saito, a column writer♪ Since this is a freely chosen relationship, men like that do exist. That said, I don’t know whether it’s still ongoing. Maybe she did something worth paying 1 million yen for, or perhaps the man simply paid because he thought, “I guess that’s how these things work.” Maybe he paid two months’ worth of a monthly arrangement at once. Or maybe it was wages from a hostess club or some other adult-entertainment job, since it was paid in cash. Maybe she was lying to him. I don’t know the reason, though… Showing cash to someone of the opposite sex is something only a scumbag would do. A woman like that isn’t worth 1 million yen. He’s not much of a person.