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"Okada, if you return to our country right now, we can pretend nothing ever happened. Hey, Okada?"
Izumi Seijiro hadn't realized that Xiao Okada had already hung up the phone, and continued to speak a bit more before he noticed. Then, angrily, he threw Sakai Shinichiro's phone to the ground, stomping on it while yelling "Idiot."
"Listen to this, what do they call 'commercial behavior'? This is clearly defection, and it's a premeditated, planned defection. I suspect he had been preparing for it all along. Why else would he learn Chinese?!"
The executives from JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries watched the president ranting, silently taking two steps back.
They had been quite concerned about Masashi Okada, but no one had imagined that the chief designer would flee, taking a whole slew of his followers with him.
