"That..." Kanako realized, "Some friends, still those friends."
"They are your aides, wanting to escort you to the leader of Xisheng, wishing for you to join the chaos," Honma Noriko gently let go of her daughter, "but don't take these things to heart. Our family will not have a civil war."
A civil war... not happening?
Kanako was astonished.
During her mother's youth, just over 20 years after the company had defeated the Witch, everything was growing wildly.
Honma Noriko considered each of her marriages as a business collaboration, uniting with wealthy men possessed of business acumen and investment capabilities, mutually beneficial, fully embodying the notion that "marriage is establishing an economic alliance."
After a hundred years of expansion, Xisheng had grown to its current scale and had been operating behind the scenes, pushing giants like Kyoto Infinity to the forefront while infiltrating every corner of the Archipelago Continent.
