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Chapter 154 -After the Presidents’ Meeting

It happened during the Ootori Presidents’ Meeting, when the participants had temporarily split into smaller rooms.

“Tokita-han, about your young lady, how are we supposed to take that?”

“As I mentioned before, she was attending as the representative of the family head, Kiiichirou.”

Speaking in his usual Kansai dialect, Kaneko Naokichi leaned in toward Tokita Takeo, the chief butler of Reiko of the Ootori Count family, and the man who had just regained his position as president of the rapidly expanding Ootori Trading Company.
Tokita, for his part, responded with the same calm composure he showed to anyone, no matter who they were.

But Kaneko waved his hand lightly from side to side at Tokita’s words.

Around them, several others pretended to be engaged in different conversations while secretly straining their ears to listen. The room’s cigarette smoke