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Chapter 193 – The Taisho Demon

(Somehow, the way this person and I ended up crossing paths feels strange.)

One day in early April, just after the new school year had begun, I was meeting with Hara Takashi, formerly Prime Minister, now more like a power behind the scenes and a heavyweight of the Seiyukai, inside the most luxurious and heavily secured suite of the Ootori Hotel.

Hara Takashi was still alive thanks to the foresight dreams of the previous “Dreaming Miko.” Because of those visions, the Ootori family had used a “reporter” from the Imperial Nation Newspaper, which belonged to the Ootori zaibatsu, to stop his assassination.

The attempted assassination took place in 1921, so the Hara Takashi before me was from roughly ten years later. Compared to the photographs I had seen in the sea of the internet and in books during my previous life, he certainly looked