3 bar menu

Chapter 197 – Graduation from the Villain Role

The Ootori family party held in May at the Ootori Hotel’s grand banquet hall, the “Phoenix Room,” struck me as nothing more than lavish.

Since it was a party limited to family and close associates, having already excluded any unnecessary riffraff, it was, by nature, a friendly and harmonious affair. And while the wider world was mired in a recession, the Ootori family seemed utterly unaffected by such troubles.

Precisely because of that, fools who came begging for money and reporters sniffing around for a scoop were stopped long before they could get anywhere close. Layers upon layers of hotel boys and maids, who were, in effect, security guards, blocked them off so thoroughly that they could not even approach the nearby corridors or passageways.

There was no need to even mention the right-wing and left-wing groups who harbored jealousy toward the Ootori family.