Chapter 55 – Birthday Party, Once Again
On April 11, a birthday party was held for me, Ootori Reiko.
It probably won’t be long before it’s no longer just “held” but elevated to something on the scale of “hosted” or “staged.”
That said, getting to the point of actually holding the party was a major ordeal. It was so difficult that it had to be postponed for a whole week.
A birthday party postponed by a week—how does that even make sense?
But realistically, holding it on my actual birthday, April 4, just wasn’t going to happen.
In Japan, the Ootori Zaibatsu had just finished bailing out the near-collapse of the Suzuki Group (a fellow zaibatsu), essentially swallowing it whole. And at the same time, the Ootori Group itself underwent a major restructuring.
Between the merger, streamlining, and organizational reshuffling, both the zaibatsu and the clan were thrown
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