After a round of preparations, the grand banquet finally began.
"Welcome, everyone, to the clothing competition between Bodhi and Rokujo, two major brands." The host held up a microphone, setting the mood. "The competition will take place tomorrow evening. Today is a rehearsal, so please enjoy tonight's banquet."
The first step of the banquet was tasting red wine. Rumor had it that the organizers had prepared Romanee-Conti from a French Bordeaux Winery.
Jiang Xia sat among the guests and watched the lobby manager lead several waiters around with bottles of red wine, pouring drinks for each guest. But when they reached his table, the waiters seemed to have received instructions beforehand and detoured away.
Jiang Xia: "..."
Over on the other side, Inozuka Jiro, dressed in formal attire, glanced in their direction from afar. When he saw Jiang Xia's wineglass filled with juice, he silently sneered. "..." Providing minors with tobacco or alcohol could lead to police accountability if reported. With so many people here, he would not fall for that crafty high schooler's trick.
That guarded fellow was truly underhanded, trying to secretly steer the police into joining his rescue. Fortunately, he was sharp enough not to fall for it.
Inozuka Jiro: "..." Besides, he had to make a note of this. Once they found concrete evidence against Hashimoto Maya, he would report it all to his superiors together.
Surely, conduct tantamount to betrayal would be enough to cover up his minor mistake of changing the detention location on his own authority—after all, from what he had observed, those executives were all top-tier men of action. As long as the objective was achieved in the end, they would not care too much about the process.
Jiang Xia was idly turning his juice glass in his hand when he suddenly