After glaring at Curacao, Tatsumi Seimaru turned back to glare at Jiang Xia. Did this guy know he was only hired to work? What was he doing trying to hook up with people from their family?!
He was just about to reprimand him when a voice suddenly came from nearby. "Jiang Xia? You're Jiang Xia, right?"
The group froze and turned toward the voice.
A fashionably dressed young woman was walking over.
She wore high heels, with long reddish-brown hair and a coat casually draped over her shoulders. She looked less like a tourist and more like an Aquarium employee.
The young woman's features were somewhat sharp, making her seem hard to get along with. But when she reached them, she gave Jiang Xia a radiant smile as though they were very familiar. "I've been waiting for you for ages."
Jiang Xia looked her over and confirmed that she was not his cat-finding client. "You are...?"
The woman took the initiative to shake his hand and said warmly, "My name is Osawa Michiko. I'm Sonoko's friend. I happened to be free today, and when I heard you were coming, I thought I'd show you around."
As she spoke, she looked behind Jiang Xia. "Where's Miss Sonoko?"
Besides working part-time at the Aquarium, Osawa Michiko occasionally helped out at her family's construction company. Since they moved in the same business circles, she had a bit of an acquaintance with Suzuki Sonoko.
—A truly minuscule acquaintance, limited to the few times they had met when Suzuki Sonoko went to parties to eat and drink for free out of boredom.
But the other side was the Suzuki Conglomerate. Even a little leaked through their fingers would be enough to make her family's company much fatter, so Osawa Michiko had the foresight to try