Sonoko Machida could only sigh. "Fate is mysterious; life loves to toy with people!"
If Editor-in-Chief Yamagami hadn't handed the Houbun Division over to her when he said those things, Sonoko Machida probably wouldn't have thought much of it. After all, Sogo Doma looked like he had a grudge against her. But he'd said all that while placing the Houbun Division in her hands...
Even now, Sonoko Machida couldn't figure out how things had developed into this. Ever since she'd been forced to take Sogo Doma under her wing, Editor-in-Chief Yamagami had gradually reassigned every author under her to someone else, claiming, "Miss Machida already has it hard enough managing Teacher Tianyu..."
Yet Sonoko Machida didn't feel the slightest bit burdened. After all, even when chasing manuscripts, she did it through Utaha Kasumigaoka. It had once made her wonder whether she was useful at all...
Sometimes, Sonoko Machida even wondered if Editor-in-Chief Yamagami had distributed all her authors to others because he wanted to take the opportunity to fire her.
What made her even more uneasy was that her salary for managing two people was far higher than when she had managed a whole group of them. Could this be what they called severance pay?
Still, it wasn't really Yamagami's fault. After all, he had once been responsible for a certain someone, so he understood exactly what kind of bottomless pit Sogo Doma was. If he made a woman manage that guy without raising her pay, Yamagami would feel guilty!
And it wasn't just Yamagami. When even Undying River's nominal general manager heard who Sonoko Machida was responsible for, he'd proactively suggested giving her a raise. After all, he also knew just how lawless a certain someone had been at the Doma Family estate...
Yes, they all knew!
Sonoko Machida