It was still the day Gan'an Shinomiya came to the Kondo Group...
No one knew what Keiryu Doma and Gan'an Shinomiya had discussed. However, a certain Doma butler who wished to remain anonymous once said that he had never seen Lord Keiryu smile so... wickedly—no, so delightedly!
Was this what one should expect from Young Master Sogo's father? The butler had only ever seen that sort of smile on the second young master's face before.
Keiryu Doma truly was delighted. His move of "buying horse bones for a thousand gold" had worked after all. Everyone else thought it wasn't worth handing over an industry that generated tens of billions, even hundreds of billions of yen a year, to the Shiina Family, but no one knew that he simply didn't care about it. Was a hundred billion yen really that much?
It sounded like a lot. Back then, selling off the entire Doma Family had only brought them a little over a hundred billion yen. Yet what storms had Keiryu Doma not weathered? A hundred billion yen had been no more than the blink of an eye when Sogo had been playing the stock market...
In fact, after the Doma Family rose to prominence, Keiryu Doma had always been fairly laid-back. The only reason he had worked so hard in the past was that he hadn't wanted to see the Doma Family end in his hands. But reality often exceeded expectations. In the time it took him to look away, the Doma Family had gone from teetering on the verge of collapse to rising powerfully. This...
What was it like? Like a patient who had just undergone surgery and was about to begin rehabilitation, secretly swearing that he would walk ten meters tomorrow, twenty the day after, then more the next