Using Sogo Doma's squandered funds to help him develop potential marriage partners, while taking the chance to reclaim his daughter's heart from Onii-chan's grasp—Keiryu Doma had to admit, he was quite the schemer!
Still, Sogo Doma himself was partly to blame for being so outrageously wasteful. If he had been even a little more frugal in the past instead of spending without restraint, Keiryu Doma could never have played such a hand—if the capital invested had not been so enormous, the Shinomiya Family, the Natsukawa Family, and the like would never have been interested.
So perhaps "every drink and every peck is destined" was not entirely empty nonsense.
Wasn't the head of the Natsukawa Family being tempted by the Doma Family's "lavish generosity" right now? Though it was hardly surprising. As had been said, although the Natsukawa Family was also a top-tier wealthy family, most of its power was rooted overseas. Under those circumstances, their position back home was rather awkward—
There was no helping it. The domestic pie was only so large, and the local elite families had already carved up nearly all of it. If the Natsukawa Family wanted to return and expand, it would be no different from snatching food from other people's mouths. Who would be willing to allow that?
Only a family like the Doma Family, whose industries were almost entirely in untapped markets, would not care whether others came to compete for a share. No matter how much they fought over it, they could not possibly take anything from the Doma Family. Besides, untapped markets were called untapped precisely because there was little capital involved. In many industries, investors were still merely watching from the sidelines, and Keiryu Doma was not arrogant enough to think he could monopolize an entire industry with his family