Chapter 213 – On the Eve of the Manchurian Incident (4)

“All right, everyone’s here. Let’s begin the strategy meeting.”

After a day and a half on the road, we hurriedly departed Dalian, and in the morning two days later I gathered as many people as I could at the Ootori main residence, my butler, senior officers, and close aides.

In addition, my nominal father Kiichiro and my onii-sama Ryuuya were also present.

“Hey, Reiko. You do realize you’re right in the palm of Master Huang’s hand, don’t you?”

He said that to me the night before the meeting, when I had just returned and gave him a brief rundown. I was already well aware of it.

That was why I snapped back at him.

“Even so, I’m the one who’s going to move. So I’ll do something big enough to spring right out of his palm and give him a real