Chapter 335 – The Butler’s Return

One day, with only a few days remaining in this year’s summer vacation, two pieces of good news arrived.

The first came from Idemitsu-san, who was conducting exploratory drilling for oil in northern Manchuria. The news was that the test drilling had been a tremendous success. Moreover, he reported that exploratory drilling was already underway at several additional locations I had pointed out.

The second was the return of Sebastian Stewart, who had been in Europe shopping and, more importantly, working hard to help people likely to face persecution by the Nazis find their way out of Europe.

Sebastian’s return had been expected from the beginning, as his stay overseas had only been planned to last around three months. I had already received word of it in late July.

As if celebrating both pieces of good news, the radio was filled with the