Chapter 342 – Iron and Gold

“So Nippon Steel is being established?”

“It feels more like a case of ‘finally,’ doesn’t it?”

After dinner at the start of the week, Sebastian came all the way to the mansion to give me the report personally. He had finally returned to Japan, yet I had hardly seen him lately, so apparently he had gone out of his way to visit even though the information itself was not all that important.

Besides me, the only other person in my study was Shizu, standing quietly in the corner of the room.

“I was prepared to be bought out, you know.”

“It has become almost legendary how the Ministry of Finance bureaucrats turned pale when they saw the Ootori Group’s business plans.”

“We haven’t even reached 200 million dollars yet, and they’re already that fainthearted.”

“Exactly. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Commerce