Chapter 256 – Sham Engagement

“I have no problem at all with Reiko’s plan. So my real choice can be Reiko, right?”

“As if that would be okay. Read the room, you self-important jerk!”

The words that followed Katsujirou-kun’s ready agreement made me respond instinctively with my old self from my previous life. Since expressions like “read the room” do not exist yet in this era, some people were blinking in confusion.

We were in a suite at the Ootori Hotel. Members of the Ootori family use it occasionally, but today it was reserved exclusively for me. After all, today was my twelfth birthday. In the banquet hall downstairs, a large-scale birthday party was being held, something extremely rare in Japan in this era, practically the first of its kind.

However, adults would also attend the birthday party, so that part would take the form of an evening