Chapter 272 – Secret Meeting

One day in June.

A secret meeting was being held in a suite at the Ootori Hotel.

The host was my nominal father and grandfather, Count Ootori Kiichiro. The ones attending the discussion were His Imperial Highness Prince Kan’in Kotohito, the current Chief of the General Staff, and Kazunari Ugaki, former General of the Army and current Minister of Foreign Affairs. As witnesses, Takashi Hara and Takaaki Kato were also present.

And for some reason, me as well.

(…I want to run away.)

That was how I felt, but since I had been called under the pretense that Takashi Hara wanted to thank me, there was no way I could just escape.

On top of that, when my nominal father asked me to attend, which was really an order in the guise of a request, there was no refusing him. After