Chapter 431 – Summering in Karuizawa

After the Aizawa Incident had thrown everyone into a panic, I headed to Karuizawa for the second time in my life, just after the Obon holidays. That said, the first time had been a brief trip for fun in the twenty-first century of my previous life.

Even so, looking at the scenery from the car, I could spot several things, such as churches, that were still standing in the twenty-first century as old buildings.

The Ootori family’s residence here was less a vacation home and more a second residence. It stood just outside an old district that had originally been developed as a summer retreat for foreigners.

The entire forested mountain area, which the family had expanded by purchasing additional land in the latter half of the 1920s, belonged to the estate. Within the grounds stood a modest old wooden building and a new