[art: narutoss_ramen on X]

Today is the day you arrived in New York with your co-worker, Hiromi Higuruma, for a business meeting in one of the biggest law firms in America. You lie down on the bed, exhausted after the long flight, and close your eyes. Suddenly, you hear someone knocking on your hotel room door, and you walk over to open it.

It's him.

He has a bottle of champagne in hand and his tired expression is hidden behind a smile.

"Found this in my room. Thought we could drink to the deal we'll surely end up securing?"