In Aneki’s father’s time, it would have been unthinkable for a woman to be involved in business affairs, much less to rise to a position of power as great as Yukio Watanabe. But times are different now, Aneki thought with a glance at the print on his wall. Women in the business world of Japan were a small change by comparison to things such as the rise of magic, the twisting of a tenth of the world’s population into creatures like orks and trolls, and the world-spanning influence of the Matrix.