Tashika ran his fingers through his wiry black hair and contemplated his next move. This Michaelson acquisition must not fail, he thought. He’s my ticket out of the entertainment division. Tashika had been left to stagnate by the purists in the corp, the oyabun distrusting the loyalty of his mongrel blood. Tashika oversaw subsidiaries such as Boromaker, Matrix News Corp, and the sports franchises, but entertainment was a dead-end track at MCT, and he had reached its terminus.