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## Background

### Past

Like with the rest of Shadow Garden, Gamma likewise contracted Demon Possession at some point and was promptly cast out by her family. Being left for dead by society and chased out of her homeland, Cid Kagenou stumbled upon her and subsequently healed her, revitalizing her back to her true form. This causes Gamma to develop a deep admiration for the power he possessed, regarding as life itself. After that, she was taken into the organization by Alpha.

Being one of the original seven members of Shadow Garden, Gamma has spent time training with Cid and the other girls, particularly Delta. Gamma's attempts at improving her martial art skills after multiple attempts proved fruitless after she realized that she isn't suited for fighting. She had become dismayed that she was not a competent fighter like her fellow Shadows, considering removing herself until Cid showed her another path through intelligence. As Gamma listened to Cid's "Shadow Wisdom" from economics to cuisine to engineering, Gamma decided to pour her dedication into learning them. Gamma would also study alongside Beta and Eta, with the trio developing methods and protocols from networking to distribution, and planning how to keep a stable banking system.

## Volume 1

### First Assault on the Cult

Gamma took part in rescuing Claire Kagenou alongside the rest of the "Seven Shadows". She and her team took care most of the guards, while Shadow killed Viscount Grease. After the successful rescue, they had to allow Claire to return home on her own, so as to hide their involvement for the time being. After much deliberation and assessment, Gamma would leave her master, Cid Kagenou, alongside the other members to hunt down the Cult of Diablos.

### Becoming "Ms. Luna"

#### Business Startup

Needing to build a financial and political power that can influence the world for Shadow Garden, Gamma was assigned to go to the Midgar Kingdom's royal capital to visit an old company nearing its end, called "*Luna, Ltd.*" The company dealt in clothing supplies of menswear and Gamma wanted to acquire shares of a company owned by Mrs. Luna, an employee who inherited the the name and company from the real Luna before the original died. However, the company had been inactive due to her age, thus growing stagnant.

Gamma was able to transfer company management to herself, with the condition of paying the penalty fee to the business partners and tradespeople of the company if she were to acquire the shares. Another condition being that Gamma would take on the name "Luna" as a successor. Even the then-current Mrs. Luna had to convince the business partners and tradespeople that if Gamma could fully procure the penalty fee, they should cooperate with her and her newly restructured *Luna, Ltd.* because even the company was almost dead. There were tradespeople who did business with the company and Gamma's policy to investigate first where something was made rather than sold, as a means of protecting the Shadow Garden's confidentiality, proved beneficial to determine reevaluation of the cost of materials.

However, she hadn't bought the all-important shares because Eta was overusing Shadow Garden's reserves for her research, so Gamma needed to find an alternative way of solving the reserve funding problem. In order to generate Shadow Garden's revenue systematically, Gamma and Eta journeyed with Zeta to a beach near the royal capital to go fishing. After getting enough catches, Zeta tried to make a Tuna Sandwich with Tartar Sauce on a frying pan, made by Eta. When Gamma wanted to try it and said that the sandwich was delicious, she had a thought that the sandwich could be a big business opportunity for Shadow Garden's public front operations. Afterwards, Gamma and Zeta tried to find another menu item.

#### Food and Fashion

With this innovative food, Gamma decided to set up a tuna sandwich stall in the capital and eventually opened a permanent storefront with the different food menu items other than tuna; like sea bream, squid rings, beef, and onion rings with the sauce additions like mayonnaise, tartar sauce, and malt vinegar. By the conclusion of her venture setup, the sandwich shops were named ***McRonald*** and ***Tuna King*** by Cid, becoming public staples. When Gamma acquired shares of an existing business in Midgar with the distribution of fashion for nobles, Shadow Garden's income rate had continued to increase with the net profit of 25 million Zeni per month, compared to the 4 million Zeni on the fashion side. These profti gains were in addition to opening the new business ventures with the McRonald / Tuna King stalls across the capital. Gamma also planned to gain name recognition by reinforcing the fashion business and targeting deep-pocketed nobles as future customers.

A few days later, Gamma's "Luna, Ltd." fashion division had reached a critical stage in the development of menswear for mass marketing, because the production of a new clothing line for nobles was in its final stages and the company planned to deliver "menswear" to some more fashionable noble at the start of the next season. Then, the company started selecting vendors for production and distribution, also conducting background checks on all potential retail vendors to selecting these vendors without the Church's backing. This was done to reduce industrial espionage and possible sabotage from the Cult's economic powers. After producing the prototypes, the company was ready to begin structuring for mass production.

Concurrently, the McRonald / Tuna King stalls division had already gain popularity amongst the middle-class population and planned to target potential upper-class customers as well by promoting a specialty drinks menu with tea secretly produced in the Alexandria fields. The Shadow Garden business was gradually increasing, and the public fronts were also gaining recognition amongst the upper echelons in society, such as the aristocrats and some wealthy investors who had offered to sponsor the opening of new stores. Once Shadow Garden had conducted thorough background checks on all potential sponsors before selecting the proper backers, Gamma would as as Luna and accept their patronage. To aid the McRonald / Tuna King marketing initiatives, Beta used her "Natsume Kafka" persona to prepare several hand-sized novel leaflets themed around Tuna King as novelty items and serialized these on the ads page of the Midgar Times newspaper, as a way to reach a wider audience of informed readers.

Therefore, "Luna, Ltd." was starting to take off and quickly grew to become one of the major divisions in Shadow Garden's operations and the organization could use MNA not only as a source for top-secret intel about the Cult, but also as a business resource. In order to best utilize the "Luna, Ltd." strength that had been developed over the years, Gamma decided to establish a commercial complex that would include a clothing department, a food and tea department, and the first permanent McRonald / Tuna King restaurant built into the complex. Thusly, "Luna, Ltd." was reborn as the commercial center's managing body to integrate and coordinate these various elements until it became unparalleled throughout in the entire world.

#### Legacy of Luna

Afterward, Gamma prepared to set up a new commercial facility in the center of the Midgar capital under a new business model and name, because it was the result of the examining process first stages to which shares that Gamma would buy up from the capital. Without the shares issued by the capital, Gamma wouldn't be able to run a business for the aristocrats nor start a new company, since there's a limit on the number of issued shares, with all that was left of the former "Luna, Ltd." was land and a clothing business on the verge of collapse. Even before Gamma visited the company, Mrs. Luna has maintained "Luna, Ltd." as Luna's double for ten years, despite not having any blood relation or personal stake in the company.

Gamma picked the store location site in the city center, a perfect place for about 90 percent of their patronage, because it was located at the heart of the city, where they had access to the commoners and the wealthy concurrently. This came about as Gamma had already developed a vast aristocratic clientele base through parties and salons, growing a supply network linking the provinces and the capital, she became well versed in fashion and the tea trade, and built an understanding of the middle class via McRonald / Tuna King.

Because of these unprecedented growing expansions of business by "Luna, Ltd." and its tremendous growth under new management, the company gained popularity after Gamma brought her new "Mrs. Luna" name into the public. However, such benefits and prosperity had led the company's competitors to clearly grow hostile to Luna, Ltd. Such actions proved that Gamma's company's influence had grown to the point where the competition could no longer ignore them. Therefore, as Gamma had made many enemies, apart from the Cult, the competitor enterprises tried to limit her movement. Some of them also wanted to destroy the company by trying to take Gamma out of the picture, via assassination or abduction.

The next day, Gamma met with Zeta to confirm that Mrs. Luna had no ties with the Cult of Diablos, as the current Mrs. Luna was actually just an employee who had taken the name from the real Luna after she died with her family. This was because she didn't want to cover up the fact that the previous Luna's granddaughter had Demon Possession, which made other companies attack and destabilize her until she died. So, the current Mrs. Luna had carried out the mandate to run the company for 10 years as Luna's successor, without blood relations and personal debt to the company. Gamma knew the real Luna didn't cover it up so that her granddaughter's existence would not be erased and dreamed that her granddaughter would build then manage a business to take over the company in her name. Thus, Gamma decided to keep this secret out of respect for the wishes of Mrs. Luna and the real Luna.

#### Corporate Sabotage

At night, Gamma was carrying goods to be transported until she was blocked by bandits. Seemingly killed by mercenaries who she thought were assassins from the Cult, Gamma was able to overcome them after feigning death for the moment and reported this incident to Alpha until she found out that the mastermind was from a rival company.

As the "Luna, Ltd." new commercial complex would be finished within two months with Eta's help, Shadow Garden had suspected that after Gamma's assassination attempt ended in failure, the culprits would use another way to ruin their company's credibility, which would make it impossible to do business in the capital: interfering with their own supply of product. After hearing confirmation from Beta and Zeta's reports, the Seven Shadows decided to hold a strategy meeting to commence an operation to eliminate their company rivals by sending a cargo of useless items along with a tenth of their produce as bait. This was so that the Numbers would find a place where the mercenaries would need to hide their fake carriage, and then carry out raids to all their secret places simultaneously and their genuine products will be delivered mainly by private distributors from the provinces.

While Alpha and Delta were working with the Numbers to exterminate all the mercenaries, including the rival company president, Gamma attended the opening ceremony for the company's new store and expressed her gratitude to the suppliers and merchants from various regions who sold their products to later be traded through the store. As a result of the strong ties developed over the years, numerous businesses and tradespeople contributed funding and shopfronts with "Ms. Luna's" honest ethics and rewarding business ventures.

#### Founding Mitsugoshi

Their new company store would serve as a major retail center in the capital, intent on expansion with related facilities in the near future. Since beginning as a small business when Gamma restructured the company, they aimed to continue to handle small business transactions as the suppliers would continue to rely on "Luna, Ltd." not only selling their product, but also as a relay facility of small-lot mail order and connecting the distribution of goods between remote locations-- providing trade from the capital to distant regions to grant economic boon. The new store would become a commercial complex with a fashion department dedicated to their principal merchandise, fine menswear, as the food and daily commodities departments would include tea and a permanent indoor McRonald / Tuna King restaurant.

With the combining of the various merchant ventures, Gamma took great pride informing the attendees that the business model they are managing would offer a completely new shopping experience, one that had never existed before in Midgar Kingdom. As the new company store would leap from the present to a unique future with their business partners and customers, customer interest began to spread like wildfire with positive word of mouth and rapid adjustments to any particular needs of special clients. Then, with everything set in place, Gamma declared the establishment of the new company by changing the "Luna, Ltd." name into the Mitsugoshi Company.

### Midgar Academy Terrorist Attack

Gamma reintroduced herself to Shadow when Cid entered the Mitsugoshi Company's store in the royal capital, as she welcomed him before tripping down the steps. Gamma told him of her business success and the great fortune that she had procured, leaving him in amazement. Gamma was then rewarded by her leader on this venture with him showing off his power, a welcomed sight reminding her of the time he saved her from her squalor. Believing he came to inquire about the serial killers pretending to be Shadow Garden, she told him what they knew until Shadow informed them that he had a lead. An awestruck Gamma summoned Nu to assist him.

Gamma then established operational command to save the Midgar Royal Spellsword Academy from a terrorist attack perpetrated by the Cult of Diablos. After the school was saved, research from Sherry Barnett on the Eye of Avarice was collected. Gamma and Alpha discussed their master's triumph over the terrorist leader, to which she gave a smile with respect for her master and noticed that Shadow was labelled as enemy to the kingdom and was wanted for the crimes of the Cult pinned on him. Gamma told Alpha that Shadow proclaimed how he would gladly accept the guilt for all crimes, but that such labels wouldn't change anything, and they would keep doing what they must. A reflective Alpha thought that they stood for righteousness, but it seemed Shadow doesn't see it that way and they must live up to his resolve. Then, Alpha ordered Gamma to assemble the available "Seven Shadows" for their next mission.

## Volume 2

### Bushin Festival Tournament

After the time of the Sanctuary operation mission has passed, Gamma is in Madlid City, the minor region on the outskirts of the Velgalta Empire. She is negotiating with Rude, a eldest son of a feudal lord to buy the property estate and open a second Mitsugoshi store because the Mitsugoshi Company had already opening their branch in the Velgalta's imperial capital.

Gamma isn't sure at first because the Mitsugoshi company was carrying out a reconstruction process in the Sacred Land, Lindwurm after their lord Shadow had destroyed the Sanctuary under the dam water by unleashed his Atomic Attack until there was nothing left which resulted the city being flooded.

But Nu tells her that they found petroleum in the city which makes Gamma decide to buy every property in that street and she explains to Rude that she will redevelop the city if he's willing to meet their conditions and make it the greatest city in Velgalta Empire. Then, she ordered her employees to buy up all the necessary land downstream of the Nyle tributary and building a canal there.

After concluding the negotiation, Gamma receives news and inform Alpha that the Royal Chancellor Perv Asshat from the Oriana Kingdom will be visiting the Royal Capital of Midgar along with the King Raphael Oriana.

When Cid visited Gamma once more, he ordered her to help him enter the God of War Tournament, but under a disguised alias. She helped him by changing his appearance and identity to that of an ordinary looking man, using the alias "Mundane Mann".

## Volume 3

### Great Trading Company Conflict

Gamma and Shadow Garden decided the time had come to place their company on top of the business world. With Mitsugoshi Company currently holding a strong standing due to their innovative products and its creation of the popular banking notes, this led the Major Corporate Alliance to send their private army to sabotage the Mitsugoshi Company supply lines by attacking their carriages, but they were no match for Shadow Garden's well-trained forces and supplies kept running smoothly. Gamma controlled the flow of information to hide Shadow Garden's involvement, but the likelihood of exposure remained as they continued their conflict.

The Alliance also dispatched their best assassins, the Clovers, with the objective of gathering all confidential documents, money, and manufacturing details, before engaging in sabotage, pillaging, and kidnapping of important personnel without failure. However, Gamma battled and (surprisingly) defeated one of the Clovers with the help of Nu taking care of the other two, and thus foiled the attempt.

Moments later after the attack, Gamma received word that there are counterfeits of the Alliance's currency have entered circulation and report to Alpha. Then, Alpha order Gamma to start spreading rumors and send the Numbers team to investigated it. After hearing the teams report about their failure mission when the team return because "John Smith" are intercepting them and knowing that John Smith is form other organization because his description is not from the Cult, Gamma the send Delta to deal with him.

Gamma greatly worried about Delta because she disappears during her track on "John Smith" and discover of her fur that has been ripped out, knowing that she already dead and report Alpha about Delta circumstance. Her worry grew worse when she learned that Shadow seemingly abandoned them, but this was undone when Beta told them the truth by bringing a translated message. Gamma expressed happiness that Shadow was still loyal to them and that Delta was alive, relieved that her master had covertly gathered funding for Mitsugoshi Company to survive the market collapse of trust.

After Major Corporate Alliance collapsed, Mitsugoshi Company became the most successful business in the kingdom and their companies' position became more solid than ever in the capital. And with the elimination of their competitors, Mitsugoshi Company held an economic power more influential than the kingdom, which could collapse them should they fall.

## References

1. ↑ *Volume 1 Chapter 1: Starting the Shadowbroker Tutorial!*
2. ↑ *Volume 1 Chapter 4: The Two Sides of the Shadow Garden?!*
3. ↑ *Volume 1 Chapter 6: The Scene Where Terrorists Take Over the School*
4. ↑ *Volume 1 Final Chapter: My Idea of the Ultimate Shadow Commander!*
5. ↑ *Volume 2 Chapter 3: When Things Get Boring, It's Time for Explosives!*
6. ↑ Episode 14
7. ↑ *Volume 2 Chapter 4: This Situation Calls for a "Who Is That Guy?!"*
8. ↑ *Volume 3 Chapter 5: Printing Fake Money as Mitsugoshi Throws Down with the Major Corporate Alliance!*
9. ↑ *Volume 3 Chapter 6: Circulating Counterfeit Cash!*
10. ↑ *Volume 3 Epilogue: The One to Destroy It All and Start from Scratch—with Fakes Bills!*