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Despite being a child, Runa operates on a global scale: and now, she’s set her eyes on creating the famous Shinjuku shinkansen! But Runa’s former life still looms over her, including the catastrophic events of the year 2001. How will she continue to save herself from her distant undoing in the wake of potential tragedy?Series Overview: When the economy collapses in September 2008, an exhausted career woman’s fate is left in flux…until she’s reincarnated! Now she’s Keikan Runa—the villainous daughter of the Keika Group—in an otome game set before the pop of Japan’s economic bubble. Keika Group’s financial situation isn’t great: they’re on the verge of ruin if left unchecked. However, Runa is determined to save both Keika Group and Japan through risky, smart investments. Thanks to an interest in cold hard cash, knowledge of future technology, and her awareness of Japan’s real-world future doom, Runa might just be able to nip the looming economic collapse in the bud. Witness the rebirth of Japan’s economy as Runa uses her knowledge to save her new present from the future!

A Keika employee from the Osaka office clues Runa in to treachery within the Keika Group. Disloyal underlings want to dethrone the Young Lady! The loss of Runa’s savvy leadership would threaten the Japanese economy itself, and she springs into action - but will careful business moves be enough to fend off these snakes in the grass?!Runa’s not just dealing with professional foes. There’s a terrorist plot unfolding, and she’s their target too. But that news only reaches her when she’s already en route to Narita Airport! Is there time to plan a defense before Runa’s train pulls in - and her enemies lash out?

A woman is reincarnated as the villainess in a retro otome game…where she has to navigate the incoming Great Recession of 2008!When the economy collapses in September 2008, an exhausted career woman’s fate is left in flux…until she’s reincarnated! Now she’s Keikain Runa—the villainous daughter of the Keika Group—in an otome game set before the pop of Japan’s economic bubble. Keika Group’s financial situation isn’t great: they’re on the verge of ruin if left unchecked. However, Runa is determined to save both Keika Group and Japan through risky, smart investments. Thanks to an interest in cold hard cash, knowledge of future technology, and her awareness of Japan’s real-world future doom, Runa might just be able to nip the looming economic collapse in the bud. Witness the rebirth of Japan’s economy as Runa uses her knowledge to save her new present from the future!

Reborn as the villainess in a retro otome game, Runa uses future economic insight to rebuild her family empire, and Japan, before 2008 crash.An economic collapse in September 2008 ends one woman's life - but marks the beginning of another path. Reincarnated as Keikain Runa, the destined villainess of an otome game set in modern Japan, she inheres not only a noble title but a looming financial crisis. Armed with knowledge of the future and emerging technologies, Runa sets out to save her family's faltering Keika Group - and avert the economic crash that will define her past life.Written by Futsukaichi and Fuurou, with character design by Kei, this refreshing isekai twist fuses gaming tropes with realistic finance and alternate history. From strategic investments to navigating pre-bubble realities, Runa's journey is as much about economic ingenuity as it is about self-reinvention. The manga adaptation brings these tense, intelligent moments to life, making it an ideal match for readers craving smart, genre-blending tales where being the villainess might just save the world.

Runa's bold financial gambits earn her the title of "Little Queen", but as distrust grows and the clock ticks toward disaster, saving Japan may demand her riskiest move yet.Runa Keikain has done the impossible: she's pulled her family's struggling corporation back from the brink of collapse. But success brings new pressure. Now hailed as the rising "Little Queen" of finance, Runa must navigate rival executives, fragile alliances, and mounting suspicion as her growing influence reshapes the business world around her.Armed with memories of the future, she continues building economic safeguards to protect her family - and Japan itself - from the catastrophic crash she knows is coming. Yet the more she interferes with history, the less predictable the future becomes. Every bold investment and strategic reform buys time, but it also draws enemies who question her motives and fear her power.In this second volume, boardroom maneuvering turns into a battle of wits. As the nation edges toward the new millennium, Runa must decide whether she can truly rewrite destiny, or if some disasters are impossible to stop.