OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)Haru uses all of Trillion Game’s money to get Kedoin a controlling stake in God Production, securing Trillion Game as a household name, but Gaku has misgivings about the rest of the company being used as pawns.OUR TAKEWe have officially hit the halfway mark for the season and possibly series, and with that we also reach the end of this arc and a big push for Haru and Gaku’s pursuits of making it to a trillion dollars…though some real life billionaire might make it there before them at this rate. As mentioned in previous reviews, this storyline has actually helped me come around a bit on Haru as a character. Before he seemed like a rather one note con man who could pull out a wild solution from his buttocks and save the day, but now we see exactly what kind of challenges he still has to face to contribute in the way that he does. He does need confidence and the ability to bluff, but he also has to know enough about a person or group he wants to manipulate in order for them to gain that confidence. Last episode ended with him using up every single bit of capital Trillion Game had in order to get a controlling stake in God Production, which was quite the gamble, but of course this is the halfway point of the season so it was kind of apparent things were going to pay off in at least some way.In the end, with Kedoin now in control of God Production, it feels nice to see a guy who gave up so much out of faith in a client be rewarded for that by gaining such authority, though the episode also leaves us with a bittersweet taste in our mouths. Gaku pieces together that Haru is just sort of…done with the people at the game company they bought because he already knew they were never going to be able to get his company where they needed to go. Gaku is a bit disturbed by how easily he would dispose of people like that, to which Haru doesn’t have much of a reaction. All throughout this series we’ve been seeing hints at how Gaku will go on to maintain his fortune without Haru, and this may be the first indication as to why the two no longer speak, at least in the flash forwards. Still, I hate to play Devil’s Advocate, but this is also the kind of game that Gaku has agreed to be a part of. He doesn’t want to become a heartless capitalist like he’s seen from groups like Dragon Bank and God Production, but he also has to see the people who work under him as assets to be used. It’s a conflict I’ve seen in plenty of stories about good hearted businessmen trying to maintain their humanity, and it can be compelling at times. Perhaps we’ll see him grapple with this more as we enter the second half of the season.