A Hefty Ransom

Yi Min-Ah stood in the German embassy within the city of Beijing while waiting for the Japanese Empress to arrive. Over the past year, the young woman had been through a rough time. First, she was tasked by Empress Itami Riyo to spy on the Kaiser Berengar von Kufstein, where she was immediately discovered and taken to a black site.

After intense psychological torture, Min-Ah revealed many of Japan's state secrets to the agents of the Reich. Where she was kept in solitary confinement for many months. During this time, her only human interaction came in the form of her conversations with the interrogator. 

Eventually she learned of her foster family's deaths, and in her depression agreed to join the ranks of German Imperial Intelligence for the sake of getting vengeance upon her previous employer, who she blamed for this tragedy.