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“I’m an officer from the First Investigation Division of Metropolitan Police Department Criminal Investigation Bureau, Hitomi Aiko, ordered to investigate the robbery of Chiba Bank,” said a uniformed experienced woman, holding out her police badge.

If Tokyo is Japan’s heart, then the central district is Tokyo’s heart. An armed robbery in the central district is bound to make an explosive news. The Metropolitan Police Department of Tokyo have no choice but to treat this case as a priority, however, Aiko’s investigation has met resistant just from the get-go.

“Senior officer,” the junior officer said with a pained smile, “I’m not obstructing your investigation on purpose, but the suspect’s current condition isn’t suitable for an interrogation.”

Aiko puckered her brows, “You only need to lead me to where she is, whether or not she is fit for interrogation will be up to my judgement.”

“I understand,” the junior officer was forced to nod, and guided her to the detention room.

Originally, there’s only a single bed in the room. Currently, there’s a young girl half reclined on the bed, strapped to an IV drip. On the bedhead is a clothes rack. Medicine bottles were hanged up there. The girl was draped with a cloth, he was staring blankly at something in her hand.

“She’s being treated quite well,” she mocked.

“The offender is a minor. Currently, we have to provide her with medical treatment,” the officer explained.

“Why? Is she sick?”

“The offender already have high fever when the task force arrested her, she has lost consciousness in the car once.”

“She has high fever, yet still rob a bank?” she has never heard of such a diligent robber before.

“Maybe she has a mental condition. According to the offender’s record, she has visited a doctor many times for mental health treatment.”

The senior officer shook her head, “There’s no point in guessing. Let’s chat with this girl a little.”

“If you believe it’s alright, then okay.”

The junior opened the iron door. The door made an ear-piercing sound, but Kana didn’t seem to take notice of it. Aiko walked into the room and discovered that the offender was holding a 10,000 yen bill. Her interest in the peculiar offender only increased.

“Hai hai, Chitanda-ojouchan,” Aiko cleared her throat, Kana finally looked up, “Hello, I am Hitomi Aiko, an assistant inspector of the First Investigation Division of the Metropolitan Police Department Criminal Investigation Bureau.¹”

“Nn…” Kana softly hum, she looked out of vigor.

“About the Chiba Bank robbery this morning…” Aiko suddenly laughed, “it’s rare to see a girl daring to rob a bank with a water gun, and as far as I know, your family financial situation is also well. Why do you still do this?”

Kana was silent for a moment, and then lift the bank note and asked, “Miss officer, do you know what this is?”

Aiko was a little surprised, and answered, “10,000 yen…”

Kana then lift it up to the light, and slowly said, “This is the lifeblood of human society. From America’s film industry, to French’s fashion industry, China’s toy manufacturing industry, Australia’s iron ore mining industry, even to Japan’s unique adult video industry, everything can be converted into this thing and flow through the world, only by grasping this, one can grasp the world.”

‘Chuunibyou’? Aiko silently thought. Aiko replied, “Money is certainly a good thing, but you also need to comply with the law in getting them.”

Kana shook her head, “I didn’t commit a crime.”

“Robbery is a crime.”

“I didn’t rob”

“It’s pointless to deny it…” Before she can berate Kana, her phone rang.

The one calling her was her subordinate. Aiko connected the call, and she was given a surprising news—Chiba Bank refused to cooperate with the investigation. They not only refused to hand over any information, but also refused to press any charges on Kana.

The president of the bank, Morioka Kazuo, even said that this was all a misunderstanding. Because the bank’s customer service was so lacking, the young girl’s mood had soured, that she has made a very unsightly action. Ultimately, it was the bank who needs to apologize to her².

Aiko, based on her many years of investigation, has smelled that something is abnormal.

Kana is a minor, she is physically weak, the weapon she used was a toy, she also didn’t harm anyone, and if Chiba Bank wasn’t willing to press charges either, then after the detention time limit was up, this girl would be able to pack up and go home.

Chiba HQ, Chiba

Aiko only felt that something was amiss, but Chiba Bank’s high ranking officials were vexed.

“How much information about the 88888 was leaked?” The manager of the bank’s audit department asked Morioka Kazuo angrily.

“I don’t know how much exactly that girl has copied.” he said, head facing down.

An uproar occurred inside the meeting room, all the executives berated him at once.

“Enough!” said the president of the Chiba Bank, Maeda Yukiichi. He roared, “How much was leaked is irrelevant! If even only the existence of account 88888 is leaked, we are done for!”

Everyone turned silent, their faces spelled doom.

Account 88888 was originally a deactivated error account. 6 years ago, Nikkei 225 stock market crashed. Chiba Bank suffered huge losses. Kazuo’s predecessor, the ex-Chiba Bank Tokyo branch, entered the losses into account 88888, practicing fraud to make a profit. Because the time coincided with the fiercest competition between other domestic banks, after the general headquarters discovered this, not only they didn’t disciplined the Tokyo Branch, they also expanded the practice to the whole bank. At that year, Chiba Bank became the most profitable bank in Japan.
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Having tasted the sweetness of power, the bank continued to repeat the fraud for a few years after that, the deficit of account 88888 ballooned as time goes on, and now, it is more than a trillion yen in deficit, there’s no way to make up for it now.

“Who is that girl exactly?”

“It’s said that she is the daughter of a landowner in Kamiyama city.”

“How could the daughter a landowner knows about 88888!”

“……”

The existence of 88888 was known only to all the high ranking officials in the meeting room. The girl who has no connection to Chiba Bank not only knows the existence of account 88888, but also its password. It is too bizarre!

The reason Kana knew about the account’s existence was none other than that in her previous life, Chiba Bank was caught practicing a similar defrauding. At that time, this caused the bank to almost go bankrupt, Jili Fund stepped in to cover the losses, barely saving it. But Jili Fund itself also took a hit. So, upon learning about Jili Fund’s existence, she naturally thought of the fraudulent Chiba Bank³.

This is a world where Chiba Bank still wasn’t exposed. Kana’s attentive attitude moved her to search for their financial report of the last few years, spending 2-3 days calculating the details, and she finally determined the existence of account 88888.

“Don’t worry about how she found out about the account,” Yukiichi waved, his mental and physical energy waned, “Figure out how to get her to destroy the evidence, that’s the top priority.”

“The other side gave the price tag of 5 billion…” Kazuo said.

“Is it yen?”

“Yen.”

“Then it’s fine, it’s not much.” Indeed, compared to the account’s 1 trillion deficit, 5 billion is a small number. Nevertheless, his merchant habit still kicked in, “Send someone to see if we can lower it a bit. 5 billion is not that easy to take out.”

“Understood,” Kazuo nodded.

Momokawa hurriedly called a lawyer to visit Kana, only to find out that Chiba Bank had unexpectedly dropped the case. She breath a sigh.

“You aren’t lacking any money, why exactly do you want to make life difficult for Chiba Bank?” Momokawa asked.

“No reason,” Kana laughed, and then looked at the money in her hand, “It’s just rainy day fund…”

1. Richie: I didn’t make this up, she really introduced herself more thoroughly compared to when she introduced herself to her colleague.
2. Richie: Guys, note this down in case you need to excuse your way out of a peculiar situation.
3. Richie: I assumed that Jili Fund made it debut in the missing chapters. If I ever get those chapters, I might change the name. This is the best I can come up with at the moment. I know that this doesn’t sound Japanese, but I reasoned that financial institutions going to foreign country isn’t strange.

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