"I earned a bit from stock trading recently," Fushimi Roku said.
It's not unusual for Japanese civil servants to play the stock market. In fact, before the financial bubble burst, Japan was essentially in a state of everyone doing day trading. Trading stocks isn't a surprise for civil servants; it wasn't as tightly regulated as long as they adhered to information confidentiality and filed asset declarations, the government would turn a blind eye.
"Eh——"
Minamoto Tamako was a bit worried. In recent years, she had often heard stories about this or that person going bankrupt and committing suicide because of stocks, and some executives who used to visit her mother had also misappropriated public funds due to trading stocks, leading to them ending up in jail because they couldn't cover the losses...
Fushimi Roku could tell what she was thinking from her expression and casually explained, "Don't worry, I've already cashed out everything. I don't plan to trade stocks anymore."
