"What? You were kidnapped?"
"And then the kidnapper let you go?"
"Then, Sonoko, you saw that he was handsome and pitiful, so you were overcome with sympathy and gave him one hundred million?"
"Idiots! You two are complete idiots! You've been scammed!"
"..."
Inside the Beika Café, after hearing the whole story from his two childhood friends, Shinichi was so angry he could stomp his feet.
He couldn't understand how someone as smart as him could have two such foolish friends!
"It's not a scam! I gave it to him willingly!" Sonoko emphasized again.
"Shinichi, can't you think on the bright side?" Ran felt that Shinichi was judging the boy too harshly. "I think Shiraishi-san really wants to turn over a new leaf!"
"Exactly! Otherwise, why would he suddenly let us go?" Sonoko argued logically.
Seeing that the two had been completely fooled and were even defending the guy, Shinichi sighed in frustration. "If he didn't do that, how would you have willingly given him the money?"
"You two are still too naive!"
"You think you gave him the money willingly? In reality, it was a carefully designed scam!"
"Let's call the police... maybe it's not too late to get the money back!"
Sonoko rejected Shinichi's suggestion. "Let's wait until tomorrow! I believe I'll see Shiraishi-san at school tomorrow!"
"It's your decision. I've said what I needed to say," Shinichi said no more. Anyway, this girl had plenty of money.
Letting Sonoko learn a lesson the hard way would make her remember it!
On his way home, Ema Shiraishi opened the Vicious Criminal System to check it.
[Current Mission: Accumulate a total of 100 million yen in ill-gotten gains. Current Progress: 0]
"Tsk, this doesn't count?" Ema frowned when he saw the progress.
It seemed the system didn't recognize this income.
Thinking about it, the money wasn't from an unknown source, so it couldn't really be called "ill-gotten gains."
However, that didn't matter.
Because what was about to happen next would surely allow him to complete this mission.
With that thought, Ema closed the system interface. Following his memory, he soon arrived at an office called "Ushi Ushi Finance."
The office looked ordinary, giving no hint that it was a loan shark operation.
"I'm here to repay my debt," Ema said to a muscular man who was playing on his phone.
The muscular man glanced at Ema, his gaze finally landing on the briefcase. He said playfully, "Looks like you had a good haul, Shiraishi-kun!"
He put his phone away and ran a metal detector over Ema's body.
Ema took out his phone, keys, and other metal objects.
After the muscular man scanned him again and the detector remained silent, he led Ema up to the second-floor office.
"Boss, Shiraishi-kun is here... Looking at the size of his briefcase, he must have pulled off a big job!" The muscular man's smile looked somewhat malicious.
"Congratulations, Shiraishi-kun!" The boss was a skinny middle-aged man, smoking a cigar. "You got the money so quickly! It seems you have a real talent for this!"
"Cut the crap! It was twenty million, right?" Ema opened the briefcase directly, took out twenty million yen, and slapped it on the desk. "Count it and see if it's enough!"
The boss, seeing that at least four-fifths of the money was still in the briefcase, narrowed his eyes and smiled. "Twenty million was the amount from the day before yesterday! The amount is different today."
"This money of yours is from an unknown source, clearly obtained illegally. I'm taking a risk by accepting it, so of course, I have to take a little more."
"How about this? Give me another twenty million yen as a risk fee."
"Twenty million?" Ema was shocked. "You might as well just rob me!"
"Hah! You're right, I am robbing you!" The middle-aged boss laughed, pulling a pistol from his drawer. "Leave the money and get out!"
"You're breaking your word! Aren't you afraid of breaking the rules?" Ema stared at him.
"Isn't that obvious?" the middle-aged boss sneered. "I'm a loan shark, a gangster! If I played by the rules with you, how could I stay in this business?"
"Besides, you know exactly how you got this money, don't you?"
"So what if I rob you? Do you dare call the police?"
"You... you... fine, the money is yours, but you have to give me back my IOU," Ema said as if he had given in, but he still insisted on getting his IOU back.
"Haha, you students really are book-smart fools! Still asking for an IOU at a time like this?" The middle-aged boss was even more amused. "Fine, if you want it, I'll give it to you!"
He put down the pistol and opened a drawer to look for the IOU.
"Alright, take the IOU and get lost!" The middle-aged boss quickly found Ema's IOU and tossed it out.
"..." Ema didn't say anything. He just took his IOU and left the office.
"See him out and lock the door!" the middle-aged boss ordered.
The muscular man glanced greedily at the briefcase but ultimately did as the boss said.
As soon as he left the office, he saw Ema calmly putting on a mask that covered half of his face.
"What are you wearing that mask for?" the muscular man asked with a frown.
"Don't you get it?" Ema said, then pulled out an AK-47, cocked it with a click-clack, and smiled. "Now do you get it?"
"You... you... you..." The muscular man was terrified, yet bewildered. "How... how did you pull out an AK?"
"You're quite curious. Don't be like this in your next life," Ema chuckled and fired several shots into the man's chest.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Three bullets pierced the muscular man's chest. He staggered back a few steps and fell with a thud, half his body collapsing into the office.
Ema entered the office and shouted, "This is a robbery! Hands up!"
The middle-aged boss was busy counting money. Hearing the commotion, he turned his head and was immediately terrified by the sight of the AK-47.
He now finally understood where the boy's money had come from. "Shiraishi-kun! We... we can talk about this!"
"What Shiraishi-kun? Call me Ah Zu!" Ema sneered.
"Okay, Ah... Ah Zu," the middle-aged boss quickly raised his hands. "Ah Zu, don't be rash! You're still young, you have a long life ahead of you!"
"Less nonsense, give me the money!" Ema laughed lowly. "I'll only give you three minutes!"
"I'll give it! I'll give it!" The middle-aged boss saw the muscular man lying on the floor, and his heart turned cold.
He hurried to open the safe, afraid that if he moved a second too slow, the other would open fire.
He deeply regretted not shooting the brat on sight, which had led to his current passive situation.
I need to find a way to get my gun later.
As the middle-aged boss was thinking, the safe opened with a click.
He naturally moved towards the side of his desk and pleaded, "Shira... Ah Zu, the safe is open, all the money is inside. Please spare my life!"
With that, he started kowtowing frantically.
"In your dreams," Ema said, and without a second thought, he emptied the magazine.
He riddled the loan-sharking scum who preyed on ordinary people with bullets!
Besides, this guy didn't play by the rules.
Based on his extensive experience reading novels, a person like this would definitely cause trouble for him later.
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