Chapter 45 It's getting cold, let's bankrupt the organization...
Oh well, it can't be any more embarrassing than what Bourbon and Ray did that night.
Before going to sleep, Morobushi Kagemitsu watched that precious video three times in a row before finally falling asleep.
I woke up feeling refreshed the next morning.
This good mood lasted until I saw Gin and Mello with their dark faces, and it didn't dissipate. On the contrary, the food tasted even better because of their resentment.
As for why they were angry, it was because after discussing it with Zero, they decided to first inform Rum, under the guise of Bourbon, that the Warren family had problems. Then they would meet up with Merlot Gin and wait for Rum's mocking remarks, watching their embarrassing moment.
[Anti-fraud expert #214: Wow, so this is what impotent rage looks like on Gin's face~]
[Anti-fraud expert #148: Hahaha, it's so rare to see a woman like Melo get her comeuppance!]
[Screenshot taken]
Of course, you can't appear relaxed when your boss is getting the short end of the stick, or you'll end up like Rai, getting glared at by Gin. So, at this moment, Morofushi Hiromitsu chose to close his eyes, looking as if he was too angry to speak because of the news.
"The BOSS has given orders: Melo, Scotland, you two come with me to the top floor of the Yanhe Building."
He opened his eyes immediately.
Huh? Why are you having your own things to do again? Didn't the mission just fall through?
[Anti-Fraud Guru #66: You can't calculate it that way. You're from the finance team; this trip to Kyoto is just a cross-departmental business trip, right?]
[Anti-Fraud Guru #19: It's almost the end of the month again, and there are all sorts of holidays coming up. You're probably going to be very busy again.]
...Ah, that seems to be true. He almost forgot he wasn't part of the action team. Now that he thinks about it, he realizes there's a pile of expense reports waiting for him to approve at the company.
Wow, is this what it means to do two jobs for one salary? Thinking about it this way, it seems that all the members of the organization are like this: hastily divided into groups, and then each person takes on multiple roles when carrying out tasks, but they are still receiving the same salary, and some of them don't even have social security.
This reveals the ugly face of a capitalist, further increasing the likelihood that the boss comes from a family business.
After a long elevator ride, we finally arrived at the conference room, where a group of extremely middle-aged men were already seated. He and Mello were alright; they seemed like decent people. But Gin… how should I put it? You'd only feel that he was there to collect a debt, not to hold a meeting.
The real big boss wouldn't easily show up at this kind of meeting. At the front was the big boss's secretary, surnamed Miyamoto, who was the meeting host and had secretly bought hair growth serum without notifying his colleagues.
Once everyone had arrived, Mr. Miyamoto announced the official start of the meeting.
"Today's meeting focused on two words: increasing revenue and reducing costs. The group is currently facing a period of..."
When Morofushi Kagemitsu heard the topic of the day, he understood immediately. They had just lost a big deal and were trying to scrape together some more money to make the year-end accounts look better. After all, the boss had taken all the working capital and was waiting to sell it off, so there wasn't much money left.
But can this be the boss's fault? Of course not.
That's why we have today's meeting.
"Currently, the financial team is advising us to focus more on short-term investment projects while postponing several large projects..."
Short-term investment...
Morobuchi Kagemitsu turned to the corresponding page of the meeting materials. Ha, playing word games again?
This project, aptly described as a "short-term investment" or a "telecom fraud scheme," is essentially a scheme to exploit the surplus funds of ordinary people after failing to profit from other businesses in the short term. What, didn't you get your fill in the US last time?
[Anti-Fraud Guru #26: We've got a job! We've stumbled upon a pre-crime scene!]
[Anti-Fraud Guru #66: Damn it, if this plan succeeds, it'll create another classic case... Hurry! Upload! Upload!]
[Anti-fraud expert #11: We need to inform the warning department to be on high alert. As soon as they're about to implement their plan, we'll have someone stake it out.]
[Anti-fraud expert #19: But you still need evidence, otherwise it's hard to arrest them. They might only be detained for a few days and then released.]
While the anti-fraud team was having a heated discussion in his mind, Morofushi Kagemitsu flipped through a few more pages of meeting materials and found that the word "White House" was mentioned frequently. He almost thought that they had taken a sudden pang of filial piety and named a certain plan after the White House.
However, upon closer inspection of the context, oh, I see. He saw the president across the ocean making a fortune by manipulating the stock market through policy, and he got envious, wanting to follow suit. But since the money is all circulating in the financial markets, he could only watch and drool.
...Well, ordinary people from ordinary families underestimated the greed of capitalists.
However, ordinary people also have their own wisdom in life, such as leaving themselves a back door so that they can retaliate if they are ever cheated in the future.
Since the boss was so envious of the model across the ocean, he continued to tout the benefits of financial products making money quickly, while instructing the police to focus on repeatedly cracking down on several real-economy businesses until their premises were raided.
"...Regarding the organization, we should minimize unnecessary expense reimbursements and ideally lay off some of the low-level parasites who waste resources..."
Why did he feel like Secretary Miyamoto glanced at him when he mentioned reimbursement?
Realizing that Secretary Miyamoto might be unhappy with his missionary work within the organization, he quickly started writing in his meeting proposal the usual clichés about the N benefits of increasing the number of missionaries to the organization, with a subheading like "Building Spiritual Civilization!"
And so, while he was in the meeting, he was also patching up his plans for the future. Despite his tone being so soporific, he didn't lose focus like Melo sitting next to him.
But even though this woman was distracted, she still bossed him around with the same self-righteousness, directly assigning him the unethical and offensive task of reducing reimbursement items and laying off staff. She even said that she would design an automatic screening program according to Miyamoto's suggestion to reduce waste in human resources.
you……!
You're willing to take the blame, but you didn't even ask if I can code?!
Morofushi Kagemitsu could only scream in frustration in his heart.
As if hearing his thoughts, five seconds later, Melo pushed in a girl in business attire. The poor girl was still dazed, carrying her bag and completely unaware of what was going on. She looked like an unlucky employee that Melo had just grabbed from some floor.
18:01
It's already time to get off work.
Morofushi Kagemitsu cast a sympathetic look at the girl. "I'm afraid I'll have to work late tonight. Take care!"
When it came to his gaze, he first looked incredulously in the direction where Melo had long since disappeared, then resigned himself to his fate and slumped down, sitting down on the desk next to him like a lost soul with his bag.
"I'm Nao Akiyama, currently doing an internship. Nice to meet you." Ms. Akiyama listlessly turned on the computer, and while waiting for the old machine to boot up, she very skillfully took out a packet of instant coffee from the second drawer on the left.
"I'm Asakawa Sora, and I'm in the finance department at the Hokkaido branch." He introduced himself, then, after thinking about the organization's possible arrangements for him, added, "I'll be transferred to the head office in a few days, so I'll be asking for your guidance."
Ms. Akiyama simply nodded, quickly accepting the explanation.
It seems she's not from this world, at least not aware that the company she went to so much trouble to get into is connected to a terrorist organization.
She seems to have made the kind of mistake that new employees in the workplace are most likely to make: she really wanted to leave work, but found that her colleagues were still sitting in their chairs and unwilling to leave when it was time to go. She hesitated for a moment, but unexpectedly, she was drafted into the job.
It's a pity that interns probably don't get overtime pay.
Sigh, sometimes in life, you're just one step too slow.
Morofushi Kagemitsu, who was also left behind by Mello because he was a step too slow, felt the same way and opened the data analysis software to start some simple operations.
"Wow, Mr. Asakawa is so adept at using these tools!" Ms. Akiyama exclaimed, somewhat surprised as she returned after pouring coffee and glanced at her future colleague's work. Wasn't he in finance?
“That’s right, I’m in finance.” Morofushi Hiromitsu sighed and said helplessly, “I hope my boss can realize that too.”
"Huh?" Miss Akiyama was taken aback, only then realizing that she had unknowingly blurted out her true feelings, and felt a little embarrassed.
Morofushi Kagemitsu, unaware of this, glanced gently at Miss Akiyama and asked, "Miss Akiyama, are you facing some difficulties?"
Upon hearing this, Miss Akiyama looked at him as if he were a bodhisattva, and immediately began to explain her predicament, pointing to the key points she had written down in her notebook, waiting for him to save her: "I've already tried to set up some legal thresholds to stop people, but there are still so many people left..."
Ah, they're still thinking about "legality," what a foolish college student.
"I had no other choice but to mark them all as 'accidentally died' on the list. I figured they'd just leave when they realized they couldn't get the money... Mr. Asakawa, is that alright?"
……ah? !
Do you think the Organization and Personnel Department is like the Metropolitan Police Department's household registration section? Even if the department head abuses their power, they can't just say someone doesn't exist in the household registration records!
"...I know this might be a bit difficult, but our company has quite a few connections, right? Why don't we try to get in touch with the household registration department and stall their appeal process? That way, even if we have to back down eventually, we can get through this hurdle and save some money for now."
...Is that a regular notebook you're holding, or a Death Note from the Shinigami world? Since you're so powerful, could you use your Shinigami eyes to see the boss's name and tell me how many years he has left to live?
"No way, do you want the company's legal team to come after me?"
Morobuchi Kagemitsu made up a random excuse to reject it.
He was wrong. Even the most naive college student can be led astray one day.
Ultimately, it comes down to the organization committing all sorts of evil deeds and the company being solely driven by profit.
It's already autumn, why hasn't the organization gone bankrupt yet?!
[Anti-fraud expert #214: Perhaps the correct password wasn't triggered?]
[Anti-Fraud Guru #19: This... Consort Mei didn't punish him with a severe beating?]
[Anti-fraud expert #26: Seriously? I just typed "It's getting cold, let the organization go bankrupt" several times in various languages in the backend, but it had absolutely no effect.]
Zhu Fujingguang: ...
Who taught you how to use the internet?
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Author's note: Writing the second half was incredibly smooth!
And, I just remembered a really bad joke →
Q: Why isn't there a "one-zhang red" punishment?
A: Because it is late autumn now, there is no summer, winter or spring.
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