TLNOTE : Please re-read chapter 2 part 14, there are big mistakes.
“I don’t know… I-I don’t know anything!”
[○×△※──!!!!!!]
(Eh!? N-no way!?)
My eyes widened in surprise at this unexpected development.
Koyomin urged me to reveal the location.
“Where is the hiding place, Kanako?”
“I’m curious,” said Mukashino-san. Eijirō-san and Adeno-san also watched with bated breath.
I turned to Koyomin and whispered the information I had obtained through mind-reading.
“It’s terrible, Koyomin. The will is… um… in lawyer Arima’s head.” whisper
“In his head? You mean?” whisper
I couldn’t hide my confusion from Koyomin’s puzzled expression.
“Maybe the will was disposed of and the data was input into his brain? Like cybernetics or something!?” whisper
What an unexpected development! Without physical evidence, there’s nothing we can do!
But Koyomin sighed dramatically at my panicked state.
“Cybernetics? That’s impossible. We’re not dealing with that doctor who turned us into cyborgs.” whisper
“But ‘in his head’—he’s definitely shouting in his heart that there’s no way it could be discovered—” whisper
“Sigh… Your way of thinking is so stupid it’s almost genius.” whisper
After sighing again, she turned to face the defensive lawyer Arima with an exasperated expression.
“Wh-what!?”
“…Target locked. Commencing mission.”
Then, standing perfectly upright, she leaped behind lawyer Arima.
Whoosh! Thud!
Everyone’s eyes were drawn to the high school girl who had raced across the ceiling with lightning speed.
“A-are modern high school girls’ physical abilities monstrous!? I heard that nutrition has improved considerably since the early Showa period, but still!”
(No, I don’t think that’s it, Adeno-san.)
It was a comment that could have revealed her age, but no one seemed to notice due to Koyomin’s extraordinary movements. Good for you, Adeno-san.
Meanwhile, Koyomin, who had performed her graceful leap, positioned herself behind lawyer Arima and, without hesitation, grabbed his scalp with her claws and applied force.
“N-not there—”
“Hup.”
Rip, pop.
A light exclamation, followed by the sound of something adhesive being peeled off.
And what appeared before our eyes was a head shining like the rising sun.
Lawyer Arima’s head was absolutely gleaming.
And stuck to the inside of the scalp—the toupee—that had been mercilessly peeled off by Koyomin was what appeared to be an envelope.
“Ah, ‘in his head’ meant the toupee…”
Geez, I was surprised for nothing thinking it was cybernetics.
Meanwhile, lawyer Arima, patting his cold scalp and wearing a face stained with despair, bulged his eyes and screamed.
“H-how did you find out! Give it back! This is a compliance violation!”
“I am a woman who has no use for compliance… Kanako.”
Koyomin nimbly dodged his attempts to snatch it back and threw the will over to me.
I caught it gracefully.
“Nice pass!”
I got the will! It took so long, really.
Then, Naomi-san and several detectives including Inspector Gori, who had been listening via radio, burst into the scene.
“Hello~ Police here~”
“Eh? P-police!? You’re unusually quick!”
Mukashino-san exclaimed in surprise at their appearance.
But the one who was even more surprised was Eijirō-san.
“Eh, eh, eh, but the police… wh-what does this mean, detective-san!”
“Ah, well, um…”
How should I put it? This is really awkward.
Naomi-san stepped in to shield my confusion and laughed without any shame.
“Well, we’ve been keeping an eye on Logic’s wrongdoing for a while now.”
“Logic’s wrongdoing? Not the theft of the will?”
Mukashino-san was surprised. From this reaction, it seemed he didn’t know about the accounting fraud mentioned in the will… no, he didn’t even know about the fraud itself. I could tell without reading his mind.
Meanwhile, president Eijirō was quite flustered at being told about wrongdoing.
“Wh… but why in the president’s office!? What is security doing!?”
“Somehow we had a free pass. Well, it’s lucky to discover this during a routine patrol, eh Gori?”
Inspector Gori also wore an extremely awkward expression like mine. That horse-racing-loving security guard probably let Inspector Gori through because he knew him.
Eijirō-san’s face had gone pale beyond anger.
“Is th-there such a thing as patrol rounds!? This isn’t a police checkpoint!”
“…Hmm, if the president says so, we should ask you to leave.”
Mukashino-san took a resolute attitude as if to protect the flustered Eijirō-san, though he didn’t understand the situation.
Usually he acts frivolous, but he was piercing the detectives with sharp eyes. His gaze was so sharp that several detectives became flustered.
But Naomi-san remained Naomi-san, still grinning and completely unperturbed.
“We’ll leave~ once we get the will. Hey Kanako, good job. Come on, hand it over to me.”
Naomi-san was waving her hands saying “Hey, pass it here.”
“Um…”
I looked back and forth between her and the will, then looked toward Eijirō-san.
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“Please, only that! Detective-san!”
[At least just the contents! And then—]
“—!? Is that so!?”
At his unexpected inner voice, I couldn’t help but speak out.
And Eijirō-san’s gaze carried eyes of determination that seemed to back up his inner voice.
“…Um…”
“Kanako.”
Koyomin called my name. And then—
“I leave the decision to you.”
This one sentence. Hey now, did you read my mind? As expected of my sister.
Having made my decision, I handed that will to—
Swoosh
I handed it to Eijirō-san.
“H-hey Kanako! What’s wrong with you!? Have your eyes finally gone bad too!?”
I laughed and calmed down Naomi-san with her harsh words.
“Well, Naomi-san, please calm down.”
“How can I be calm about this!? What if he burns it right here!? If it were me, I’d burn it, throw it, jump out the window, and escape using domestic flights!”
(This person really does sound like a veteran criminal.)
To her casually stating escape procedures, I added, “It’ll be fine.”
“It’s fine, it’s fine. Please trust me.”
“Trust you… is this really okay?”
During this exchange, Eijirō-san had opened the will and begun reading it.
“…Just as I thought… Father is too kind.”
Eijirō-san held the will to his chest with a determined expression.
Naomi-san could only raise an eyebrow at this incomprehensible development.
“What, hey, is this really okay? I don’t understand what you mean by ‘too kind.'”
“It’s fine, please trust me and Eijirō-san.”
Having read his mind, I knew what Eijirō-san was going to do and what his determination was, so I winked at Naomi-san.
“Let’s witness the new president’s resolve.”
The press conference for the announcement of the new president and Logic Consulting’s new structure, on that very day.
What should have been a press conference to announce the death of former president Keitarō, personnel changes, appointments, and policies…
“So you’re saying Logic was complicit in accounting fraud?”
“Yes, that’s correct.”
At the hotel’s banquet hall.
With a solemn folding screen behind him, Eijirō-san, the new president, was sincerely answering the reporter’s questions.
The business policy announcement press conference had quickly transformed into an apology press conference, and even the questioners seemed bewildered.
In the midst of camera flashes, Eijirō-san spoke confidently before the array of microphones.
“My late father’s will contained details of accounting fraud, its methods, and business partners. And the real names of politicians and police officials who assisted with it…”
The press corps stirred at the mention of politicians and police.
“So you’re saying Keitarō-san left an accusation in his will?”
“Yes, the accusation states that although it was to grow the company, my father had always regretted it. My father’s death was probably also due to the stress of being continuously used by politicians and police…”
Eijirō-san’s eyes welled up with tears. He wiped the corners of his eyes and continued bravely.
“My father probably didn’t want me and the other employees to bear the burden of those sins. He wrote in his will asking us to make this wrongdoing public and end the negative cycle.”
“Is that why you’re holding this press conference? Still, bringing in television coverage seems rather elaborate.”
To this, Eijirō-san answered sincerely, as if this was the main point.
“The reason is simple. To prevent politicians and police from covering it up, he wrote that we should broadcast live on television during the new structure announcement… These procedures were also written in the will my father left.”
A wave of agitation ran through the press corps, wondering if big shots powerful enough to cover things up were involved.
Amid this agitation, another reporter asked such a question.
“By the way, new president, can you say with certainty that you weren’t involved in the accounting fraud?”
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