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#200 It's You
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2024-12-08 07:00:33"Trash!" Kenji shouted, throwing a pile of papers at Kojima.
Inoue, who was beside Kojima, quickly moved to pick up the scattered papers. They weren’t trash. These were the reports that Kenji was supposed to review. However, Kenji discarded the reports because he had nowhere else to direct his anger.
It was fortunate that Kojima brought only papers to Kenji; a knife would have bled him.
"Forgive me, Sandaime," Kojima bowed.
He had just reported the results of his search through the entire list of Kuryugumi's properties, and as expected, there was no trace of Akiko to be found.
Kenji had anticipated this, but hearing the bad news directly still infuriated him.
"And what about Shibata? Have you checked his assets?" Kenji asked, hoping for better news.
"I do, but not thoroughly. Shibata-san owns quite a lot of assets," Kojima reported.
Kenji wasn’t surprised. Shibata had worked closely with his father, so it was only n
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