Side Story 6: One woman’s complaint

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Translator: Soafp

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The initial plan was to obtain the contact information from the target, contact my brother, and have my brother pretend to be unaware of the situation and propose a settlement with compensation. The reason for calling my brother was to have him threaten the target who had laid hands on his important younger sister and report him to the police if necessary, making the target fear for his social death unless he pays up.

In other words, the message was “if you don’t want to face social consequences, you better pay up quietly.”

However, I decided to change the plan on my own and report the target to his parents and the police.

Since the target was a student, it wouldn’t be possible to extort money without involving his parents. Although my brother had assumed that they would be dealing with an adult, this was never communicated beforehand, so there was no reason for me to be blamed for it.

It’s not like they said anything, and they expected me to know… because I didn’t know.

“Y-you idiot!”

I think my brother who came to the police station was truly shaken.

Apparently, he never expected things to go smoothly from the beginning, and if the negotiations didn’t work out, he was planning on running away.

He believed that some people would rather face police action than pay money, depending on the person they were dealing with.

So when I reported the incident to the police, my brother who rushed to the scene turned pale.

There was no way out now.

If our plan was exposed, we wouldn’t get away with it for free.

— But I just had to lure this man, Ryosuke Yamamoto, who had the trust of his older sister, and frame him.

That was the only thing on my mind.

We were already at the police station.

But I couldn’t stand the sight of Ryosuke Yamamoto acting as if everything was going to be okay. I couldn’t forgive him. I just…!

As I was scheming to deceive his sister, a woman ran up to us.

Or rather… to Ryosuke Yamamoto.

“Ah…”

I couldn’t help but look away.

My brother and the three useless people saw the woman in the opposite direction and froze, unable to remove their eyes.

They were prepared for this to some extent because the little brother was handsome, but the older sister was still so beautiful and stunningly beautiful.

Her appearance far exceeded my expectations, and she has the aura of a celebrity.

Even though I had not yet received her name, I immediately recognized her as his sister because of her facial resemblance to Ryosuke Yamamoto,…… and I gulped with bated breath, thinking what a beautiful sister and brother they were.

(…… what should I do?)

Can I really win against such a monster?

I feel weak.

I don’t have the confidence to fool this person.

But…

My fears did not come true.

After a short conversation with the police, his sister walks up to me posing as the victim.

I can’t hide my upset with the monster. …… Then she stops right in front of me and stares at me.

“I’d love to hear more about it……”

“……Yes.”

I pointed to Ryosuke Yamamoto in tears and explained the situation. It’s more of a lie than a situation. The truth is that I had my brother attacked by these three men and they rescued me.

As she listened, her face, which had remained calm, turned bitter as she looked at me.

“…Not me… but to be deceived by a woman like this…”

“Eh?”

I couldn’t hear the whisper well.

But I could tell she was angry.

(Perhaps she is aware of it……)

I started to get impatient with the stones, but his sister went toward Ryosuke Yamamoto, who was standing a short distance away.

“I have misjudged you, Ryosuke!”

“…… Eh? Kaede nee-san?”

I can see his face well, Ryosuke Yamamoto’s face.

That’s why I realized …… that she was obviously in shock. I didn’t need to convince her, she believed the delusional big lie I had told her.

“Kaede nee-san! You believe those guys!?”

“…………”

The woman called Kaede turned to me once more.

The piercing look in her eyes, her cold eyes, not knowing what she was thinking, terrified me.

The idiots around me were smiling happily at the beautiful woman, but it was not the kind of look one would give to a victim.

Anyway, there was something wrong with the woman.

I can sense a different intention behind that face.

She looks as if she is thinking of something bad.

“The evidence is there, so you can’t get away with it.”

“Kaede nee-san!!”

Despite this, she stubbornly refused to believe her brother’s words.

A little later, his father arrived.

I thought he was a rather poor quality man who did not want to listen to Ryosuke Yamamoto’s words in a different way from his sister.

The woman named Kaede didn’t believe her brother’s words, but she listened to his side of the story until the end… without interrupting him.

But the father’s side interrupts every word.

The attitude of not listening is the same, but I felt that his sister and father have different feelings toward Ryosuke Yamamoto, who committed the crime.

Aside from the father, I can’t help but wonder…… why his sister doesn’t believe him when she feels love for her brother. That’s why I don’t understand what she is thinking.

…… but that’s fine.

I’m glad to see that guy cornered.

That’s enough to satisfy me.

And then the story went in our favor.

It was settled by his father paying the settlement.

Even though I, my brother, and the three idiots were prepared for a long battle, …… his father didn’t want the story to get bigger, and settled everything by paying a lot of money.

—-It ended up being quite anticlimactic and disappointing

His sister, whom he had trusted so much, didn’t believe him, and even his father abandoned him.

He is truly a pathetic man.

“……………”

Finally, ……

If I had to say something here…

Perhaps the opportunity is ……

“……Sorry for my little brother”

“N-no…….If you can compensate for the damages…”

“Right…… I’m glad we were able to settle the case.”

I was about to call out to him, but was interrupted by his sister.

In the meantime, Ryosuke Yamamoto was taken to a different place, so I guess I’ll just have to give up.

“Uhm…..Here is the number”

“………….”

My brother wrote his phone number on a piece of paper and gave it to Ryosuke Yamamoto’s sister.

I don’t know when he prepared it… and I don’t think this is the right timing for it. Well, I was also thinking of talking to him a while ago, so I guess it runs in the family.

—Kaede, who was in the process of getting a settlement, accepted the phone number offered to her, but immediately threw it away in the trash at the police station.

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“F-FIVE MILLION YEN?!”

The settlement money we received was far more than we had expected.

We had thought it would be a light allowance …… well over 100,000 at best, but we could not contain our excitement at the amount that exceeded our imagination.

We were going to end this once and for all, but if it was this lucrative, we had to keep going.

We then changed our tactics, this time focusing on “junior high school boys” and “high school boys” who passed by our neighborhood.

I came up with the idea of taking money from their parents in the same way.

“I can’t believe they haven’t seen us”

“…..Haa~”

I let out a sigh.

I tried the same method for two weeks after that, but not a single person other than Ryosuke Yamamoto appeared to help the woman who was being tangled up with the delinquent.

So I changed my target to “the person who approached me as I was crouching sick” instead of being entangled there, too.

Then, on the second day, I found my prey.

It was a high school boy with an ulterior motive.

I thought it would look suspicious if I called the police too many times in a row, so this time I contacted the target’s family only.

This time, the situation did not go as smoothly as Ryosuke Yamamoto’s, but we settled the case by receiving 200,000 yen.

I had actually demanded a higher amount, but he said he was going to hire a lawyer to fight for more than that, so I had no choice but to settle for 200,000 yen.

(……Don’t f*ck with me)

It’s frustrating because it’s like he’s telling me that my value is only $200,000.

It’s exactly what I initially assumed, but after 5 million yen, it just seems like a sparrow’s eye.

(Well, but …… I guess I’ll just give up and say I was dealing with the wrong guy this time.)

I decided to hope for the next one.

………

………

But it didn’t go well.

The next target was found immediately, but this time the other parent believed in his son and did not fold.

“As a parent, if I don’t have proof, I believe my son!”

They wouldn’t listen to me.

We were still insistent, but they were about to report us to the police, so we ran away.

Then another failure.

Then success.

Then another failure.

Failure, failure, success.

Repeat.

As my brother said, it often didn’t work out.

Thanks to the fact that I had to change locations every time I made a mistake, I ended up doing a lot of activities in a lot of different areas.

And even if I succeed, it’s only about 100,000 yen, which is not worth it. This is all too risky.

(Maybe it’s time to move on.)

I began to think so.

“—Haa? A shut-in?”

“Yeah, remember the second guy who we deceived? The school found out about him, and he can’t go there anymore.”

“Heh……”

I don’t care if it’s not Ryosuke Yamamoto.

And the second guy who we deceived……?

I don’t even remember his name.

“I don’t really care,”

“It doesn’t matter to me either, honestly.”

“Come on! Even though it was our fault!”

Kobayashi, one of the three idiots, talks happily even though he says so.

I just let his vulgar conversation slide.

But then …… started to talk about something interesting.

But then, he started another interesting story.

“Come to think of it, do you remember the first person we scammed? Kinsei, right?”

“Ah…yeah.”

Kinsei…he was referring to Ryosuke Yamamoto.

My brother and the three idiots call him Kinsei because we made a lot of money.

I listened intently to Kobayashi’s story, curious about what he had to say.

“I….. started dating a girl he was close with!”

She had a close relationship….With Ryosuke Yamamoto…..Maybe I can hear more about him

“….Heh… introduce me to her then.”

“Hmm? I don’t really mind?”

And so, I ended up meeting Fumika Kirishima, the girl who was once close to Ryosuke Yamamoto.