Ishida confirmed that the convention room was locked first earlier than he started his report.

[After the President left, I visited the Tokyo branches of several funds and VC firms, guided by the lead coordinator’s security company. I myself was also unfamiliar with their industries. It’s not unusual to find ghost companies to have no substance and were only a company in name. There were even some of them I found to have questionable sources of funds.]

The aim of Ishida’s go to was apparently to flick away the suspicious fund corporations.

Not like enterprise corporations with belongings and amenities, funds solely have their numbers, so they’re straightforward to counterfeit.

Hiroki did hear a narrative about them, about how wealthy folks all around the world had been evading taxes by such dummy corporations.

[Errr, what was it called again? Was it Panama or Pandora something?]

[President must be talking about Pandora Papers. As the leaked list of offshore tax-saving dummy companies for the super-rich was revealed, the super-rich, who account for 90% of the world’s wealth, are always looking for profitable investment opportunities. Especially investments that don’t charge taxes.]

[Hmph…… However, we pay our taxes.]

The waste disposal trade is an easily-beaten enterprise, and conserving a very good relationship with the locals is vital.

And so, their firm correctly pays their taxes.

As for the native financial institution, nicely, Hiroki considered borrowing a little bit bit of cash from them to maintain relations with the individual in cost……

[According to them, it’s a betrayal to capitalism to entrust the use of funds to incompetent groups such as the nation. The proposal also included an invitation to join a tax-saving circle for the super-rich…… but the President isn’t interested in that, right?]

[Nope.]

Within the first place, Hiroki thinks that he has extra money than he would ever want.

Hiroki had lived in poverty for a very long time and had the monetary sense of a commoner, so when he went to a gyudon chain, he was nonetheless having a tough time deciding between a medium or a big bowl.

[Well, they are the ones who induce that kind of personal profit even before they invest in a business. Their investments are nothing but proposals. Other than that…… Ummm……]

Seeing him hesitate, Hiroki might guess what had occurred.

[Proposals for personal benefits personally to you, Ishida?]

[……Well, something like that. “You’re practically in charge of the management of the company, and with our investment, we’ll make you the President”, or so they said.]

A coup d’etat proposal by an organization hijacker.

In a single respect, Hiroki does suppose they’re appropriate of their view that they will management the corporate by manipulating Ishida, the one who is definitely answerable for the corporate.

[That sounds very plausible. You accepted it?]

After all, if Ishida accepts the proposal, Hiroki wouldn’t have some other alternative.

He feels unhappy, however he’ll give him the push as they half methods.

[No way! No, please don’t look at me like that! I have no intention of accepting at all!]

Trying actually terrified, Ishida denied it whereas breaking out in a chilly sweat.

Hiroki thinks he doesn’t have to deny it so onerous although.

[Is that so? Maybe when you’re promised lots and lots of money?]

From Hiroki’s standpoint, what Ishida likes is cash.

That a lot is apparent to him, so he pays as a lot as he can because the Director of a enterprise firm.

When mixed with numerous allowances, Ishida’s present wage should exceed that of {most professional} athletes.

Nevertheless, it’s probably that the fund managers would pay him two orders of magnitude greater than that.

They’d suppose that with the ability to purchase him for 10 billion yen can be a discount, since they’d estimate the worth of this enterprise at a number of hundred billion to a number of trillion yen.

[Well, I was offered various favorable conditions, but they are just verbal promises. They’d obviously renege those promises. Even if we did make a proper contract, it would be in exchange for revealing the waste disposal technology. Their goal is to take over the company and monopolize the technology.]

[Monopoly of technology huh…… That’s impossible.]

[It was indeed impossible. There’s no way I can reproduce “the company’s technology”. In that case, it would be a breach of contract and I would be thrown out without the compensation promised in advance. It would just be a short-lived rule as the short-lived President. The return is not worth the risk.]

[I see.]

The benefit of Ishida is that he’s so obsessive about cash that he can see issues by way of danger and reward.

Subsequently, so long as Hiroki correctly pays him, Ishida is not going to betray him.

The reward supplied could seem excessive for many who are more likely to betray, nevertheless it’s not possible.

In different phrases, since he had low expectations from the counter-offer, Ishida gained’t be dazzled by them.

It’s very rational and straightforward to know.

[There was more than one fund that came to me with that kind of indirect takeover proposal. Some of them may have been more radical in trying to get rid of the President or to get the technology quickly.]

Radical mind-set, having the will to complete issues rapidly, making them consider selecting the violent alternative as interesting.

That’s the means of the Yakuzas, the Mafia and people communities lurking within the underworld.

[Must be someone from the underworld huh.]

[Their money must have come from the underworld. The one who tried to kidnap the President this time may have been amateurs, but I heard that some of them could hire experts with military backgrounds, so be careful.]

Ishida reminded Hiroki to handle himself.

He knew that Hiroki was bodily robust, however no quantity of bodily power can be a match for a soldier with a gun.

Hiroki generally had a bent to reveal himself unprotected to hazard, and Ishida was involved about that.

[That would definitely be scary, wouldn’t it?]

Hiroki evenly shrugged his shoulders at Ishida’s recommendation.

In Hiroki’s thoughts although, all he thought was how Ishida’s mannerisms had been turning into extra foreigner-like.

[In the first place, I wasn’t alone, but was accompanied by someone from the IR, finance, legalities and our bodyguard. It’s all about splitting up the management team here.]

Ishida wasn’t as overconfident as Hiroki, so he labored collectively with a group.

He contracted with a first-rate safety firm to dispatch a former navy professional as his bodyguard whereas he was in Tokyo.

Because of this, he didn’t face any explicit hazard throughout his keep in Tokyo.

[They sure make things quite complicated.]

Hiroki was getting drained with all of the methods the fund’s folks had been making an attempt to tug that he needed to stuff all of them in oil drums and throw them within the gap.

That will undoubtedly take them off his again.

[That’s the kind of people they are after all.]

The world could be higher off if these folks had been thrown into the outlet.?

Nevertheless, Hiroki didn’t categorical his ideas and as a substitute requested one thing else.

[They’re kind of repulsive. Did you not find more honest people?]

[There were indeed some more decent and interesting proposals from funds affiliated with industrial companies than those that were just purely funds.]

[Industrial companies now make their own funds?]

Hiroki, who had little expertise in enterprise administration besides at his recycling firm, was intrigued by Ishida’s story.

[They could do it. Most of the large companies nowadays do the same thing as funds. A holding company would be the leading them and invests in subsidiaries in each business domain. Let’s see…… Let’s have the electric power company as an example. Electric companies are one of the companies that people are eager to invest in. For projects with uncertain success rates, such as development of new power sources and natural power, the mainstream is to let ventures take on the work and then buy the ones that have produced results.]

Hiroki’s hazy reminiscence means that information releases on the event of recent battery and wind energy era applied sciences had been often both from analysis laboratories or enterprise corporations.

Let others cross the harmful bridges and purchase the outcomes after they grow to be obtainable.

That is the tried and examined street of wealthy corporations’ technique to reduce danger.

[Hmph. So, why are these industrial companies interested in us again?]

[Of course, it’s so that they can generate nuclear power!]

Ishida vigorously defined.

[……They’re still holding on to that?]

There had at all times been talks of contracts with energy corporations that needed to generate nuclear energy, and finally, the corporate may be capable of dump radioactive waste within the gap, however radioactive waste is beneath strict management of the nation and is a strategic materials that would result in terrorism if taken away.

Security measures require large funding, and tough and troublesome negotiations with the nation and associated businesses.

Hiroki was hesitant to simply accept it as a result of he might simply pour a considerable amount of waste into the outlet with out having to the touch upon such a factor.

To be exact, Hiroki simply discovered it troublesome.

[It’s not that…… It was because they will be able to fully utilize nuclear power as the country’s main source of electricity. How revolutionary this would be! The current green power business of solar power, wind power and other naturally-generated power will be blown away. There’s a wide difference between the efficiency after all!]

[That certainly sounds amazing.]

Will the windmills forested within the countryside and the photo voltaic fields spreading throughout deserted land grow to be unprofitable waste?

Pondering of all these, Hiroki thinks it’s nice. The extra waste, the higher.

[Yes. The price of electricity will go down a lot. Policies of nations around the globe will change. Europe, which has invested a lot in green power generation, would be ghastly pale. The Middle East, which has been earning a premium on thermal power generation, will also have to lower the price of oil significantly.]

If Hiroki takes Ishida’s phrases as they’re, all of the investments in windmill forests in Germany and the Netherlands, and the large-scale photo voltaic panel factories within the US and China shall be wasted.

And all of it is going to grow to be waste.

[Feels like they would harbor quite the resentment……]

Gaining market by enterprise actions additionally signifies that there can be some folks shedding market and shedding some huge cash.

Having fairly an impression on the world would additionally incur some resentment from the world.

[When the price of electricity goes down, the price of oil would also go down. When the price of electricity and oil fall, the price of all products would also fall. Both are at the very top of the industrial structure. In other words, the global economy will improve very much.]

Aside from the Center East and people who have been selling pure energy.

Their existence is sort of terrorizing for them.

[It’s a dream come true, don’t you think?]

[That’s right! It’s a dream come true!]

Ishida’s eyes lit up, however the nature of his dream could be a little bit completely different from that of Hiroki.

Ishida’s dream appears to be to avoid wasting the world by throwing away the waste on this world.

“”

It’s a great dream.

Hyenas all around the world even have massive goals and needs for his or her gap.

It’s a golden dream, one achieved by some form of alchemy.

After Hiroki completed his dialogue with Ishida, he headed for his personal non-public nap room arrange beside the outlet.

There are just a few scratches on the ground from dragging drums, however he doesn’t thoughts and simply lies down on his makeshift mattress.

He appears like he can have a very good dream right this moment.

As Hiroki closed his eyes, he felt like he heard one thing calling to him from far-off.

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Shortly earlier than the invention of an unmanned cargo ship within the Indian Ocean, a fishing village on Ceylon Island, additionally within the Indian Ocean, had a sequence of incidents during which villagers who had gone fishing had been discovered lifeless, their corpses pitch black.

(T/N: I don’t know why Writer referred to as it Ceylon Island, as a substitute of Sri Lanka, which is what it’s referred to as now. Effectively, the Writer was making an attempt to keep away from saying areas other than the well-known Tokyo, so I assume this can be intentional.)

It was considered an outbreak of some form of plague, however sadly, the fishing village was positioned in a rebel-held space on Ceylon Island, so there was a particular delay in notifying the federal government authorities and dispatching an emergency medical group.

Furthermore, after a number of days, the federal government issued a press release strongly condemning the insurgent forces for violating ensures for the security of the medical personnel, as they’d misplaced contact with the medical group they’d dispatched to the village.