"Mr. Takayanagi, could you please give me some more time for that 300 million yen loan?" a debtor pleaded over the phone.
"If you can't pay it back, then get ready for me to sue you and send you to prison." Unfortunately for him, the lender didn't seem to be in a good mood, so his words were far from polite.
"If you want that much money, aside from robbery or kidnapping, there's no other good way."
"That's your problem, not mine. If I don't get the money by midnight tonight, get ready to go to jail!"
Click!
Takayanagi Ichiro slammed the phone down. His mind was in a daze because he realized he seemed to have just experienced the legendary event of transmigration.
From a once-promising young man, he had now become a moneylender in Japan.
Takayanagi Ichiro was the young master of the Takayanagi family, a Japanese moneylending clan. The current head of the family was his uncle, Takayanagi Musashi. If anything happened to him, Ichiro would smoothly become the next family head.
Musashi, now older, lived quietly in the Takayanagi main estate in the countryside. Since coming to Tokyo for university, Ichiro had never gone back, instead starting his moneylending career in the city.
His career had been a success. In just a few short years, using funds provided by the main family, Ichiro had amassed many debtors under his name. Some had even lost their businesses and assets entirely to him.
Last night, after closing a loan deal, Ichiro had planned to relax. But then he got a call from Musashi saying he intended to start grooming the family's younger son, Takayanagi Koji. This made Ichiro furious, so he drowned his frustration in alcohol. After getting drunk, his body was taken over.
"In traditional novels, when you transmigrate, don't you usually get some kind of system? System, are you there?" Ichiro hadn't believed it at first, but now that he was in the world of Detective Conan, he had no choice.
He knew it was the Conan world mainly because last night's loan client had been Mouri Kogoro.
"Detecting host consciousness. System starting: 5%... 10%... 50%... 60%... 100%. Ding! Loan System activated."
Host: Takayanagi Ichiro.
Age: 22.
Occupation: Moneylender.
Loan amount: 12 billion yen.
Number of debtors: 1,000+ (most recent debtor: Mouri Kogoro).
Reminder: The next debtor due to repay is Mizukami Naoto, owing 300 million yen.
The system wasn't bad—it immediately presented him with data.
"System, this is useless. I can handle this myself. With or without you, it's the same thing." Ichiro wasn't impressed; the Loan System seemed unreliable.
"With the Loan System, there is no debt you cannot recover."
"How so?" Ichiro was intrigued. Moneylenders feared those who simply couldn't repay. Some could at least offer businesses or property as collateral, but others were penniless and would rather rot in prison than pay.
"As long as you lure a debtor into committing crimes, and they are punished or die, the system will automatically recover the debt. Furthermore, debts repaid normally will also be matched with an equal amount by the system."
Now that was more like it.
If they couldn't pay, all he had to do was push them toward crime or death, and the principal would be recovered. And if they paid normally, he'd get double. Sweet.
"Oh, right, System—there's a newbie gift pack, right? Like Emperor's Blood, Dragon God Bloodline, that sort of thing?"
"Yes. Newbie Gift Pack activating."
Reward 1: Immortality.
Reward 2: Mastery of Bedroom Arts.
Claim rewards?
Hearing these, Ichiro was a bit surprised. They weren't quite Emperor's Blood or Dragon God Bloodline, but they weren't bad either.
Claim.
After claiming them, Ichiro felt his body and mind jolt with energy.
He hadn't yet tested immortality, but as for mastery of bedroom arts, he immediately recognized its value—he realized that his old techniques and positions had been lacking all along.
Nice. A life of pleasure awaited.
Ichiro stood up from his seat and went to the kitchen. Pulling out a fruit knife, he first carefully sliced his arm—no effect. Then he stabbed hard—still unharmed. Immortality was real.
Perfect start.
Just then, he heard Mouri Kogoro's loud voice from across the street. Walking to the window, he saw Kogoro get into a taxi, accompanied by a schoolgirl in a JK uniform and a boy in glasses dressed like an elementary schooler.
Was this the beginning of the storyline? The Kidnapping of the Chairman's Daughter case?
(End of Chapter)
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