Chapter 200: When Death Ends All Debts
It was Leon’s first time coming here in reality. Aside from the reception room and Gus’s bedroom he had seen in the game, this place actually had a private kitchen and even a study.
And it was into the study that Gus led Leon.
“The ledgers for the Starfruit are updated every year. I keep all the old ones so it’s easier to reconcile accounts and file taxes.”
Gus pulled a stack of thick notebooks from the bookshelf. Each one was bound in leather, five centimeters thick, and there were nine in total.
“So, the Starfruit has been open for ten years?” Leon asked casually as he looked at the notebooks.
“Mm. This year has just begun, so the current ledger isn’t stored here yet.” Gus nodded and pulled four of them out.
“What you’re looking for is in these. But don’t worry, we don’t have to flip through every page. I’ll take out the ledgers with debts—most of what you’ll find are unpaid tabs—so we can just work backward to find the credit records.”
From the four ledgers, Gus selected two and handed them to Leon before starting to flip through his own.
Leon didn’t rush to open his. Instead, he placed the Old Timer’s Hat on the table. “No hurry. First, see if this hat rings any bells.”