Chapter 100: The End of the Banquet (2)
Wearing a full suit for the first time in a while, I had to admit—its effect was undeniably strong even from my point of view.
–Rustle.
“Go ahead. I’m curious what kind of excuse you’ve brought.”
I smiled coldly at the man with long hair hanging down. Though he was a useless and incompetent accountant without any skills, his eyes moved quickly. Maybe because of that, the man with the ridiculous name ‘Frilling’ ended up confessing.
“...I-I don’t know! I-I don’t know anything!”
“You don’t know? There’s no way you could have looked through the Madoff Fund documents and not noticed anything.”
“I... I just stamped the documents sent to me. I didn’t know where the investments were going.”
It was a shocking thing for an accountant to claim ignorance of the very ledger he managed, but I simply nodded.
‘Hmm, so that’s how it is. I understand now.’
It’s often the best way to protect a secret within a large group... not sharing it with the people below you.
Because people doing the actual tasks might not know the important parts and can sometimes act inefficiently, but that wouldn’t matter much in a case like this.
Because they’re just people doing simple jobs.