Fujino looked at the company before him, and plenty of thoughts inevitably crossed his mind. But without anything confirmed yet, he wasn't sure which idea fit the situation.
He took a deep breath, activated Eagle Eye, and saw two points of light in the underground space beneath the building.
One of them appeared to be Sonoko.
As for the other...
It looked like Miss Noguchi?
So where were the kidnappers?
Did kidnappers these days not personally keep watch over their hostages, or at least have an accomplice stand guard?
Then, under his puzzled gaze, one of the light points slowly stood up. It went to pick up something, then left its original position.
Fujino: "..."
People being kidnapped these days were really full of fighting spirit. They could break free and escape on their own... But if she had broken free, why didn't she take Sonoko with her?
He gave a speechless dead-fish stare, already forming a suspicion in his mind.
It was probably to dodge inheritance tax, right?
And then they would demand ransom afterward?
Japan's inheritance tax was absurdly high. Ten million was taxed at ten percent, thirty million yen at fifteen percent, fifty million at twenty percent. Once it reached a hundred million or more, it started at forty percent and went up to a maximum of fifty-five percent.
In other words, if you inherited one billion, you would have to pay a little over four hundred million.
Rather than hand all that money over to the Japanese government for nothing, it was better to stage a little show, get all the money into their own hands, send it abroad to exchange for foreign currency, and deposit it in foreign banks.
That was probably the scheme these sisters were playing.
The thought flashed through Fujino's mind, and