"How could this happen?!"
"Why are they all IOUs?!"
"Even the old house was mortgaged. What the hell was the old man thinking?"
The three of them stared at the pile of IOUs, their faces looking as though they had swallowed shit.
Hearing that, Fujino glanced back at them and said coldly, "So? Do you still want to inherit this pile of estate?"
The three immediately looked awkward.
Under Japanese inheritance law, inheriting an estate also meant inheriting its debts.
But nearly all of Yaguchi Kyuemon's estate consisted of debt. His fixed assets had almost all been mortgaged. In other words, inheriting it meant inheriting debt, with no possibility of getting even a single yen.
If his liabilities exceeded his assets, they would even have to repay the remaining debts.
Fujino couldn't help clicking his tongue. "What, nothing to say now?"
"How does it feel knowing you got your father killed over this pile of debt notes?"
The three, knowing they were in the wrong, couldn't say a word.
If these three ungrateful bastards hadn't come to steal, perhaps old man Yaguchi Kyuemon could have lived for many more years. Being in his seventies, living another eight or ten years in Conan World would have been no problem at all.
Unfortunately, all three of them were heartless ingrates.
Even after the old man died, they were still thinking about his inheritance. After finding the IOUs, they even blamed him.
Fujino sighed inwardly and stopped paying attention to these humanoid creatures.
Naturally, these humanoid creatures would not be arrested and locked up. Being taken away only meant giving a statement.
If he really wanted to send them in, one word from him would be enough to throw them in for obstructing law enforcement for a few days.
But Fujino was too