Vodka remained silent for a little too long. Gin sensed something was off and said coldly, "Continue."
Vodka could only force himself to go on. "Ahem, it's like this: although the 'treasure' is in his home, it isn't Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Thousand-Gourd. It's a small jar of gold coins left behind by Kajisuke."
"Kajisuke?" At first, Gin thought this was another Peripheral Member who had secretly stashed away the proceeds.
But considering everything that had happened, he quickly realized who it was. Frowning, he asked, "That legendary thief from the Edo Period?"
Kajisuke was famous because he had successfully robbed Osaka Castle's treasury.
In his era, Osaka Castle was still a Tokugawa Shogunate stronghold used to control the west. Tribute collected from across western regions, along with profits from trade in Nagasaki, was all stockpiled there. The castle contained several treasuries filled with money.
The treasuries were heavily guarded. Their doors were thick, while the windows and vents were sealed with iron grates. The floors were tightly paved with stone, with the gaps between the stones firmly cemented shut, eliminating any risk of someone digging an Underground Passage.
Yet even so, Kajisuke, who had been on duty at Osaka Castle at the time, had used his position as an insider and his superb lock-picking skills to steal four thousand ryo of gold from within.
Vodka's voice soon came through the phone again.
"The Dragon and Tiger Scrolls that appeared in the two charred corpse cases earlier—the so-called 'treasure map'—seem to have been left behind by Kajisuke. Later generations saw the Thousand-Gourd recorded on the Scroll of the Dragon and easily assumed the Scroll of the Tiger recorded the treasure's burial site. But in reality, the Tiger Scroll only contains one piece of nonsense: 'The item recorded in the Scroll of the