Hoshino closed her eyes and watched the Shadow Dash unlock progress bar slowly rise. After three rounds of cards, it had only reached 5.7%. Who knew how long it would take?
Yato seemed to hate physical contact. Several times Hoshino tried to get close, only for Yato to dodge away.
Hoshino had seen Yato's problem from the very first glance. It was obvious: she had simply been overworked for too long and lost her passion for life. The problem was so common it could even be called an occupational disease among Rhodes Island's corporate drones.
It was all that unscrupulous pharmaceutical company's fault for exploiting its workers.
While Yato was briefly distracted after realizing the mission had failed, Hoshino dragged her into the lively bar, hoping to help Yato rediscover her passion for life. It would be even better if she could unlock the Shadow Dash character card amid the chaos.
As for how she would take advantage of the chaos, that depended on Hoshino's performance.
She truly had not expected Yato's workaholic condition to be this severe. Even now, she had not found an opportunity.
After all, when unlocking a character, the closer she was to the target, the better.
And then there was Emperor's obviously unreliable commission.
Hoshino slowly placed her cards back on the table, her heart filled with surprise. That penguin was actually trying to go straight? It made no sense, emotionally or logically.
"Are you sure this isn't robbery?"
"That is a barbaric and aggressive way of putting it. Can an artist's business be called robbery?"
So it was robbery.
The buyer paid a logistics company to transport a shipment of goods, but the seller did not want to ship them. The logistics company needed to have a talk with the seller, and when talking