Gotham’s Beautiful, Fragile, Tragic NPC Gets the Tomie Treatment
Chapter 285

I Waited a Hundred Years

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Ririko and Dick exchanged a glance.

Dick had never expected to get anything from the Crown family, but an orphan's primal longing for family still made him feel that the old man was far too cruel.

Ririko turned back to the head. "I don't care whether you care. He deserves a share of the Crown family's assets."

Just then, Cyborg's voice sounded. "I've accessed his life-support system. Need me to do anything?"

Ririko said, "This vicious old bastard doesn't deserve to be human. Cut off his oxygen."

Before Cyborg could answer, Oliver stepped forward and offered a sensible suggestion:

"Wait. This computer must contain records of the Crown family's assets... If we add Dick's name to those assets before the old man officially dies, it'll be legally binding."

Ririko waved a hand. "Then do that."

Cyborg replied, "All right. Give me three minutes."

A new line appeared on the screen:

Accessing management system. Beginning search of asset database.

Ririko suddenly remembered something important.

"Cyborg-" She lowered her voice, though all three of their earpieces could hear her anyway. "Can you find the Court of Owls' assets in this old man's brain too?"

"...That data is here."

"...Can you transfer all the money into my account?"

Cyborg fell silent for a second. Dick and Oliver both turned to look at her.

Then Cyborg replied, "That's an astronomical sum. You probably couldn't spend it all in eight lifetimes. Are you sure you want to do this?"

Ririko rubbed her hands together excitedly.

"Quit talking and transfer it."

The moment she finished speaking, the head above them let out a shrill scream, seemingly enraged by their intrusion into something vital.

"You scum... What are you doing inside my brain?!"

The monitors on the walls began flickering wildly.

The milky-white container shuddered,

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