Chapter 100: Utaha went fishing, and the willing took the bait
"Madam, you're putting me in a very difficult position."
Luo Shu frowned in distress, looking thoroughly troubled, but showed no intention of taking out the bank card.
Please, I wasn't the one asking for money. Miss Haruno thought I was so good-looking that she wanted to give me some pocket money. This was normal social interaction, certainly not taking money in exchange for favors.
"How would this normally be handled?" Luo Shu looked toward Takina Inoue. Beside his trouser pocket, his right hand-the one closer to Takina-held up two fingers, separating them and bringing them together again.
He meant a fifty-fifty split.
But Takina Inoue was nothing like an old hand such as Luo Shu. She merely said calmly,
"Normally, as I just said, compensation involving supernatural incidents must be reported to the Garrison and the Cabinet."
Something about that struck Luo Shu as wrong. Not because he thought Takina Inoue was wrong not to cooperate, but because he had noticed the value of the demon's corpse.
"Does that thing have to be reported too?"
Knowing Tachibana Kirika's personality, Luo Shu could guarantee that she would never dutifully report everything. She must have kept some things under wraps. There had to be some standard practice involved.
Hearing this, Takina Inoue immediately understood what Luo Shu meant and continued naturally,
"However, what the Yukinoshita Family happened to discover this time was merely an unexpected robbery. Our department just happened to discover and resolve it, so we only need to
notify the Garrison of the situation."
Luo Shu could tell that Takina Inoue did not do this often. After all, the way she had just spoken sounded exactly like Chisato Nishikigi.
*So Chisato Nishikigi had always been the one helping Tachibana