Chapter 69: Soviet Collapse (6)

While Nick Leeson was happily flirting with the edge of hell.

Surprisingly… I hadn’t done much.

No, to be precise, I did a lot of things, but I didn’t touch Leeson. It went almost exactly the same way as the original history.

What? Is this auto-hunting?

I just gave him a little push, but he’s doing a great job on his own, drumming and trumpeting, attracting money from around him, self-destructing.

“He’s not going to live a normal life, that guy. Tsk tsk, he should have lived a decent life…”

Lee Sihyeon, who had become a proper chief of staff, said that in a meeting with me after a long time, and she looked strangely proud.

“Did you… have something on your mind? Nick Leeson reached that position at an age several years younger than you, and I’m wondering what I’m doing, something like that?”

Even in the original history, Leeson was 28 years old when he incurred a debt of $1.4 billion and ruined Barings Bank. In other words, he had the ability to incur a debt of $1.4 billion… and now it’s even more.

Lee Sihyeon seemed to feel a sense of inferiority, seeing that the same underdog who was a few years younger than her had become a world-shaking figure.

“Hmm, that’s right? Miss, you made me… like this and that, and I’ll never forget it until I die.”

Lee Sihyeon shook her head and stroked her arm. Her eyes were filled with melancholy.

I snorted and grabbed Sihyeon’s scruff and knocked her down.

“What are you talking about, you 30-years-aged old woman?”

Hearing those words, Lee Sihyeon struggled on the floor and protested.

“…That, that’s it! No, most people in their 30s these days don’t live as young as I do. Aren’t you being too harsh, Miss? I, I still have firm skin and…”

“That’s old.”

“Gasp.”

Well, as Sihyeon said, she does look suspiciously young. But it’s fun to tease her.

Lee Sihyeon, who had melted down, grumbled and threw the documents from her bag at me.

“Here, I got the money.”

It was a proof that the money obtained through the CDS contract with Leeson was completely and safely transferred to the bank. I smiled with relief after confirming that a generous amount of cash had come in.

It’s a relief. What is bankruptcy? In the end, it’s not being able to pay back the money.

As someone who knows that Leeson can’t pay back the money, I had to quickly recover the cash while he still had spare funds.

“Hmm, that’s a relief. As expected of Sihyeon, who used to swing bats in the back alleys, you have the qualities of a debt collector.”

“…”

“What are you staring at? You traitor.”

Lee Sihyeon, who renewed her 1st day of not betraying yesterday because she told the nanny that ‘Miss actually sleeps without clothes when she sleeps’, sighed.

“…How long are you going to milk that?”

“Until you die is a bit much, until you turn 40?”

“Sigh, it’s hard being a double agent, and if you keep doing this… Bad thoughts… will I eat them?”

“Ahaha, don’t worry too much. The basement of our house is spacious.”

“Eek.”

After joking around for a while, I lay on the bed in only my underwear and focused on the game.

There’s not much time left next year. Fortunately, Civilization was really good because I could play it alone in my spare time.

Lee Sihyeon watched me play the game for a while and then opened her mouth.

“…But aren’t you not going to school? Is this okay? These days, Miss only goes occasionally during the exam period… Shouldn’t you study a bit…”

“It’s okay, I got my grandfather’s permission now. It’s good that I was getting bored of going to school.”

I smiled brightly and stretched my arms. Grandfather no longer told me to study hard at school or anything like that.

It’s not because of something like what’s the use of college for a woman. It’s just because he realized that I’m the greatest genius of all time.

Thanks to that, I had a lot of time these days. Besides, I could sleep in as much as I wanted, so I could wake up refreshed in the morning.

I felt a little sorry for Mai Ryeon, who had to go to school alone…

Yes, shouldn’t she be grateful that a beautiful girl like me is playing with her?

‘Ha, aren’t I too great?’

-Ugh… It’s an honor to live in the era of Yu Hayeon…

I imagined a purple-haired character meme saying something like that, and looked in the mirror. A beautiful woman, whose beauty had reached its peak and would not appear twice in the world, was smiling like a fool.

‘It seems a bit crazy… I should restrain myself.’

I cleared my throat and listened to Sihyeon talking next to me.

“So I was fighting 17 to 1 on the streets of Osaka at night—”

“Yes, yes.”

“I was trying to recruit a European to create a Swiss bank account, and just then, another police investigation came in—”

“Ah, is that so?”

“With Seonjun Oppa’s help, to the bank I made in Germany… Um, Miss… You weren’t listening to me, were you?”

Lee Sihyeon, who had been proudly boasting about how she hid and moved my slush fund for a long time (I didn’t listen), pouted.

“Well, I already received it as a report, didn’t I?”

“No… but it’s fun.”

I tilted my head and asked.

“But why is Yu Seonjun Oppa? You’re older than him.”

“Yes?”

“…Is it because he’s handsome? Ha, this is hopeless.”

I knew it, the atmosphere was suspicious.

“That’s roughly correct, but it’s not like I’m like that… Miss, you call him that.”

Hmm.

Did I?

I think I did… Ah, I did.

Perfect memory doesn’t lie. Feeling a bit annoyed, I needlessly pulled Sihyeon close and buried my face in her soft and squishy chest.

“Tsk…”

Family… huh.

Maybe Chairman Yu Seongpil has already half-achieved his goal.

***

“Four people go into a room to play poker. Suddenly a bomb explodes and all four people are blown to smithereens. In this case, the audience is merely surprised. But I show a man planting a bomb under the table where the poker game is taking place before the four people go in to play poker. Just before the bomb explodes, the game ends and they are about to get up, and one of them says. ‘Let’s have some tea.’ The feeling you feel at this time is ‘suspense’.”

It’s a famous quote by Alfred Hitchcock. According to his theory, this situation creates extreme suspense.

There is a debt of hundreds of millions of dollars, but no one knows, and that debt is still growing in real time?

But it felt a little different to me.

[As a result of the year-end audit of Barings Bank, Nick Leeson got away without being caught with the 88888 account. It seems that the auditors did not notice the false entries in the books that Miss mentioned. According to the words of an employee who was there at the time, he did not point out anything because he was afraid that the people who came for the audit would be considered ignorant of derivatives.]

-Flutter.

Surprisingly, Nick Leeson survived. Although he was carrying a lot of debt and his tail had become very long, he seemed to have the skill to avoid stepping on his tail while skipping rope with it.

And even more surprisingly, Nick Leeson will not be particularly punished for this great feat, except for a brief stay in prison. That guy was still alive and well before I died, you know?

He even had more money than me, who was a shut-in just before I died. Since Barings Bank’s losses will be less than in the original history – Barings Bank is mine, so of course, I have to reduce the losses – it will be similar this time too.

…Hmm.

This was too ridiculous to be considered suspense. It was closer to slapstick comedy.

“Ahah, I’ve learned that too. Bergson’s law of laughter? The audience must be far away and it must be unrealistic… that’s right, isn’t it?”

“Yes, that’s right. How did you know?”

“How many years have I seen Miss? I worked hard to match Miss’s hobbies.”

“But why are you so bad at games, our Sihyeon… Is it because you’re old?”

“…”

Heh.

I laughed and ignored Lee Sihyeon’s grumbling and gave her a new mission.

“Okay, Sihyeon. Now it’s time to start the plan.”

Lee Sihyeon’s subtle face became serious, and she nodded, exhaling a faint breath.

“…Yes.”

I had a comfortable rest for the past few months, but… now the busy time has come.

Because I had to prepare to eat the flesh from the giant’s corpse.

“How much capital can we mobilize right now?”

“2 billion dollars. I put it in the United States to make it easier to use immediately.”

It’s both a small and a large amount. Because Alpha Fund, which is most of my money, reached 2 billion dollars in capital during the Japanese bubble…

Even though I additionally earned hundreds of millions of dollars with the CDS contract, there was still a shortage of money in my hands because there were many places to use money, such as Eastern European or Russian bonds.

“Call Ha Youngil and have him leverage a lot. And… set up a meeting with Quantum Fund.”

The time for short selling the pound has come.

The UK was overvaluing the value of the pound.