Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:Item7 Chapter2 (section)

===Part 12===

“Hmm? I see.”

The Mugino Family head nodded a few times with the foldable phone still held to his ear.

This was a matter to be dealt with outside Academy City.

The Family knew all about some circumstances those adorable girls did not.

After hanging up, the elderly man searched for a different number.

The Quarterback biker gang had been destroyed, but that didn’t bring everything to an end.

There was another enemy.

He couldn’t let the “grampa” title break him by reminding him of the passage of time.

He regathered his focus.

He operated the phone with his thumb. He chose one address and called it.

“Hello, hello. Are you sweating bullets? It’s me. Yeah, me. The man you failed to kill.”

Apparently the person on the other end didn’t want to reply.

But apparently they also weren’t able to hang up.

That clearly demonstrated the balance of power.

“I know about the A-17 boards. You’re the bastard who ''set things up'' so those delicate circuit boards could be bought cheaply and sold at a huge markup, aren’t you? Simply put, you sold information on other criminal organizations to the police in the relevant countries to get their bank accounts frozen. Then those criminals had no choice but to keep their money themselves. The demand for safes kept in your own home rose across the globe and the price of those boards skyrocketed. Yes, and the Academy City brand helps since their tech is 20 or 30 years ahead of the stuff out here. Anyone would want the finest security around when it comes to protecting their own dirty money.”

“…”

“That’s why criminal organizations all over have been causing trouble. They’re busy ‘working’ to make up for what they lost when their accounts were frozen. But are you sure that was a good idea? If word gets out, Quarterback will become a target of every criminal organization in the world. Now, do you think you can convince them all you had nothing to do with it? When your number is right here in their phone’s address book?”

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Now that man would be targeted not just by the Mugino Family but by every criminal organization around the world. No matter how well he hid his self-important face behind the mask of justice, there would be an opening at some point in the 365 days of the year. And the professional criminals steeped in the darkness would not overlook that moment.

“Don’t worry.”

The Mugino Family head was going to busy now too.

After coming this far, he couldn’t let someone else get ahead of him and steal the final kill.

He had made a promise with that boy from the motorcycle shop.

That boy had a hundred years of life in the sunlight ahead of him, so there was no need for him to bloody his hands. This was a job for the Mugino Family which specialized in misdeeds.

So he made an announcement.

Holding solid evidence wasn’t enough.



“This won’t take long. I’ll be there to kill you soon enough.”