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It’s times like this that I question my career choices.
No, the robbery part’s great. Getting paid by rich bastards to steal from other rich bastards gets the oligarchy coming and going. But if I was a law-abiding civilian and I somehow figured out that Father had been murdered, I wouldn’t have expected myself to do anything about it. Sure, I would have phoned the detective in charge every day until he blocked my number, but I wouldn’t have expected myself to go all Punisher on the perpetrator.
But with my life, I know the police can’t touch Ayaka.
And being an experienced criminal credited with dozens of high-value thefts means that even if I did call the police or the FBI or whoever and whined that my father had been murdered by some random crook, they’d play the recording at the
