Revenge
It was time once again to display the cruelty of Gorgeous Mitsuha, inspired by the one and only Gorgeous Irene.
I promise I don’t enjoy killing or committing crimes. But I’m not gonna twiddle my thumbs and watch as my friends and I are made victims.
What’s that? Aren’t all lives equal, you ask? Oh, please. Do you mean to tell me that if you could only save either the serial killer or a cute little girl, you’d actually struggle with that choice? Would you value the life of a knife-wielding maniac and not resist as they slashed you and your family? Of course you wouldn’t!
Only those who value the lives of others deserve to be treated in kind. Enoba Company and their accomplices don’t deserve mercy. They elected to try to eliminate a rising business rival with an outrageously violent act─forgetting their dignity as merchants. They will be reciprocated with an equally unjust attack.
I’m not gonna fight them on a level playing field, nor do I need to. I’m doing this quietly without resorting to violence. Well, violence against people, anyway.
Let the party begin!
Late that night, Mitsuha made yet another trip to Enoba Company. She checked to make sure the shop’s lights were out and jumped inside. Next, she jumped the display shelves full of goods to Earth and then back into the store. The catch? She returned with the shelves hovering high in the air, nearly touching the ceiling.
Crash! Shatter!
Okay, jump!
She repeated that process five more times in the stores of companies that colluded with Enoba Company. The racket of the shelves and products hitting the ground must’ve caused a commotion soon after, not that she stuck around to find out. Once she was done, she jumped right to her home in Japan and went to bed.
“Larusia, payback has begun! I’ve confirmed the identities of our enemies, and now it’s time to crush them!” Mitsuha said when she visited Larusia Trading the next morning.
“Huh? What do you─oh, I mean, I’m sure you performed a thorough investigation, Lady Mitsuha, but there’s no use in putting up a fight with them… The authorities would never listen to us…” Larusia looked resigned.
The authorities can kiss my ass!
“What do the authorities have to do with anything? When I say crush them, I don’t mean complain to law enforcement. We’re gonna put those crooks out of business with the help of our most trusted comrades. Larusia, did you really believe that the Entrepreneur Girl International Network is nothing more than a friendship circle?”
Larusia stared at Mitsuha in astonishment. It took her some time to manage a response.
“…Let’s do it!” she finally exclaimed.
“That’s what I wanna hear! All right, we’re gonna start by making a public announcement. I’ll reach out to everyone in the Entrepreneur Girl International Network, and I want your company to contact all your domestic retailers and clients. Here’s the rough draft of the announcement,” Mitsuha said, handing her a sheet of paper.
The girl skimmed it and looked up with a grin. It was the first time Mitsuha saw her smile since the incident.
It was a delightfully wicked smile, too.
By noon, the rumors were spreading throughout the city. “Six shops, each owned by different companies, had been inexplicably ravaged in the night,” it went.
There was much speculation about this incident. Why those six stores in particular? Did they have something in common? Was the attack the work of a human being? Could it have been a monster or a demon? Or was it perhaps divine punishment?
The average person had no idea what connected the six stores, but it was obvious to those in the business world. One was Enoba Company, a major and notorious name in the industry, and the other five were mid-sized companies that did their bidding. It wasn’t hard to imagine the six names earned a lot of resentment over the years.
That said, it was unthinkable that someone could raid all six stores at nearly the same time and escape so quickly, leaving zero witnesses. Was such a thing humanly possible?
The next day, stores all around the capital received a letter. They were hand-delivered by the employees of Larusia Company. The staff spent the previous day addressing the envelopes and dividing them up for delivery.
The letter was the draft Mitsuha showed Larusia. The two of them carefully revised it and Larusia handwrote the final draft. Mitsuha then made copies of it on Earth.
Shopkeepers all over the city read the letter in astonishment. Written in it were the details of the attack on Larusia Trading. It also noted the fact that the assailant had destroyed the goods and assaulted their employees─killing one─yet, for some reason, left without stealing anything. Furthermore, it stated that Larusia Trading would, for its own protection, cease conducting business with the companies listed in the letter and any affiliated companies or individuals.
There were six names on the list─the very same ones that had been the talk of the city for the last day.
“WHAT?! THAT’S UTTER NONSENSE!” the owner of Enoba Company, Bartaad, exploded after receiving a report from one of his clerks. He was already irritated as he was in the midst of overseeing the repair work for his sales floor.
“I-I’m just repeating what they said…” the clerk quivered.
The clerk couldn’t argue with the company owner, but he had to deliver his report accurately. Even someone with exceptional business and financial acumen couldn’t make the best decisions based on incorrect information. Humans were like computers in that sense. That was why the clerk shared what he heard without sugarcoating anything or brown-nosing, despite knowing he’d get yelled at. Bartaad was a crook but he didn’t demote or punish subordinates for delivering the truth.
“Our client is ceasing all business with us effective immediately?!” Bartaad exclaimed. “And other clients throughout the capital are sending us the same notice?! Why is everyone doing this?! That makes no sense! Is this about that mysterious attack on our shop? We only suffered a little damage to the display items in our flagship store. That’s just a scratch to a company of our size. Anyone should know that it won’t shake the foundation of our business!”
“I-I don’t know what to say…”
Bartaad was right, but the contract termination letters were flooding in and there was nothing he could do about it. The clerk was relatively young and lacked the experience to understand the reason behind the clients’ actions. Larusia Trading’s letter was not delivered to the six companies behind the assault, so they were in the dark as to why they were being cut off. They certainly weren’t aware that Larusia Trading alluded to the culprit’s identity in their letter.