an unknown user had recently checked the cameras to see if it was indeed broken. I had the student council president look into it, and he confirmed that no one was working on the camera systems that day. I asked for the treasurer to come and investigate the camera to ensure it was 'working', and she decided to leave it broken even though I knew it was working just fine. With a little magic spell to block the blinking light, it was the perfect set-up. All I had to do was play the waiting game while acting as though I knew nothing since I'm pretty good at acting innocent and all."
He stepped back but froze as the sound of guns being drawn came from both ends of the hall and there were Starlight and Katsume with their combat black uniforms and handcuffs twirling on their fingertips.
"Ricardo Giovani," Katsume began with a grin as Starlight continued. "You're under arrest for multiple charges including sexual assault, child abuse, child and sex trafficking, drug possession, distribution of illegal, unsafe drugs to the public, and attempting to discard evidence."
"This is all bullshit!" he declared and pointed at us. "They have my seven million!" he tried to defend, which only made me laugh.
"You still haven't figured it out?"
He stared at me in disbelief before I sighed dramatically and shrugged.
"Your loans that you took out all those years ago. Well, you had made someone pay for them after you hit it big. Little did you know that that person who 'paid' forged the receipts of payment. Meaning they proved that they paid for something when in reality they stole your money and ended up donating it to save a hotel that was up for sale and eventually saved by that donation. Funny how that donation went to the new owner of that run-down hotel, who rebuilt it with their hard work, sweat, and tears. It’s now the most luxurious hotel in town, and just so happens to be owned by Megumi," I declared with pride.
Even the officers were gawking at the news, but there was more.
"Which means, you never paid any of those loans. That’s pretty bad, because they all had extremely high interest rates. So high that after I did some estimates of your current net worth, you're actually in debt," I revealed. "But I would never let my boyfriends ever carry family debt due to their parent’s mismanagement, especially due to the current circumstances, so I looked into how much debt you were in and surprisingly enough, it was merely seven million dollars!"
He was shaking as I flicked my hair and stood there with the biggest smile my lips could muster. "See, I'm a really smart individual, and though I've never really told anyone this, aside from my sister who really knows me, I have a thing with numbers. Especially stock," I revealed. "My parents give generous allowances, and my sister likes to give me bonus money when she goes above and beyond in missions. I don't use much so whenever I get money, I immediately invest it so that I only use what I need. Since my account is one of those that are set up to only be touched once in a blue moon, I made sure never to look into it unless I desperately needed money. How shocked I was to realize that I've made eight million dollars since I was ten!"
"Wow," Alice said in astonishment. "Brianne! That's so smart!"
"I have to thank those financial books in my parent's library," I declared. "And my sister for helping me open the investment account under her name until I was old enough."
Starlight smirked as she grabbed onto Ricardo and began to put him in handcuffs while he stared at me in stunned shock.
"The point is," I began, "I offered to clear off your debt, which we can say is the seven million spent on our sponsorship trip. That means that I, Brianne Marie Harlow, paid for our Semester Six trip and owe you, Ricardo Giovani, nothing in return. Though your debt is paid, you officially have no money to your name, and seeing as today is November 1st, I'm sure all your usual business and bank payments will go through your automatic payment system which means your latest acquired debt is yours alone to bear. And with you being arrested and having to go through trials and such, I can guarantee you'll be in the negatives for a while, so you can give