「The World Billionaire List in 2000

Totals as of December 1999 ($)

1. John Doe

168.3 billion        Jonathan Investment Finance        USA

2. Jonathan Hunter

161.7 billion         Jonathan Investment Finance        USA

3. Richard Gates

90 billion        Nano Soft        USA

4. Flint Buffet

31.5 billion         Yorkshire Hathaway            USA

5. Mill Allen

30 billion         Nano Soft        USA

…

216. Jeong Ju-Hyung

1.8 billion        Daehyun Group         South Korea」

I was listed anonymously on the list with my nationality marked as American. The U.S. Secretary of the Treasury had kept his word, so I could board the night plane to New York quietly. I would’ve been heading toward Tokyo if he had decided to continue down his previous crazy thinking of revealing my identity. Woo Yeon-Hee looked happy with her first flight experience in first class but she soon fell asleep.

I completed the quest my father gave me as soon as I arrived in New York. I stopped by his friend’s...