Kiyomi Liuli fretted all the way home, and upon entering, called out, "I'm back!" She kicked off her round-toed leather shoes, didn't even bother with slippers, and raced to her room to start rummaging through drawers and cupboards. She even found her childhood piggy bank and smashed it open to find, after tallying up a pile of coins and a few bills, roughly four thousand yen.
Her family was well off, but her mother, Kiyomi Koko, ran a tight ship and had raised her daughter well. As a little girl, she didn't have much pocket money to begin with, and she also lacked the habit of saving, basically living hand to mouth each month. The fact that she could find this much change in her room was all thanks to her habit of carelessly leaving things around.
Four thousand yen was far from enough—it was only about a tenth of her debt. Where would she find the rest?
Was she really going to be called "Swindler Liuli" or "Deadbeat Liuli" for three years?
