All Chapters of Infinite Cashback System: Every Loss Makes Me Richer: Chapter 11
- Chapter 14
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Market Manipulation
The screen in front of Ethan showed a number most people would never see in their lifetimes: $2.3B market cap.Lancaster Holdings.Victor's company.His father's empire, technically ... but Victor ran the public-facing arm, the one with his name stamped on every press release like a trophy he hadn't earned.Ethan didn't touch his keyboard yet. He watched the ticker crawl green across the bottom of the screen, patient the way a man is patient when he already knows how the story ends.[SYSTEM: Mission Available ... "The First Domino." Reward scales with market impact.]"Luna," he said quietly, to the empty apartment that wasn't empty at all. "Walk me through the exposure one more time.""Lancaster Holdings carries forty-one percent institutional debt tied to a single supplier contract in Southeast Asia," Luna's voice answered, calm and precise. "If confidence in that contract breaks, the debt covenants trigger automatic reviews. Automatic reviews trigger panic. Panic triggers exactly wh
Last Updated : 2026-07-21
The Loan Shark's End
The Fifth District police station smelled like burnt coffee and old paper. Ethan sat across from Police Chief Daniel Marsh with a manila folder resting on his knees, unopened, patient."You're telling me," Marsh said, not looking up from the first page, "that you have a complete financial trail on the Kessler collection network.""Debt portfolios. Bank transfers. Surveillance footage from three separate cameras the night they assaulted me in the alley off Fenwick. Signed statements from two other victims." Ethan kept his voice level. "It's all there, Chief. Every date. Every account number."Marsh flipped another page slower than the last. Ethan had expected that. Men who didn't want to act always read slower."This is a lot of documentation for an accountant to put together in his spare time.""I had time. They made sure of that."Marsh finally closed the folder. He folded his hands on top of it the way a man does when he wants a stack of paper to disappear through willpower alone."
Last Updated : 2026-07-22
Luxury Assets
The realtor's smile was too wide, the kind reserved for clients who didn't ask about mortgage rates."The Meridian Tower penthouse," she said, sweeping a manicured hand toward the floor-to-ceiling windows. "Forty-second floor. Private elevator. Unobstructed skyline view. Are you familiar with the building, Mr. Cole?"Ethan wasn't. He'd walked past it a hundred times as a broke accountant, always on the opposite sidewalk, the way people avoid looking directly at the sun."I've seen it," he said.He crossed the marble floor slowly, hands in his pockets, cataloguing details instead of admiring them. Imported stone. Custom fixtures. The kind of silence that only existed in rooms where soundproofing cost more than his old annual salary.Three months ago he would have felt like an intruder here. Now he felt something closer to suspicion ... the reflex of a man who had learned that anything given freely usually cost something later."The current owner is motivated to sell quickly," the realt
Last Updated : 2026-07-26
The Assassination Attempt
The Meridian Business Forum was the kind of event Ethan would have once needed a forged badge to enter. Now his name sat on the program in gold-embossed print, three lines beneath the keynote speaker, and nobody questioned why he was there.That was the strange part about money. It didn't just open doors. It made people stop looking at you at all.Ethan stood near the edge of the rooftop terrace, a glass of champagne he had no intention of drinking, sweating in his hand, and watched the city glitter below like a circuit board. Forty floors up, the wind carried the smell of rain that hadn't fallen yet. Somewhere behind him, a string quartet was murdering a Vivaldi piece for an audience too busy networking to notice."You look like a man calculating an exit strategy," said a voice on his shoulder.Ethan didn't startle. He'd learned not to."Force of habit."The man extended a hand ... silver hair, tailored charcoal suit, the easy posture of someone who'd never once worried about rent."
Last Updated : 2026-07-26