Business Practices

Hiromi Mitsunashi

"Father, I've returned," Hiromi said professionally as she walked into his personal office in their apartment.

"Welcome home, daughter," he greeted her with a simple and well maintained smile. "I assume since you are here that the gig I gave you and your little friends is complete?"

"Indeed," Hiromi said with a bit of pride as she drew on her schooling to give a good report. "The Wraith band who shot down the Arasaka AV has had their leader neutralized, their base cleared out, most of its members killed, and the few survivors scattered to the winds. They will spread the word about what happens when vermin like them take a bite out of a dragon. Section 9 was also able to successfully salvage the data you hired us to recover."

Hiromi walked up and placed the case they recovered directly on his desk and respectfully stepped back.

She watched as her father opened the case, took the shard within out, plugged it into his terminal, and quickly reviewed the contents before nodding, ejecting the shard, and placing it back in the case.

"I can confirm this was the data you were sent to retrieve and that its contents are undamaged," her father said to her with a smile and she watched as his eyes glowed and sent her their reward, which contained many zeros. "Well done, daughter. It seems your little mercenary team is quite capable after all. It means I can trust them to keep you safe and you know how to use them effectively."

"All Arasaka employees should strive to make the best use out of the resources given to them," Hiromi quoted from class.

"A mindset that will get you very far once you graduate," her father replied with a smile. "Keep growing contacts like that and I'm sure you'll rise very high up indeed and make this family proud."

Hiromi kept her internal joy restrained to remain professional and just nodded. "I aim to do the best I can, father."

"As any Mitsunashi should," he nodded. "I hope your friends like their reward, don't forget to take a generous finder's fee for getting them this gig in the first place, and as we discussed before any other salvage from the AV is their's to claim."

"Yes father, already done," Hiromi assured him. "Better than leaving other Raffen scum to collect it later."

"Good, now if there is nothing el-" her father started before cutting himself off, his eyes glowing as he received a message on his agent, his face going rather pale as he read it. "Hiromi... is there a reason why I'm getting a message from the Counterintelligence Division?"

'Wow, V worked fast,' Hiromi thought, impressed. 'Though given what we found, that shouldn't be unexpected.'

"Nothing I'm at liberty to say at this time, father, but I assure you it should only be good things," Hiromi said with confidence.

Jenkins

"This is big," Jenkins muttered to himself as he read through the shard that V handed him after he called her into her office for again running off without orders, but at the same once again making it more than worth it. "Fucking big."

"That is why I had to act on it fast and brought it here as quickly as I could," V reminded him.

'And just when I was gonna give her a bit of the stick,' Jenkins thought to himself with a grumble. V's ops results had been subpar lately, so he was planning to give some encouragement to improve, but even he couldn't downplay just what she brought him now.

"How many others know about this?" Jenkins asked. "The less people know about an NUSA Militech listening post the better."

"Just my contact, who delivered the news to me right away," V explained. "And that kind of loyalty should be encouraged since they might find more goodies like this in the future."

"So long as they keep their mouth shut, I can agree with that," Jenkins noted. "Smarter than the average merc going straight to us about this too. We can use that... but keep an eye on them either way or its your ass."

"Yes sir," V nodded. "It should be noted that this only happened cause another employee, Mr. Mitsunashi, hired my contact to clean out some Wraiths who took out one of our transports. The fact that they used this listening post to do so means there were good odds they were going to grow into a major annoyance had we not nipped this in the bud so soon."

"And rather than just accept the loss he took the initiative to take out threats to the company, even if he will never know just how much," Jenkins mused. "That kind of thinking should be rewarded! And I would have someone grateful in my pocket too."

"You can never have enough people who owe you a favor," V agreed.

"I'll give him a little thank you and maybe a boost for his hard work, but make sure he knows who he is getting it from," Jenkins smirked. "Make him sweat a little."

"What are we gonna do with the listening post, if you don't mind me asking, sir?"

"That's high above your pay grade, V, sorry," Jenkins shrugged. "I'll push this up the ladder, but for now you'll take an ops team and secure the site. Don't want any new rats moving in after having just gotten rid of the last infestation."

"Sir," V nodded before leaving his office, leaving Jenkins alone with the data and a smile on his face.

"Now, how can I use this to get ahead?" Jenkins smirked as he started messaging some people. "Maybe I'll earn myself a nice promotion for this..."