Manhattan Reborn 1978

new York.

Good morning, seven fifty.

JFK International Airport, Queens.

A private plane flying from an island country landed smoothly on the runway.

About half an hour later.

Naoki Iwasaki and his sister Ayase Iwasaki of the Iwasaki family of the Mitsubishi Group got into a car with several followers and quickly left the airport.

On the road ~

This is Iwasaki Ayase, who is visiting New York for the first time. While listening to the introduction of the airport reception staff, she looks around curiously out the window.

Iwasaki Naoue, who was sitting next to her, was looking through the latest intelligence information his subordinates had just received, listening carefully for a moment, and then asked with a surprised expression.

"In other words... during the time we were on the plane, a wave of selling of Japanese yen bonds broke out in the Asian dollar market in Singapore?"

"Yes!"

"What about us? Is there a big loss?"

“There are some, but it’s acceptable.”

"We had already studied and discussed your reminder before you boarded the plane, and urgently dealt with the investment in the Asian rice and dollar market."

"Oh~" Iwasaki Naoki felt very happy and slowly relaxed. He put down the documents and asked again.

"Where's Director Nakamura?"

"He should be waiting for you at your temporary residence."

"residence?"

"Where did he arrange for us?"

“The Plaza Hotel on Central Park South.”

"The major shareholder of this hotel is Lilith, the fiancée of your friend David Coleman."

"So after you contacted Mr. Coleman, he asked someone to find General Manager Yuta Nakamura and arranged temporary accommodation for you at the Plaza Hotel."

"David?"

"I understand." Iwasaki Naoki glanced at his sister Iwasaki Ayase unintentionally, the smile on the corner of his mouth slowly faded, and he nodded.

. . .

In front of the Plaza Hotel.

David and Carnes stood on the street in neat suits, shoulder to shoulder, looking around for beautiful women passing by on the street.

Occasionally, they would gather together to comment on the appearance and figure of a beautiful woman passing by.

When the car carrying Naoki Iwasaki and his companions arrived at the door of the hotel, David and Carnes had lost all their lewd expressions and showed sincere and friendly smiles on their faces, expressing their warm welcome to Naoki Iwasaki and his sister.

After a while~

The sixteenth floor of the Plaza Hotel.

David invited Iwasaki Naoki to enter the room prepared for him. The "hostess" Lilith, who had just finished work, took Iwasaki Ayase to the room arranged for her.

Iwasaki Naoaki sat in the living room, looking at the decorations in the surrounding rooms and expressed his gratitude to David and Carnes.

When David heard these polite words of thanks from Iwasaki Naoaki, he found it very funny and shrugged and shook his head.

"It seems that you are not very good at dealing with interpersonal relationships."

"Yeah..." When Iwasaki Naoki heard David point out his character weakness so directly, he strangely did not feel disgusted. Instead, he smiled bitterly with sympathy.

"My personality determines that... I prefer a straightforward conversation style."

"That's right!"

"I don't like beating around the bush either~" David turned his head to look at Kanes and smiled.

"But sometimes, we have to be more tactful in our words so that we can express ourselves more completely without hurting others."

"What do you see me doing?"

"You're the only one who likes talking in circles!" Kanes looked at David with a crooked mouth and complained.

"I did that to try not to dampen your confidence... okay?"

"Cut~"

"Hey!!"

"You have forgotten your lesson again, haven't you?"

"Come on, let me see your new moves!"

"..." Carnes watched David take off his coat and roll up his sleeves, as if he was about to take action. He grinned, turned his head to the side, and stopped talking.

Iwasaki Naoki once again saw the two quarreling without any barriers between them, and felt it was very interesting and intimate.

He stood up and walked to David, waved his hand and smiled: "You don't... really want to fight here?"

David smiled and said, "You don't know, when we were waiting for you downstairs just now, this kid..."

"Fxxx! Shut up!" When Carnes heard David was about to talk about what happened downstairs, he quickly jumped up to stop him.

"Uh...what's there to not say?"

"Nonsense! Of course I can't say that!"

"..." David showed a contemptuous expression on his face and looked Carnes up and down until he felt uncomfortable being looked at, then he let him go. He turned around and pulled Iwasaki Naoki to ask him the purpose of his visit to New York.

"Dang Dang Dang~"

"Please come in!"

Just as David and Iwasaki Naoko were chatting, there was a knock on the door.

A short, thin, ordinary-looking middle-aged man from the island pushed the door open. When he saw Iwasaki Naoki and the other two, he immediately bowed and apologized repeatedly in a loud voice.

When Iwasaki Naoki saw that the person coming was Nakamura Yuta, the general manager of his family's New York branch, a look of displeasure flashed across his eyes. He greeted him in a flat voice and asked him to come over and sit down, waiting for his explanation.

Nakamura Yuta stood up and looked at Iwasaki Naoko, who suddenly gained some say within the Iwasaki family. After obtaining his permission, he carefully walked to the sofa at the edge, sat down, and explained.

"I was about to leave my apartment this morning to come and greet you when I received a last-minute notice from some of my partners."

"They are all heads of partner banks that our bank has been cooperating with in the United States for many years."

"They called me early in the morning to inform me that the foreign exchange transaction I had agreed with them was cancelled."

"..Cancel?" Iwasaki Naoaki asked with a surprised expression.

'"Are you saying that the plan I submitted to the family is already being implemented?"

"Yes!" Nakamura Yuta raised his head slightly, glanced at David and Carnes, hesitated and did not speak.

Iwasaki Naoko noticed his little action and waved his hand, saying, "Just say whatever you want to say. They are all friends I can trust!"

"..Okay!" In fact, Nakamura Yuta knew that David and the other man were in the room before he came.

At this moment, he deliberately paused to test Iwasaki Naoki's attitude towards them.

A friend you can trust!

Nakamura Yuta's eyes changed slightly, and he licked his lips subconsciously, saying, "A few years ago, after countries around the world began to implement a floating exchange rate system, the exchange rates used by multinational banks for foreign exchange conversion were divided into buying rate, selling rate, and middle rate."

"When banks buy and sell foreign exchange, they usually do so at the middle exchange rate, which means that neither party will make a profit when buying and selling foreign exchange."

"The day before yesterday, after I received the notice, I immediately contacted more than a dozen banks with which I had good relationships and proposed the idea of ​​foreign exchange trading to them."