[the irritation melts from Edamura's features almost instantly, brows raising in surprise at the question. the assumption that he became a swindler out of necessity. did he start scamming people for the money. . . ? that was a part of it, sure. . . but it certainly wasn't the whole reason. it's a little embarrassing to admit how stupid he was back then, so he brushes past that question to address everything else]
I'm not.
[that's a firm answer]
I've run confidence schemes on them before, though. I helped take down a gang in Los Angeles, and. . . [here. he hesitates, something shuttering his features in favor of a forced, distant neutrality] . . . a large yakuza organization operating out of both Shanghai and Tokyo.
[. . . he doesn't want to talk about that one]
I work with a much larger crew headed by a man named Laurent. He's the one who recruited me.
no subject
[the irritation melts from Edamura's features almost instantly, brows raising in surprise at the question. the assumption that he became a swindler out of necessity. did he start scamming people for the money. . . ? that was a part of it, sure. . . but it certainly wasn't the whole reason. it's a little embarrassing to admit how stupid he was back then, so he brushes past that question to address everything else]
I'm not.
[that's a firm answer]
I've run confidence schemes on them before, though. I helped take down a gang in Los Angeles, and. . . [here. he hesitates, something shuttering his features in favor of a forced, distant neutrality] . . . a large yakuza organization operating out of both Shanghai and Tokyo.
[. . . he doesn't want to talk about that one]
I work with a much larger crew headed by a man named Laurent. He's the one who recruited me.
[all those years ago]
"Team Confidence," he calls it. Stupid, right?