The girl also took other jewelry and several bottles from the wine collection his grandmother had ordered the Hayashi staff to prepare for her family's stay.
She had ignored the ordinary bottles and selected the rarest, most expensive ones with enough precision to make the theft feel curated.
Then there was the cash:
Phei had brought a considerable amount from Paradise and stored it in his walk-in closet, rolled into neat big twenty-thousand-dollar stacks for moments when physical currency offered more convenience and fewer records.
The thief removed roughly two hundred thousand dollars.
Phei had never needed the cash after arriving, so days passed without him noticing.
'That feels insulting.'
Someone entered his home, took two hundred thousand dollars and left him requiring a fairy's assistance to discover he had been robbed. Wealth was beginning to damage his character.
He intended to reflect seriously upon that development later.
