General Affairs Department II

The Director of the Personnel Department, Mr. Terasaki, and Section Chief Nonomura handed a black envelope to Section Chief Inoue of the General Affairs Second Division, informing him of his dismissal. The ladies of the General Affairs Second Division seemed unable to retain this poor section chief. Only Akahara gave the section chief a commemorative chocolate medal. The girls had long been looking forward to relaxing during the New Year, so they sent Akahara to buy tickets for a hot spring trip on a certain date. Akahara put the tickets and the hot spring hotel coupons together in the office safe to prevent them from being lost. To ensure the smooth transition of the company's computer system into the new year, the company formed a working group. On the afternoon of the last day of the year, Chairman Hayasaki Mitsunori met with guests from the American Goldsmiths Company, planning large-scale cooperation with them. All the upper-level executives of the company assured the American company of the security of the cooperative design drawings and the billion yen startup fund, which were already placed in the company's vault, awaiting the signing ceremony that evening. Hayasaki successfully signed the agreement with the guests, and the company executives partied with the guests until the early hours of the morning. Meanwhile, the year-end working group was still working overtime. Director Terasaki suddenly received a call claiming that the chairman had been kidnapped. However, it wasn't the chairman who was kidnapped but the wrongly captured former section chief Inoue on a certain date. The ladies of the General Affairs Second Division were extremely worried about not finding the section chief because he had habitually locked the safe before leaving, preventing them from retrieving the hot spring hotel coupons. When Akahara accidentally learned of the information that Section Chief Inoue had been kidnapped and a ransom of three billion yen was demanded, she immediately informed her sisters in the General Affairs Second Division. Chika decided to find the section chief first to ensure his safety. Maruhashi, who liked eavesdropping technology, set up the equipment. They overheard the conversation between the kidnappers and the upper management of the company and discovered that the mastermind behind the kidnapping was within the company itself.