The ending of this year’s conference had been fixed. It was time to agree on the venue and time for next year’s meeting, but such a discussion wasn’t suitable for the current atmosphere. The rift between the members had deepened to a serious extent, and problems that would burst the global economy all at once were spreading worldwide. The globalization of finance that the Bilderberg Club had created over the decades was now haunting them. When the United States coughed, the flu spread all over the world.

Cough. Argh!

Cough. Aaaaargh!

***

Jonathan headed toward the entrance of the conference hall to hand out envelopes containing invitation letters to the members who came out. Only a small number of people took a curious look at it. However, out of the people who did, the majority of them returned it back to Jonathan. Their faces had stiffened as soon as they had checked it. Soon, members began to swarm around Jonathan.

“What the hell are you doing?”

He replied casually, “As you can see, it’s an invitation letter to a new club being held in Korea next year.”

The members’ faces turned red with anger, but they couldn’t do anything in front of Jonathan now. In particular, most of the U.S. members were intertwined with the Jonathan Group.

“Who would attend the meeting held by an Asian?”

This type of question was better than simply ignoring the letter.

“This letter of yours is a notification that signals war against us. Don’t you know that?” one of the members asked rather sharply.

“What do you mean? If you don’t want to accept the invitation, then don’t. By the way, Gillian, Joshua, Jessica, Jamie, Daniel, and I are leaving the Bilderberg Club as of this year,” Jonathan answered with a shrug.

The U.S. President gave Jonathan a look as if he wanted to talk in a private place, but he had zero influence in the club. Thus, Jonathan ignored him and continued, “The Bilderberg Club only builds up resentment instead of harmony.”

“Jonathan, you guys are the ones who made this whole issue!” Dresner Rothschild couldn’t tear up the invitation, but he threw it back at Jonathan and raised his voice.

Jonathan replied calmly, “I will make it clear here that only those with invitation letters will be admitted.”

He handed the invitation letter again to Dresner, and everyone became quiet. When Dresner was about to say something, Jonathan spoke first, “Will you throw it away? Or will you take it and think about it?”

Dresner looked around and noticed that there were a host of cunning individuals staring at him. They were all people who were famous for sniffing out power and money in the world. That was why Dresner couldn’t back down, and he was determined to act more boldly. He threw the invitation letter on the floor and trampled it on with his heels.

“No one here is going to fall for this prank, Jonathan.”

Then, he looked at the members who made eye contact with him, but they were just standing still.

“I won’t attend it either.”

Most of the members claimed they wouldn’t go, but the invitation letters didn’t slip out of their arms. Jonathan nodded calmly and walked out of the crowd. Gillian and the other people who belonged to Na Seon-Hu’s groups followed him.

The faces of the members who saw them leaving showed signs of defeat. Everyone knew that the people in Na Seon-Hu’s group had built their influence within the club for years, and now the Bilderberg Club wouldn’t go smoothly without their cooperation. However, they had announced their withdrawal all at once and left after creating a new club. If the forces that controlled the world’s order were divided into two like they were in the Cold War, people could convince them to change their course of action somehow. Nevertheless, the real problem was that it was difficult to estimate how far their power would expand after the subprime crisis.

Members alternately looked between the spot where Na Seon-Hu’s group left and where Dresner stood with a mixture of resentment and reproach.

One remarked coldly, “The Rothschild family has brought this upon yourselves. Why did you buy the Jonathan Group’s nuclear waste? It made the Asian flap his wings.”

“We haven’t forgotten the provocation of your head, Isaac Rothschild. You will have to deal with this in your family.”

“Reveal the secret now. How large is the Big Deal of the entire oil market you brought in?”

“Dresner! How much did your family give them?”

“When the subprime market explodes, the oil market will be destroyed as well. The Asian will sweep our assets on top of the accumulated funds and the money you lay at their feet. This is extremely serious!”

“Good job, Dresner!”

“Dresner!”

“Dresner!!!!”

For a moment, Dresner almost told them how much his family had paid, but he caught himself at the last second.

Why the ** are they asking me? The one who created this **-show was Isaac, not me!

Dresner swallowed down the words he wanted to spew out, then managed to calm himself down. “Next year’s Bilderberg Club conference will be held at the Rothschild Hotel in London. The date is May 5th. Let’s work together to settle the situation by that day.”

A member snarled, “Work together? Don’t be ridiculous. The Rothschild family will have to smooth the problem down just as the Jonathan Group has solved the Pray crisis on their own. This will happen even if you have to dissolve your family.”

“The mortgage loan business the Rothschilds took shouldn’t be ruined.”

“Can you resolve this?”

“Can you deal with this, Dresner?”

Dresner clenched his teeth No! I can’t! No!

“That’s why you need to help us, the Rothschild family. For your property.”

The hall became noisy again.

***

Dresner didn’t return to England. Instead, he traveled back and forth between Washington D.C. and Wall Street multiple times. He was focused on solving the emotional conflict that was created by Isaac Rothschild.

It was another day when two Wall Street investment banks went bankrupt. Such things had happened quickly in the past three months. One in three banks and securities firms in North America were going bankrupt, and the Jonathan Group consistently showed that they wanted to purchase them at dirt cheap prices. Several large banks were already undergoing a Bank Run1.

Dresner hung up his phone and looked under the bridge. The river below, where the darkness of the night stood, seemed to lure him. The money that had been spent on buying the oil market was recorded as the largest loss in human history. The Rothschild Chain that had the mortgage business was on the verge of losing its life.

Why should I die? Isaac, that son of a bitch, is the one who screwed up our family. He’s the one who should die.

It was always like this.

Dresner secretly received a call to attend the emergency meeting with the U.S. Treasury Department. Officials from securities companies and major banks, including Silverman and AP Morgan, were there. Dresner felt like he was entering the enemy camp alone.

It wasn’t originally like this. The influence of the Rothschild family in the U.S. was tremendous, and the government always treated them favorably. However, they were glaring at him now.

They are looking at me as if I’m an infectious virus. Well, that’s not wrong because the moment our chain bursts, an unbelievably gigantic nuclear bomb will explode in the U.S. too. Haha.

Dresner skimmed through the room, and it looked like the U.S. government didn’t have many solutions.

“The Rothschild Chain accounts for eighty percent of the subprime market, so your chain shouldn’t collapse. Therefore, we have agreed to launch an emergency bailout system of up to two hundred billion dollars. How much does your chain need?”

“Three trillion dollars,” Dresner answered without hesitation, and the room was silent for a while.

Then, a furious voice broke the silence, “You are talking about our government’s annual budget, Dresner. This is a bailout. If the Rothschild family doesn’t even show the will to alleviate the situation themselves…”

He replied bluntly, “We don’t.”

“Excuse me?”

“You still don’t get it? We can’t. We would have already done it if it was possible. Most of my family’s assets are mortgaged. We need more than three trillion dollars to save the chain.”

“But you are the Rothschild family.”

“Haha, we used to be.”

“Hey, Dresner! What’s wrong with your attitude?”

“This is the consequence of you ignoring my word at the Bilderberg Club two months ago.”

“This is not the Bilderberg Club. Some of us are not members of the club, so please refrain from speaking.”

“You should have done your best to save our chain. Regardless of the result, you should have shown some effort. Then, you could have at least bought time. Well, it would have been like this in the end anyway.”

Everyone in the hall was appalled by Dresner’s words.

“Hahaha…”

Since the hall was small and quiet, Dresner’s despairing laugh echoed through the air. Then, his phone rang. He had not changed it to vibration mode, so the bell resonated like a morning alarm. Nervous eyes were focused on him as he picked up the call.

“I appreciate your hard work.”

Dresner just said one thing on the phone and got up.

“Dresner? Did you…”

“I just filed for bankruptcy protection. It’s up to you to accept it or not, but would you be willing to accept it? Three trillion dollars worth of nuclear waste, hahahaha. If you do, I’ll be happy to applaud you. It’s going to corner both of us to death.”

No one could stop Dresner from leaving. Things ended up exploding, and most of the people covered their faces. Their visions went black, but the flashes of a nuclear bomb exploding day by day filled their mind.

The global economy was over, and Dresner stumbled. The people who were still in the meeting panicked. Many of them ran past Dresner, and most of them were the owners of major banks on Wall Street. The faces of government officials were filled with despair, and they groped through data documents on the desk as if they had to do something. Dresner thought that even a North Korea nuclear weapon detonating in U.S. airspace wouldn’t cause such chaos.

However, what could he do? The real nuclear bomb of capitalist society had already burst.

“Haha… Hahahaha…”

***

「The Rothschild Chain has filed for bankruptcy protection. 3.2 trillion dollars worth of bankruptcy!

A catastrophe has directly hit the global markets. Even the global investment bank chain that has boasted of a 200-year tradition couldn’t cope with the shock of subprime mortgage insolvency. The Chain acquired the mortgage unit of Jonathan Investment and Finance Group, which had substantially dominated the subprime mortgage loan market, then they became the bank with the largest number of mortgage bonds across the world. In the meantime, Dresner Rothschild has been running around to save the chain, but discussions with prestigious banks have collapsed from the beginning. It is recorded as the biggest bankruptcy in global history as it’s worth 3.2 trillion dollars, and would have a huge impact on the world… 」

1. A mass withdrawal of money from the bank. ☜