Leo's 'Totally Legitimate' bank had genuinely taken off. With so many influential people visiting the bank so often, its reputation had also started rising rapidly.

The most important thing was that all the Lionel Family Clients that left Leo's bank, were left satisfied. They confirmed that there was no scam.

They genuinely received the money, and they didn't have to give their valuable treasures to the bank.

Moreover, just as Leo had thought, after receiving loans from him, these people gave those credits to Lionel Family to close their previous loans, and get their collateral back.

And just like that, the Lionel Family was slowly losing customers. The family tried really hard to hold the customers, even offering to pause any interest rates in the future.

Unfortunately, the customers refused to listen. Leo's bank had still become a preferable choice.

"Forgive me, old man. I know we go far back, but this is not personal."

Another valuable customer left the Lionel Family's Main Branch, carrying his valuable ring that he had given as collateral.

Meanwhile, the Patriarch of the Lionel Family was left fuming. He couldn't express this anger before the client, and only maintained a smiling face like everything was fine, but once the client left, he slammed the table hard.

The table shattered under the pressure of his fist.

"Where did this unknown bank come from?! How can it have the guts to steal clients from us?! And the heck is this business policy to give loans without collateral and at zero interest rate?"

He couldn't understand the decision that this new bank was taking. It was as if the bank was literally trying to go bankrupt.

"Find out everything about the owner of this bank, and where he gets his money from?!" He immediately ordered his men, especially since things had escalated a little too much.

First, their branches were getting blown up, which brought their credibility to the lowest it had ever been.

Which person would want to keep their valuable collaterals with them, or even their credits when the bank could literally blow up at any time, making them lose their precious items?

No matter how much he tried to explain that the main branch was the most secure place in the entire universe and their items were safe, the trust was already gone.

Lionels had gone from a family that could ruin anyone in this space sector to a family that couldn't even protect their vaults from being blown up.

Moreover, just when they were at their weakest, an unknown bank appeared out of thin air with conditions that sounded impossible?

It was as if someone, or something was trying their hardest to ruin the Lionel Family. The Lionel Family Patriarch had also started doubting that the new bank might be related to the people who were targeting him.

There was only one question he didn't understand. Why did they have to go so far?

They were literally losing money through the bank, only to steal their clients. At the same time, explosives that could blow up their vaults couldn't be cheap either.

Just why did they hate the Lionel Family so much that they were willing to spend Trillions of Credits, just to bring them down?

"It's fine! Let's see how long you can keep spending! No matter how much you flail, you can't surpass the Lionel Family!"

At the same time, he sent another message, this time to the Financial Watchdog Agency.

Previously, he didn't pay attention to the appearance of a new bank. After all, every decade, there were a few insects that appeared, only to disappear without leaving a single mark on history.

That's why, even when he heard that a new bank was applying for a permit, he didn't try to block it. But now, it was different.

This unknown insect, was definitely leaving a mark on history.

"Find a way to get this new bank closed down. Once you help me, I will make you filthy rich!"

A single message to the person that had approved Leo's permit, and the game had started.

Lionel Family, instead of using brute force to destroy a bank that had too much attention on it, was using the authorities to crush this bank.

"Don't worry. I can find thousands of excuses to close the bank. It shall be done. But it will cost you more than just making me filthy rich."

A message came back, which made the Patriarch smile.

"Things that can be solved with money are always the best." He mumbled with a smirk.

He started typing a new message.

"You'll get what you want. Just get it done! Also, I don't just want the bank to be closed. Put accusations and arrest the owner as well. Destroy their credibility as well! Make the man who dared to threaten us, spend the rest of his life in prison!"

"Consider it done!" The man in the financial watchdog office burst into laughter.

"Arrest a man for being too generous? Close a bank for giving zero-interest loans? It's almost too easy," Vex said to his secretary. "Draft the charges... 'Financial Recklessness with Intent to Destabilize the Market' and 'Gross Negligence of Capitalist Values.' That should do it."

He didn't care who the owner was. In his mind, anyone giving away money without collateral wasn't a banker... They were reckless and quite possibly a corrupt philanthropist with ill intent to destroy the market.

Moreover, the person that had received the permit was merely a new fletching from a recently promoted middle tier planet with barely any history. There was nothing to be worried about his background.

....

Meanwhile, at the smoking crater of what used to be the Lionel Family's Sector 4 branch, a silver ship landed.

A Special Agent stepped out of the ship, escorted by a team of forensics from the Galactic Union's dispatch team.

She stood in the center of the debris, closed her eyes, and reached out to touch the ground.

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