Isekai by Moonlight

[nemonowan]

"We're broke."

"We can't be," Ryou said. "We have millions of yen worth of stocks in the mutual fund."

Shario-chan held up a letter. "And we owe the government two-and-a-half million yen."

I think you need to recheck your numbers. Two-and-a-half million yen were at MOST twenty-five thousand US Dollars, more likely twenty thousand.

It's way too low an amount for a group with their resources to consider being bankrupt over. Ami's mom could probably get a loan for that amount in any bank no questions asked given her profession. Not to mention the wealth that the Outers have casually displayed, it's peanuts for the Kaiou family.

[robkelk]

They aren't bankrupt - the passage mentions that it's ready cash that Shario-chan's worried about, not net wealth.

And if they take out a loan, somebody's going to ask why they need the money... They're trying to keep their IDs secret, despite them being known to the police already.

EDIT: And I did check my numbers. $25k is the maximum summary fine for ignoring ATC in Canada. (A court fine is much higher.) So the Americans are insisting on punishment even if they aren't throwing the book at Haruka in order to find out who she is behind the seifuku.