"Who…… who on earth is it…… who!"

A woman glared at the monitor, venting a chilly fury.

Munich, Germany. The top floor of Eisenberg Global Capital's headquarters.

Director Johanna von Eisenberg, head of global investment, stared at the lurching chart through her bright red glasses frames.

They had spent years preparing for today's battle.

They had moved astronomical sums to take down the pound, and worked hard to join hands with forces scattered all over the world.

With servers based overseas, they had stirred up conflict in British society.

They had amplified unverifiable rumors over and over and shaken politicians and the press until the British prime minister was pushed to the edge of the cliff.

So that faith in the pound would crack! So that the British people themselves would lose faith in their government!

They had built a mood in which fear bred more fear.

Their tightly woven plan had worked perfectly.

When word got around that pension and welfare budgets might be cut, public anger turned on the government.

Distrust of the government spread into fear in the market, and frightened money fled Britain. Just as they had expected, the pound collapsed helplessly.

Everything had gone according to plan.

Until she checked the chart in front of her now!

The red frames made Johanna look even more prickly.

On edge, she couldn't take her eyes off the chart.

1.0327! A perfectly packed-down bottom! The very point they had been waiting for so eagerly.

The problem was the moment after that.

The instant the pound hit bottom! Buying on an unimaginable scale erupted.

The buying exceeded the volume Eisenberg had prepared.

Someone else's money had shown up!

Unidentified, enormous capital was riding on top of their buy orders.

"Since when……?"

Johanna's eyes turned sharp.

As she traced back through the trading records, the truth slowly came into view.

It wasn't money that had appeared out of nowhere. It had been there all along.

Someone had been building short positions in the same direction while the pound slowly slid.

With so many giant sums flowing together, it simply hadn't…