So it is done

Jonathan's Ten Millions

Luckily for Jonathan, there were twenty-four hours convenience stores in the Atlas! Jonathan was somewhat surprised by this fact - but it was certainly for the best.

Of course, perhaps Jonathan would have been much better off formalizing the final list of required purchases and buying his items in one purchase, rather than rushing headlong into the first convenient store that he came across. Never mind the fact that buying such strange items in such a public place could rise an eyebrow or two, he was that desperate.

Jonathan understood that every second of his delay had consequences. Consequences that he won't be the one paying.

Cinder was tortured, maybe not daily - but regularly. Every day, every moment, Jonathan spent in idle thoughts and preparations could turn into a new round of torture for Cinder.

Jonathan was not going to hesitate.

Therefore, finding a fast and good enough round-the-clock supermarket, in which Jonathan found without any problems everything he needed, he plunged ahead.

A small knife, glasses, a set of trash bags - and other things necessary to rob a bank - for Jonathan anyway after saying goodbye to a hundred liens from his pockets later - Jonathan sighed.

Buying all sorts of office supplies was the easiest of all the steps in Jonathan's plan.

The next step was buying the Dust.

Tass was surprisingly cheap in this world. And, even though Jonathan needed a fair amount of tass, with which he planned to be extremely wasteful with - Jonathan's money was more than enough for such a spending spree.

Jonathan was still surprised that people in this world can just buy tass, but at the moment, unfortunately for Jonathan himself, he had more important concerns.

Purchasing the Dust he needed, turned out to take a slightly longer time than Jonathan expected, since finding a 24-hour Dust store was a bit more difficult. But luckily and to Jonathan's unending surprise - such a service was available in Atlas.

Furthermore, there was no extra charge for the Dust... However, only because the tass store belonged to the Schnee... Like, apparently, all the Dust stores in the Atlas.

Not that Jonathan cared about the local monopoly of Dust, of course.

Finding his target was the next step for Jonathan. For the bank robbery that is.

Shaking his bag full of various miscellaneous materials, which would be useful to him in the subsequent robbery of the bank. Jonathan was still a bit mystified that casing a bank would one day become his goal.

Shaking his head, Jonathan began searching for the appropriate bank to rob.

A bank robbery - especially the one Jonathan had in mind - had to be done under certain very stringent conditions.

First, Jonathan could not steal intangible money, so he needed to find a bank with a vault containing cash bills... Or, um... What were the names of the plastic lien squares in this world? Tautologically speaking, banknotes could consist of plastic...

Either way, Jonathan needed a bank with an available vault filled with cash. Also - it was necessary that this storage has strong lockable doors and thick walls... the stronger, the better. A requirement, however, that was not particularly stringent, since, one way or another, any bank vault had to have a similar level of protection.

Lastly, the security system. Any bank clearly had a security system - but Jonathan needed that security system to be effective.

In other words Jonathan needed to find the most secured bank there is.