If I Don’t Earn 1 Trillion Won, My Regression Ends - Chapter 25

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Episode 25

Securities firm on the 2nd floor of the Bundang Seohyeon Station commercial building.

The people in front of the electronic board were busy puffing away at their cigarettes. Sighs and curses could be heard mixed together.

On the electronic board that filled the entire wall, bright blue numbers were pouring down like a waterfall.

【Quera Korea】 50,000 won per share.

【Samsung Electronics】 40,000 won per share.

【Hyundai Motor Company】 8,000 won per share.

All of this had happened this month.

【Quera Korea】’s stock price was cut in half due to rumors of withdrawing from their Korean factory, and 【Samsung Electronics】, which had been struggling to hold on, also dropped to the 40,000 won range due to restructuring issues.

I’m not a god, nor am I a former fund manager, so how could I possibly memorize the specific numbers or dates of when the bottom would be?

I had been anxiously checking the newspapers every morning to the point of nearly getting a mental illness, but when I heard the news of Quera’s stock price being cut in half, it felt like trumpets were sounding from heaven.

Although 【Quera】’s headquarters is in the United States and what’s in Korea is just a branch office, it was still Park Min-su’s company anyway.

There’s no way the protagonist’s company in a regression story would collapse.

But cut in half? This was an opportunity and signal that would never come again!

‘Let’s go! Let’s dive in!’

My heart was pounding with deep breaths.

Even though I’m living in this shitty environment where indoor smoking is legal, at this moment even the cigarette smoke felt fragrant.

The allocation was Quera: 50%, Samsung Electronics: 30%, Hyundai Motor: 20%.

That’s 500 shares, 375 shares, and 1,250 shares respectively.

Father, who had been pressing down hard with his ballpoint pen, kept wiping his palms on his pants.

“Excuse me. This is a buy order.”

“…Are you really going to place the order like this?”

The counter employee asked.

After receiving the order slip, he glanced at me standing next to Father, then lowered his voice and whispered.

“Quera dropped another 7% just this morning. Haven’t you heard the rumors? Chairman Park Min-su is supposedly withdrawing from Korea. I’m telling you this because I have a daughter around the same age.”

Wow~ This is the true warmth of the 90s.

But having come this far, Seo Shin-hyeon wouldn’t hesitate either.

“Just put it through like that.”

The employee had a look that said he couldn’t understand, but with a sigh, he mechanically entered the order slip into the computer.

Whirr! Whirrrr!

It was the moment cash turned into paper.

Standing next to Father as he received the confirmation, I could hardly hide my excitement. When I covered my cheeks with both hands, they were hot.

【Mission! Let’s Become a Billionaire!】

【Challenger’s Current Holdings:

$1,666.48 (₩2.3331 million)

Mission Progress: 0.00016%】

【Asset Holdings:

· Dream Tree Savings Account – ₩2,100,000

· Piggy Bank – ₩233,078】

【Contributed Assets:

· Stocks [Owner: Father / Contribution: 100%] – ₩50,000,000

· Real Estate [Owner: Mother / Contribution: 100%] – ₩60,000,000】

The cash entry disappeared from the contributed assets list and changed to stocks.

Good. Now I just need to wait well.

The explosive millennium storm where the energy of the nation called South Korea would explode, the hopeful new millennium.

And…

‘Come on!’

【Grading the challenger’s performance at an important juncture…】

As expected!

The world came to a lonely stop once again.

Next to Father, who was frozen in the pose of wiping sweat, I took deep breaths and stared into space.

It’s not my birthday yet, but I knew a report card would appear because this was such an important moment.

I waited with half anxiety, half anticipation.

I had done my best, but was it really my best?

【Grading completed.】

【Challenger’s Special Report Card: 80/100 points Excellent】

Wait, Excellent again?

‘No- no. I shouldn’t think like this.’

Last time was Excellent grade with tutorial bonus points, but this was purely Excellent earned through my own skills. The two cases were different.

【Overall Review: Congratulations. Your efforts have paid off. Through persistent observation, you magnificently succeeded in buying at the bottom. Should I praise your honesty for finally thinking of riding the protagonist’s bus, or should I pity you? Of course, I don’t mean that’s bad.

Were you expecting Outstanding grade? We’ll have to see the results for that. It’s not time to pop the champagne yet. You’ve heard the saying that buying is technique but selling is art, haven’t you?】

“…”

I get it… stop hitting me…

【Final Grade: [Excellent] Grade Reward】

【’Future Kaleidoscope’ has been added to the challenger’s wallet.】

♧

Something I didn’t know – the lucky pouch was a spatial item.

The [Dice of Fate] that had already melted into me and become part of me was so small in actual size that I hadn’t thought that far.

But the [Future Kaleidoscope] was a long cylinder, much larger than the lucky pouch.

I thought I’d go home, hide it well, and just roughly pack it for now, but when I stuffed it in, it went in smoothly without a trace, didn’t it?

I hurried home and tried stuffing real-world items like my diary in as a test, and they all went in without any problem.

From the outside, you couldn’t even tell there was anything inside.

While I was impressed by how useful it was, I also thought I needed to guard it even more carefully. What if someone shook it out when I wasn’t around?

Anyway.

‘Future Kaleidoscope…’

Unlike the damn dice that had no explanation at all, this time there was a description attached.

Though it was only one line.

【Shows you how the subject appeared as recorded in the original history of 2026.】

I wondered if this was also used on people like the dice, but thinking it over, it said ‘subject’ not ‘person.’

If it’s not limited to people, the applications become endless.

‘If I look at empty land, I can even confirm which area has the best soil.’

Only at times like this did quick-witted Donmi’s cunning mind spin rapidly.

In other words, even if I couldn’t buy up all of Pangyo Forest, with just this kaleidoscope I could easily confirm where the Kakao Headquarters site would be.

Then the possibility of missing the key plot? Almost zero!

“But wait, how many seconds can I look through this thing?”

A three-month cooldown timer was displayed on the kaleidoscope body, but the usage time wasn’t visible.

Usage time is more important than cooldown time…!

If it’s 1 second usage time, what could I see in 1 second? I’m not Quicksilver or anything.

‘I should test it first.’

It would be better to use it on a person rather than objects.

Who should I try it on…?

Deep in thought, I walked along shaking my shoe bag. Today was a weekday. I was on my way home after finishing ballet academy.

Then, as I got closer to the apartment.

I spotted a familiar silhouette from the direction of the playground.

“Huh?”

A neat polo sweater and shirt collar, well-groomed flax-colored hair, and pale skin like a scholar who never sees sunlight.

A perfect stereotypical young master.

Who else could be such a model student, handsome young master in this neighborhood~.

“Hyeon-gyo oppa? What are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be at academy right now?”

After being thoroughly beaten by those young demons Jeong Hyeon-hye and Choi Chamsol several times, I completely threw away my arrogant regressor mindset.

Not only did I call people like Rampa Lim ‘oppa’ out of respect for their character, but now I sweetly called even the neighborhood brats ‘oppa~’ and ‘unni~’.

Let me emphasize again, if only I forget my age, no one else will know…

“Is your academy closed today? That’s right~ Good thinking. Who else lives as busily as you, oppa? At that age, Gifted Student Program, school, and academy too. I’m getting out of breath just thinking about it. Right. Have you eaten dinner? Isn’t it dinner time?”

“…”

“Hm?”

Jeong Hyeon-gyo said nothing at all.

While I talked for a while, he just sat on the swing in the same position, only blinking his eyes. Just staring blankly.

Something’s strange?

Ah, right. He’s a kid who hasn’t come to the playground since he started attending the Gifted Student Program.

It’s already odd that he’s sitting here alone at sunset.

“Are you sick somewhere?”

“…It’s Sing-a. Hello.”

Only then did Jeong Hyeon-gyo react slowly.

He was extremely slow. Whenever Mother asked why we couldn’t see Hyeon-gyo, Professor Eun Yeon-ju would say he was sick, and it seemed his health really wasn’t good.

Looking closely, his complexion wasn’t very good either.

Though he’d grown incomparably taller than before since he was in his growth period, he seemed to have only shot up in height like bamboo, making his cheeks look gaunt too.

Is this what a sickly Joseon Dynasty scholar who dies young from only studying would look like…?

Feeling somewhat sympathetic, I reached my hand toward Jeong Hyeon-gyo’s forehead. I was going to check for fever.

“Ah!”

Smack! The sound was loud.

I was startled and looked at Jeong Hyeon-gyo while holding my stinging hand. Did he just… hit me?

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