If I Don’t Earn 1 Trillion Won, My Regression Ends - Chapter 37

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Episode 37

 

“Honestly, I think Mom’s right too… 1 billion won is already amazing! Right? Some people never get to touch that kind of money in their entire lives.”

 

I was shocked. How dare Madam Bang Suk-yeong oppose the decision of the divine child fairy!

 

“We shouldn’t be greedy. Our family can live contentedly with what we have. We can eat whatever we want, buy whatever we want, and spend freely – there’ll still be plenty left over!”

 

“Mom, what do you want to buy?”

 

“Louis what-ton? That thing and Cha-what-nel looked nice.”

 

“What about you? I thought Goo-what-cci looked decent.”

 

‘Of course they would…’

 

This couple can’t even filter Chanel and Gucci properly…

 

Thank goodness I prepared them in advance by saying it was money blessed by my late maternal grandmother who was worried about her descendants’ future.

 

Otherwise, the moment 1 billion won appeared in the bank account, this precious couple might have held hands and marched straight to the department store.

 

Actually, 1 billion won is enough to become part of the FIRE community in this era, so it’s not like I don’t understand my parents’ feelings, but-

 

‘Test supervisor! When are you going to tell me about the family combined conditions!’

 

My money is in danger! I can see brain death right before my eyes!!!

 

1 billion won is nothing to waver over when my target is a whopping 1 trillion won.

 

I calmed my burning insides and persuaded my parents.

 

“Umm… wait, I’m hearing something in my head…! You ungrateful children! When you come to pull weeds at my grave, I blessed you this money while getting dirty looks from the grim reapers, worried you wouldn’t even have a sickle to bring! I’m so resentful I can’t close my eyes even in the afterlife! Cough cough!”

 

Take this, grandmother’s unfilial beam attack!

 

“Oh, Mother-in-law!”

 

“…Brother! If our daughter really becomes a crazy shaman because Mom keeps coming and going like this, will you take responsibility for our Sing-a’s life?!”

 

Madam Bang Suk-yeong fiercely criticized Youngest Uncle as if she had never even imagined becoming a FIRE member carrying a Chanel bag.

 

She pulled me into her arms and cried out sadly.

 

“Daughter! Don’t scare Mom like this! Buy whatever you want. Mom doesn’t need to buy Chanel…!”

 

‘You never intended to buy it for me anyway.’

 

None of the people currently in the living room seemed to seriously believe my grandmother possession cosplay, but they all seemed to seriously believe in the possibility of little Seosing-a going crazy.

 

The 90s were truly innocent in many ways.

 

If this were the 2020s.

 

I would have either appeared as a story contributor on shaman YouTube or been dragged to a hospital ward eating psychiatric medication like meals…

 

Anyway, I was also trying not to go too overboard, so I only used grandmother possession as a last resort in truly urgent cases.

 

I returned to being the good and cute little Seosing-a and said.

 

“Then let’s put only 500 million out of the 1 billion into Daum, and put 500 million into Quera. Decision final.”

 

“Final!”

 

“Final!”

 

Uncle weakly resisted beside my parents who were sitting side by side chanting in unison.

 

“Why Quera all of a sudden…”

 

Gah!

 

How dare you not trust Park Min-su?!

 

Even when I liquidated Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor Company in the summer, I never touched Quera at all. If possible, I want to bury it like this forever and let it age.

 

With the same devout heart I had when praying with NVIDIA and Tesla buried in my chest in the 2020s…

 

I shall never be swayed by ignorant demons.

 

‘A blood oath to never betray Park Min-su no matter what devil’s whispers I hear…!’

 

I must remember.

 

Park Min-su came from the same time period as me.

 

Although he’s currently being oppressed under the stigma of being a black-haired American, traitor, national enemy, and Korean bastard… that man was the protagonist returner of this world, possessing future knowledge incomparable to a mere liberal arts graduate small company employee.

 

Look at Park Min-su’s recent moves.

 

Truly terrifying.

 

Quantum computers, AI, and whatnot.

 

He’s promoting as if it’s not the end of the century in 1999 but the 21st century 2026, with the momentum to make Jobs and Elon Musk obsolete relics.

 

At this rate, I was so anxious I was almost in tears, worried that even Satoshi, the father of Bitcoin, creator of coin enthusiasts, my savior, my light, my hope, might not be born.

 

So to prepare for the worst-case scenario, I need to keep one foot on this reliable bus called the returner coin.

 

“Brother!”

 

“…Final.”

 

Youngest Uncle chanted with a gloomy expression.

 

Rampa Lim’s eyes watching all this contained half the feeling of ‘There’s such a foolish and strange family in this world!’ and half the feeling of ‘Sing-a really is a fairy~’

 

This is the first time I can see so clearly into Rampa Lim’s inner thoughts.

 

‘Probably the demon effect I planted on the first day we met, talking about fortune-telling, hasn’t worn off yet…’

 

♧

 

The next day.

 

Father and Youngest Uncle headed to the securities company together.

 

I don’t need to worry about the two of them conspiring to place orders different from mine.

 

I can check in real-time anyway.

 

【Mission! Let’s Become a Billionaire!】

 

【Time Remaining: D-9607】

 

【Challenger’s Current Holdings:

 

$2,332.22 (₩3.2651 million)

 

Mission Progress: 0.0002%】

 

【Asset Holdings Details:

 

· Dream Tree Savings Account – ₩2.8394 million

 

· Piggy Bank – ₩425,729】

 

【Contributing Assets Details:

 

· Stocks(KOSPI) [Owner: Father / Contribution: 100%]

 

– ₩579,175,000(579 million)

 

· Stocks(KOSDAQ) [Owner: Father / Contribution: 100%]

 

– ₩500,000,000(500 million)

 

· Real Estate [Owner: Mother / Contribution: 100%]

 

– ₩120,000,000(120 million)】

 

‘Sigh… It’s a long road ahead.’

 

Still, let me take comfort in the fact that the progress rate is steadily increasing.

 

“Knock knock. By the way, Test Supervisor~. Could you possibly show me what the progress rate would be if family assets were combined? As you know, I don’t have a smartphone and I’m weak with numbers.”

 

I asked in the most polite tone possible, but didn’t expect a response. It had always been one-way communication-

 

【(*Hypothetical) Total Combined: ₩1.202 billion】

 

【Mission Progress: 0.12%】

 

Oh?!

 

“You were there? You should have said something~.”

 

I bolted upright from my lying position and neatly arranged my hair.

 

This was the system window that had been in hiding ever since mercilessly throwing a [Insufficient] report card and a thermos as compensation back in May.

 

I thought a special report card would come when I made 1 billion won with Hancom, but it didn’t come, and even after throwing 500 million each into Daum and Quera, it remained silent.

 

I quickly loaded up tears and began murmuring in a gentle tone.

 

“I was so scared I thought I was going to die. I thought you were abandoning Sing-a like this… sob. Although Sing-a received an insufficient report card last time, taking the warm signal Test Supervisor sent that day as a lesson, I’ve been working even harder-”

 

【Grading the challenger’s important milestone performance…】

 

“….”

 

Ugh~ Shut up, okay? Got it~.

 

【Grading has been completed.】

 

【Challenger’s midterm report card: 92/100 points – Excellent】

 

“Oh my!”

 

Examiner unnie!!!! Waaah!!!!

 

【Overall assessment: Victory after holding out to the end. Starting with 50 million won and entering the billion-won range—you’ve successfully passed through the Quantum Jump phase. Don’t tell me the numbers in your bank account feel unrealistic. You haven’t even crossed the 0.1% barrier yet. If 1 trillion won is the summit of the mountain, you haven’t even reached base camp.

 

However, this boldness of not being tempted by the 1 billion won before your eyes and immediately betting the entire amount again is praiseworthy. The word ‘excellent’ isn’t wasted on you today.】

 

Sniff, I think I’m going to cry…

 

Had our examiner ever spoken to me so warmly before? My eyes welled up with tears at the gracious taste of receiving an [Excellent] grade for the first time.

 

But this wasn’t the time to sniffle pathetically.

 

What was more important was—

 

【Final grade: [Excellent] level reward】

 

‘I wonder what they’ll give me?’

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