If I Don’t Earn 1 Trillion Won, My Regression Ends - Chapter 54

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Episode 54

 

Chapter 6. The New World Was There Part 2

 

Seosing-a unconsciously let out a sigh of relief.

 

‘This is definitely the Rampa Lim I know.’

 

Because he was a world-famous figure, ordinary citizen Seosing-a had found Rampa Lim intimidating for the first few months, no matter how young he currently was.

 

That feeling had completely disappeared after they went through the life-and-death ordeal of kidnapping together…

 

Just moments ago, the young boy walking alone through the snowy path looked exactly like Rampa Lim from those days.

 

The man who had risen to an untouchable position, radiating infinite dynamism and transcendence.

 

“I’ve been waiting forever. Why are you so late? Do you know how cold it was?”

 

“…”

 

Seosing-a stamped her feet and hurriedly turned around. She carefully picked up what she had briefly set down on the ground.

 

“Phew~ But you’re not late. Don’t worry. It’s still before midnight. Come quickly~ What are you doing over there?”

 

“…”

 

Rampa Lim walked over with a bewildered feeling.

 

Korea was too cold compared to the places where he was born and raised. Perhaps because of that, even his brain seemed to have become sluggish.

 

What Seosing-a thrust before his eyes was a choco pie.

 

She had stacked them up to resemble a cake, but it was undoubtedly the most pathetic among all the cakes Rampa Lim had received throughout his many lifetimes.

 

“Hold this. I need to light the candle.”

 

Because of the relentless winter wind, Seosing-a had quite a struggle lighting the match.

 

After somehow managing to light it, she hurriedly began singing the birthday song.

 

Rampa Lim stood still and listened.

 

The thin-skinned Seosing-a stumbled over the song several times, but Rampa Lim didn’t say a word and listened obediently.

 

Especially the part that went ‘our beloved Rampa.’

 

“Happy birthday~ Wow. Hurry and blow it out!”

 

“What?”

 

“The candle! You have to blow it out and make a wish.”

 

“A wish?”

 

“Yes, quickly~ This can’t go out.”

 

A wish. Rampa Lim looked down at Seosing-a’s face as she desperately tried to protect the candle flame.

 

「Christmas is the day when miracles are born.」

 

「Really?」

 

「Yes. It’s the day when people wish for them.」

 

「I see…」

 

“Hasn’t the miracle already been born?”

 

“Huh?”

 

“Never mind. Thank you.”

 

There was no need to explain these chaotic emotions.

 

Rampa Lim slowly looked away from the young face that seemed almost desperate in her worry that the candle might go out.

 

When he blew out the candle, Seosing-a smiled brightly.

 

“I didn’t lie~ Right?”

 

“Lie?”

 

“I said I’d come back before Christmas. You even threatened me not to lie, and you forgot?”

 

She glanced at him sideways, then immediately became fidgety again as she said.

 

“I was a little late, but… Sing-a won’t hate me, right?”

 

Rampa Lim silently looked down at Seosing-a.

 

Words kept getting stuck in his throat, making him feel helpless.

 

So after a considerable silence, the boy finally managed to spit out just two words.

 

“How could I.”

 

How could I hate you.

 

Really, Seosing-a. How could I do that?

 

♧

 

‘Phew~ Thank goodness…!’

 

Only then did I breathe a sigh of relief.

 

Rampa Lim’s expression when he told me not to lie to him was so ominous that perceptive loser Seo had instinctively realized it early on.

 

This is a landmine if I step on it!

 

So no matter how hectic things got with Jeong Hyeon-gyo’s situation, I never forgot that I had to return by Christmas no matter what.

 

When I called in tears because of the heavy snowfall, Rampa Lim said it was okay nearly a hundred times, but I wasn’t fooled!

 

Sure enough.

 

As soon as I somehow rushed back home, what I heard from Father was that Rampa Lim hadn’t come in yet…

 

That he hadn’t come home yesterday either, saying he was sleeping at the hospital…!

 

‘If he was the type to sleep there, he would have slept there long ago!’

 

It’s a 2-hour round trip from the hospital to home.

 

Yet he was the type who would stubbornly come back, limping on his injured leg.

 

Why would the nephew of a world-class conglomerate uncle, who had 5-star hotels welcoming him with open arms, be living in a boarding house like Haseokram?

 

It was only because of me.

 

Since he had crawled in saying he wanted warm care and comfort from little Seosing-a, he got properly sulky when that Seosing-a was absent and broke her promise.

 

The landmine exploded. I’m doomed.

 

I have to fix this somehow…!

 

With that mindset of at least gaining some sympathy, I was holding choco pies in the middle of winter.

 

It was so cold I was even having an existential crisis—

 

‘Thank goodness. I’m glad I came.’

 

As soon as the highway opened, it was worth stubbornly coming back alone, leaving behind Mother’s “are you crazy?” look and the Jeong siblings’ troubled gazes.

 

Watching Rampa Lim bite into the choco pie and make a tearful face from the cold, I burst into relieved laughter.

 

Rampa Lim smiled back at me.

 

And right at that moment.

 

【You have succeeded in the sudden mission.】

 

“Huh?”

 

【Sudden Mission: Promise with Rampa Lim】 (Success!)

 

【A miracle for Christmas. For a person’s fate to change and certain relationships to form, proper timing and wishes prepared accordingly must always be ready.】

 

【Upon failure: Rampa Lim’s destiny power -100%】

 

【Upon completion: Seosing-a’s destiny power +100%】

 

What, what?

 

‘The landmine was a real landmine!!!’

 

【Causality fluctuation detected!】

 

【Causality has been refracted due to the singularity’s intervention.】

 

【The fate of connection ‘Rampa Lim’ is being altered.】

 

Oh! Wow?

 

Though it was an unexpected triumph, I immediately showed delight.

 

‘Then finally Rampa Lim’s information too-!’

 

【Due to unmet conditions, ‘Rampa Lim’s’ relationship information will not be unlocked.】

 

Finally…?

 

“….”

 

“Sing-a? What’s wrong?”

 

“…You, you….”

 

Do you think you’re so great?!

 

Unable to contain my frustration, I glared at Rampa Lim’s bewildered face. Unlike just moments before, how annoying he looked now.

 

‘Ham Gyeong-seok and Jeong Hyeon-gyo opened right away, but what’s with this guy acting so expensive!’

 

♧

 

The year 2000.

 

A new millennium, the 21st century had begun.

 

Thanks to the widespread fear of the so-called Y2K bug, where computers wouldn’t recognize the year 2000 and civilization would collapse, people had been very noisy since the day before.

 

Everyone was serious and grave, saying the world would end.

 

Our house wasn’t much different, with my precious parents making a fuss about needing to quickly withdraw their assets before their bank balance turned to zero.

 

Their daughter, watching them with dead fish eyes, felt like shooting them with tranquilizer guns… but anyway.

 

Knowing full well that the new millennium would arrive perfectly fine, there was only one thing I was looking forward to!

 

“Daughter! Where are you going? Aren’t you doing the countdown?”

 

“Haaaam~ I’m so sleepy. I’m going to bed~ No disturbing me!”

 

Ruthlessly shaking off the disappointed Seosing-a Family and Haseokram’s clinging, I entered my room and locked the door.

 

Then I gripped the object in my hand and began staring intensely at the clock.

 

‘4, 3, 2… 1…!’

 

【Congratulations! New Millennium!】

 

Fanfare!

 

Fanfare effects exploded before my eyes.

 

‘The new millennium really is different.’

 

【Grading the challenger’s final results…】

 

【Grading completed.】

 

【Challenger’s Final Report Card: 75/100 points – Progress】

 

【Overall Assessment: The mad End of the Century has ended. Starting from rock bottom, you’ve achieved ten-bagger returns and beyond, making you a super ant, an excellent investor by anyone’s standards. Successful investing requires the proper harmony of a scholar’s restraint and a beast’s heart, just like you.

 

However, you lack that decisive finishing blow. You’re missing something but haven’t realized it. For a regressor who has gained another chance, wouldn’t something beyond mere investment be necessary? It’s a new millennium. We support your progress.】

 

Huh?

 

The examiner’s message seemed somewhat suspicious, but I didn’t have time to worry about that.

 

【Final Grade: [Progress] Level Reward】

 

【’2 Invitations’ have been added to the challenger’s dream realm.】

 

【January 1, 2000, 00:00】

 

【Dream realm has been activated.】

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