If I Don’t Earn 1 Trillion Won, My Regression Ends - Chapter 66

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Episode 66

The visiting cycle for Dream Garden disease was every two weeks.

I could enter once every 15 days, and I thought I’d meet them again right after my first visit, but I kept coming up empty-handed.

[Eagle Courier: I knew the time difference would eventually become a problem. We all live in different places. Plus, our visiting cycles would be different too.]

[Captain Raccoon: But last time we all met together at once?! Why did it suddenly become so difficult?]

[Eagle Courier: That was… perhaps Madam’s service to accommodate us beginners? She might have specially adjusted it just once with magic for the first time…]

[Captain Raccoon: Madam!! Why give it and then take it away! How petty!]

[Grass Leaf Girl: …]

No. I don’t have that kind of ability…!

‘Ugh, so unfair…!’

But the mysterious Madam could only smile serenely…

[Lizard Tycoon: So noisy! What’s the problem? Eagle and I kept meeting! Just come in faster!]

[Captain Raccoon: You two must have similar time zones! If it weren’t for the note Eagle left, I wouldn’t have even come in today! Just today I waited for hours! My back feels like it’s going to break from sleeping so much!]

‘Me too, me too!’

Well done, raccoon!

That was exactly around 3 PM Korean time.

Do you Westerners know how it feels for a small Asian person to be lying around like a jobless person in broad daylight?

This is Hell Joseon where there’s no siesta culture.

Because Eagle only wrote the date and not the time in the note, this Korean returnee who had never slacked off after receiving the billionaire mission felt like fainting from waiting all day.

[Eagle Courier: Now~ don’t fight. Let’s do this. Let’s set specific dates and times to meet regularly.]

[Eagle Courier: To adjust the cycle, the 1st and 15th of each month would be clean.]

[Lizard Tycoon: No problem]

[Captain Raccoon: Okay. Then what about the time? Based on where?]

[Eagle Courier: Hmm.]

[Eagle Courier: How about simply Pacific Standard Time?]

[Grass Leaf Girl: You’re American]

[Eagle Courier: …]

Caught you, you bastard…!

Simply? How cunning!

When everyone was revealing nationalities, you alone acted mysterious, only saying you spoke English and hiding it, but you’re sneakily adjusting to your own time zone!

When I couldn’t hold back and exposed him, the European (Pacific Standard Time +9 hours) who almost got caught off guard was extremely furious.

[Captain Raccoon: You greedy and despicable American!!!]

[Eagle Courier: Relax, buddy. Calm down…]

But such problems inevitably flow toward majority rule.

With an American, Mexican, German, and secret Korean (status: mistaken) gathered, the European had no power.

Eventually we agreed to meet on the 1st and 15th of each month at 8 PM Pacific Standard Time.

That would be 8 PM US West Coast, 10 PM Mexico, 5 AM Germany, 1 PM Korea.

It was a very harsh result for one particular person, but I stayed silent. After all, Madam who uses ‘Hangul’ isn’t an Earthling…

Anyway, after deciding that, today was the first meeting.

The time until now was a period for everyone to adjust their cycles.

[Eagle Courier: Lizard seems to be absent today?]

[Captain Raccoon: Right? What’s up? That guy is super obsessed with the garden. He’s not someone who wouldn’t come in.]

Residency rights had already been granted when we last met.

Since we became neighbors, shouldn’t there be houses?

Rather than just sitting around chatting, we decided to build houses together, but even after building raccoon’s house and moving to eagle’s building site, lizard hadn’t appeared.

Missing the first meeting? What an unbelievable Mexican~.

[Captain Raccoon: The time was adjusted most to suit him too. No conscience.]

[Eagle Courier: Something must have happened. Hmm. Did he die?]

[CaptainRaccoon: Huh? Haha just kidding~]

[Captain Raccoon: …It is a joke, right?]

[Eagle Courier: Didn’t big news break in Mexico recently? The Tijuana Cartel tortured and killed investigators. Since then, the Mexican Mafia side has been unsettling. Though I wonder when it wasn’t.]

[Captain Raccoon: Don’t tell me you were serious about that drug lord stuff with lizard?]

[Eagle Courier: That was a joke.]

[Captain Raccoon: Phew~ Right? You scared me.]

[Eagle Courier: But he’s definitely involved in dangerous work. That look in his eyes when he first came to the garden, you remember it too, don’t you raccoon?]

[Captain Raccoon: …]

[Grass Leaf Girl: …]

…Excuse me, test tube sister? Come out here.

What exactly did you put in my precious garden?!

Just the day before yesterday I was peacefully filming The Glass Mask with Namihee, but in my dreams I’m hearing about Mexican Mafia?

Does a person’s environment need to change this dynamically?

‘Mom… I’m scared… sob!’

[CaptainRaccoon: Hey, hey! Don’t jump to conclusions~. You never know. Maybe they’re not coming today because they don’t want to pay rent? haha]

[Grass Leaf Girl: Son of a bitch! So what if he’s mafia?!?!]

[Captain Raccoon: …]

[Eagle Courier: …]

The animals hesitated and looked at me.

Ahem. I cleared my throat and continued digging.

Madam Grass Leaf Girl is just slightly! sensitive about money matters~.

[Eagle Courier: Let’s stop talking about the absent person and talk about something else.]

[Captain Raccoon: What should we talk about?]

[Eagle Courier: About each other. Now we know where we live and our ages… what else can we reveal without directly exposing our identities? Hmm. Like the item among recent purchases that was hardest to obtain?]

Eagle was very interested in the garden’s members.

I thought raccoon would be more like that personality-wise, but no. It was always eagle who asked questions trying to deduce identities.

[Eagle Courier: Should I go first?]

[Eagle Courier: For me… it would be an ’82 Petrus Magnum. I needed it by the box for a party, but it took some time because supplies with guaranteed storage conditions ran out.]

[Captain Raccoon: Oh. What do I have? Hmm~]

[Captain Raccoon: Ah! Yacht mooring rights? I have to go to Monaco next month but couldn’t secure a spot, so it was difficult. Eventually a friend got it for me- no wait. This isn’t an item, is it?]

[Eagle Courier: Let’s count it as an item. You already answered.]

The animals looked at me. Eyes that said it’s your turn.

“…”

I seriously pondered.

About how to elegantly package the Pokemon sticker album 151st Mew…

‘Ugh, this was so damn hard to get…!’

What should I say to make it sound plausible?

A seal of the chosen ones? A blessing of probability? A link in human civilization that would last the next 20 years?

My thought circuits spun frantically, but even I could tell it was all bullshit…

This won’t work.

I let my eyes grow sadly dim.

It meant that this body, not being from Earth, didn’t know well, so please make your own assumptions. Sure enough, the excessively clever eagle who stumbled over nothing eagerly took the bait.

[Eagle Courier: Is something wrong, Madam?]

[Eagle Courier: Actually, I’ve been worried since earlier. Usually Madam is always generous, but today you seem to be in a bad mood. If there’s anything we can help with, we’ll help. Please tell us.]

[Captain Raccoon: That’s right, Madam! Come on, tell us!]

[Grass Leaf Girl: …]

‘What should I do… Mysticism is so damn hard, guys…’

Having almost compromised my mystique earlier when I got emotional about the rent dodger, I couldn’t make a mistake twice. I began wracking my brain for problems.

Ah! That’s right! There is one thing.

[Grass Leaf Girl: You’re all successful people in society, right?]

[Eagle Courier: Pardon?]

[Eagle Courier: In some ways, yes. I suppose that would be the case?]

[Grass Leaf Girl: Does it suit you?]

No, that’s not it.

[Grass Leaf Girl: I mean… did you have confidence in your profession from the beginning? When did you start thinking that you could make this work your lifelong career?]

[Eagle Courier: Well. It was so long ago.]

[Captain Raccoon: Do people usually think about that? Don’t you just figure it out as you go?]

[Eagle Courier: That’s a minority case. Most people choose their careers based on circumstances rather than their own will. I was the same way.]

[Eagle Courier: But… hmm. As you do it, there definitely comes a moment when you think, ‘I could do this for life.’ That’s what we call being suited for it, right?]

[Grass Leaf Girl: When?]

[Eagle Courier: When you forget yourself.]

It was a vague statement.

When we looked puzzled, the eagle added an explanation.

[Eagle Courier: Food? Sleep? Family? Friends? Everything gets pushed to second priority. You don’t know how time passes, yourself and your surroundings don’t matter, and there are times when you run toward only one moment – the sense of achievement from successfully completing this task.]

[Eagle Courier: It’s a moment when you forget that you are yourself, while simultaneously perceiving yourself as a person more intensely than ever before.]

[Eagle Courier: And finally, the sense of achievement that comes when you accomplish it and-]

[Captain Raccoon: Catharsis.]

[Eagle Courier: Thrill.]

The two spoke different words, but their meaning was the same.

The raccoon had a look of perfect understanding.

In their exchanged glances, I could glimpse a sense of kinship. Even though their fields were different, it was an emotion shared only among those who had pushed themselves to the extreme and climbed to the top.

I don’t know.

So is this feeling I’m having now simple envy? Or-

[Eagle Courier: Anyway, Madam.]

Lost in thought, I suddenly looked up.

The eagle was looking at me. With moved eyes as if understanding everything- huh? Moved?

[Eagle Courier: You work hard to understand humans.]

[Eagle Courier: Madam is truly a good person.]

[Grass Leaf Girl: …]

♧

And on May 6th, 2000.

Yewon’s regular theater festival began.

The venue was the Main Theater of the Arts Center. In the future, it would be called the Arko Arts Theater, the heart of Daehak-ro.

The prepared seats totaled 700.

Naturally, it was sold out.

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