Chapter 15: Birthday (3)

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Author: Achoo Germs Original Source: SFACG Character Count: 2555 characters
Translator: Richie English Source: Re:Library Word Count: 1867 words
Editor(s): Richie

Kana and the one in charge of Eagle Jump talked for a little over a hour- No, actually, that’s an over exaggeration. Only two sentences were said– “Mobile game”, “It must be mobile game.1

‘Mobile game is the future’, this is what Kana firmly believed. How can a computer game allow someone to grind a game into the morning, lying on bed, playing while walking down the street, playing while sitting on the toilet bowl,,, if the player don’t play all day long, then how would they have the urge to spend money? If they don’t spend, then how do we make money2?

Eagle Jump have elaborated on the advantages of computer games, however, to the stubborn Kana, they still ended up compromising. If she wants mobile game, then let her be. Who is the one controlling the money in the Chitanda’s family purse?
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Eagle Jump is a company that rely on large-scale RPG game. Although they sometimes also released a few phone games, these games can be analogous to dessert after meal, not as the main meal. However, However, Kana at the moment have planned for five-part game, and each part’s budget is over one trillion yen. One can say that it is impossible for someone to give up getting such a big order3.

After confirming the direction of where the game will go, Kana left the meeting room. How about the price? Ako will naturally negotiate with the other party for that matter, so Kana didn’t have anything to worry about.

Walking into the banquet venue once again, Kana was stunned to see Eru was talking and laughing lively with a boy. They were sitting shoulder to shoulder, appears intimate, their cheeks also almost touching. In Kana, a very bitter feelings doesn’t stop bubbling. After a moment, a sinister curve formed on the corner of her mouth, and she walked over.

“Hi, Kana,” the ‘boy’ greet her with a smile as soon as he saw her coming over. Out of his mouth comes a very sweet and high-pitched voice of a girl came out, “Hey, would you put that fork down? That’s dangerous!”

“I thought someone has taken Eru’s hand, you are giving me a heart attack!”

The ‘boy’ is called Momokawa Wakana. A student of great ability in Tokyo University. Kana rarely has any friend, and this girl is surely not one of them. She wears a sweatshirt, a pair of jeans, skate shoes, and she has short hair that is dyed silver gray. She is wearing a baseball cap, and she pierced her ears with metal earrings. If we are talking about outside appearance alone, Momokawa Wakana looks a little stronger than usual boys, a small girl would inadvertently, intentionally or not, approach to her sides. She could casually whisper a few words at them, and their face would light up almost instantly.

“Everyone here is a girl, don’t worry!” she explained as she putting away the fork in Kana’s hand4.

“Of course I need to worry!” Kana haven’t let her go, “Lesbians such as you are the worst!”

“Hey hey,” Wakana rolled her eyes, “do you think you have the right to complain about that?”

Wakana is a lesbian. She has once confessed to Kana, but she refused. This happened when she was in elementary school. This is sufficient not only to conclude that she is a lesbian, but also a lolicon.

Wakana should be the most famous lesbian in all of Japan right now. She graduated Kamiyama high school, she is a math prodigy, and in her first year of high school, had received an invitation from the Tokyo University. However, she was then chasing after Kana, so she turned it down. In her second year, she published a paper where she proved the abc conjecture, shaking the world. Someone from Harvard University even came to personally invite her to study in the United States, and Wakana almost said yes.

However, Tokyo University felt so wrong, it is clear that they were the first one to invite her…

The university’s math department asked Wakana5 why won’t she come to Tokyo University. She answered very candidly: she is a lesbian, and so she will go overseas to find a girlfriend. The head of the department urged her to stay that he publicly announced his support for homosexuality thrice!

The most supreme of the old guards in the world of Japanese education is Tokyo University. Its influence is so powerful and know no bounds that its declaration of support rattled the government cabinet a little. “Wakana, the genius”, so she is known all across the country. She’s so famous that she was included in a lesbian magazine’s “Ranking of a girl you would like to date”.

Not a few people around them pay attention to Kana’s yelling that Eru finally remind Kana, “Onee-chan, sit down.”

Kana groaned, and then sat between them, forcefully cramming herself in. Having in contact with Kana for a split second, Wakana unnaturally stiffen up. She also started to move reservedly, as if trying to hide something, Wakana took out a box of cigarettes from her pocket.

Kana puckered her brows, “Are you still smoking? I thought you gave it up.”

“Little by little. Nowadays, I only smoke two sticks a day.”

“Then put yourself away from me, it’s deadly smelly.”

“I have not even lit it up yet,” Wakana mumbled to herself disgruntling, but she put the cigarette back in.

“Why have you come here?” Kana asked, “Do you want some money again?”

Shortly after Wakana was born, her mother ran away with her lover. Her father is a heavy drinker, and the condition inside her house is obviously not well. If Kana haven’t provided financial aid, she could have dropped out of school. Although that’s all in the past…

“I’m currently in a scholarship, and my living expenses is also included, fundamentally, you don’t need to give me money anymore. Can’t I just come to participate in her birthday?”

“Of course you can’t!” Kana shielded Eru, as if protecting her, “What are you, a damned lesbian, want to do to her!”

“How are you any different from a lesbian!” Wakana retorted.

Eru couldn’t keep watching her sister’s defensive attitude any longer, “Onee-chan, Wakana-Oneechan specifically come to look for you.”

“Look for me? You aren’t in need for money, why are you looking for me?” Kana tilted her head.

“To give you money,” Wakana put out a folder, its content mysterious.

Kana warily open the folder, and inside is a thesis titled “Bitcoin: The One of Its Kind Peer-to-Peer Digital Money System”.

She lightly gasped, although it also sounded like a sigh. Bitcoin. It is one of the things that her past self was the most familiar with.

Bitcoin hasn’t show up in this world, Kana once mentioned to Wakana about the concept of blockchain technology. She didn’t expect that Wakana would take this to heart and then really starting researching Bitcoin.

“How about it? You said yourself that this might be a way to riches. Do you want to invest?” Wakana trying to entice Kana.

“So you really came to me to look for money, didn’t you?” Kana puckered up her eyebrow.

Bitcoin is a really complicated system, mathematics are only the most bottom bedrock of it. If Wakana really wanted to get results, then she would need a few billion yet, or it would be impossible. Scholarship money is only enough for day-to-day cost of living, Wakana doesn’t even know a thing about financing. She can only think of one person who is capable and also have the money. The one who once agreed to pay for the education, Kana.

“Well, if it succeeded, then you can also earn some profit…” Wakana awkwardly evaded her interrogating eyes. Her face is still not as thick as Ako’s face6.

Kana thought for a moment, and then say, “You need to know, even though the Chitanda family is rich, but I maybe doesn’t have many connections. I’m also merely a high school student, getting enough pocket money to pay for your tuition is not a big problem.7Right now, you are asking for billions in investment, don’t you think it is too offhand to come to me?”

Wakana laughed, she had expected this reply herself.

Kana looked at her expression, and figured that she hadn’t thought about this thoroughly. She pucker her eyebrow, and then continued, “Moreover, do you really understand the relevant laws? Bitcoin is a currency, what you are doing right now is the same as what various other central banks are doing; issuing money. If Bitcoin starting to flow, and then it broke Japanese law, are you not worried about being arrested for defrauding? We are talking abut large sum of money, you might be spending your late years in prison.

“Not to mention, do you know that Bitcoin can potentially wield a really big influence? This is one thing that is different from money issued by the banking system. If you have infringed onto a big banker’s interest, you could have been killed on the street, you know? This is also a currency without a government oversight, a system without supervision, it might be used in drug trade, weapon smuggling, human trafficking. Did you think over this?”

Following Kana’s each item, Wakana’s expression gradually turn pale. She started sweating for the brow. Although she is smart, she still hasn’t learn about the danger of the world.

She looked at the thesis inside the envelop, and she started to quiver internally.

“Exactly,” Kana suddenly said, “Momokawa-san, do you know any publisher?”

Wakana flinched, said “I know two of them……”

Kana then said, “I have a part of novel, please help me connect me to a publisher and get it published. Set the royalty to be sent directly to your bank account. Regard it as my investment.”

Wakana’s mouth slightly open agape, she couldn’t believe what she just heard, “You, didn’t you say…”

“What are you excited about?” Kana curled her lip, “I’m just keeping my money temporarily in your account. If law enforcement ever investigated it, then I will say that it is for your personal use.”

Wakana lowered her head, breath once from her nose, breath twice, and then after a while, lift her face and said as she laugh, “Alright.”



Footnotes:

  1. Mobile game in here is referring specifically to phones. I’m not sure if you could call PS Vita or Switch games to be mobile game.
  2. Please just let such a predatory game like this die, okay?
  3. Oh okay, no wonder Kana need the players to play in the night on the bed into the morning, on the way to school, in class, in the toilet, in lunch, in dinner… wait, I think half of them is my word.
  4. Richie: I honestly didn’t realize that Kana has yandere tendency. Did you guys notice?
  5. Richie I wish her name is Wakaba or something. A typo would make a big mistake that no one would notice.
  6. I assume that she is talking about the makeup, although it is a pretty random thing to say out of the blue.
  7. Richie: Man, rich girl with pocket money that can pay for someone’s high school tuition monthly.

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