Real teaching, but diary flow

To be precise, it was the summer after the second year of junior high school ended.

Honami Ichinose comes from a single-parent family; she lives with her mother and her younger sister, who is two years younger than her.

Although the family was quite poor, the mother still tried her best to meet their needs.

She and her sister were very obedient and sensible, trying their best to suppress their desires for all sorts of things, suppressing their materialism, controlling their aspirations, and not pursuing anything unnecessary. Whether it was new clothes or going out for fun, they would refuse anything that required money.

Things will get better.

But suppressing everything is not an option, nor is burying everything deep inside.

Knowing this, the mother chose to ask her younger sister about her wish around the time her birthday was approaching.

Even if it's just on their birthday, Mom will still want to make them happy.

So, the younger sister's wish was for a hair clip.

It wasn't exactly pretty; in fact, by her standards, it was rather ugly. But it was the same hair clip worn by her sister's favorite idol, Hoshino Ai.

Because it's the same style worn by idols, the price premium is very high.

However, since it's not particularly attractive, and considering the price, even if someone really likes it, few people would choose to buy it, so it's not so popular that it's impossible to buy.

So, once the goal was set, Mom began to force herself to do it.

That hair clip costs around ten thousand yen, which is a considerable sum.

But for Honami Ichinose's family, it was a number that would take a very long time to accumulate.

The mother could only force herself to find a way to get the money.

So Mom collapsed.

Lying on the hospital bed, he apologized to his sister again and again.

The one who should be cared for, the one who should be the patient, is the mother who apologizes.

The younger sister was the one who should have been understanding, the daughter, but she refused to apologize.

The suppressed emotions finally became unbearable, and the unfulfilled promise left the expectant younger sister utterly disappointed.

So she started cursing and revealed an unprecedentedly ugly side of herself.

But this is definitely not anyone's fault.

It wasn't the mother's fault for trying so hard, nor was it the younger sister's fault for being disappointed.

If there's anything wrong with them, perhaps it's that they didn't have money.

Ah, if only I had money.

That's what I thought back then.

If we had money, Mom wouldn't have to force herself; if we had money, my sister could get the gifts she wanted; if we had money, this wouldn't have happened.

"If only I had money." As if reciting his own thoughts, the young man standing beside her outside the hospital sighed softly.

...This was her first meeting with Toru Asakusa.

......

"Remembering or not remembering is a strange question." Faced with Ichinose Honami's question that came out of nowhere, Asakusa Tetsu sighed: "If you want to confirm whether I still remember the name 'Ichinose Honami', then I can tell you, yes, I remember."

"But if you want to do something else... then I can only repeat myself once more."

"What happened last year was just my 'self-satisfaction,' you don't need to worry about it or feel any burden because of it."

He felt that he had already made himself very clear.

But upon closer reflection, perhaps this is the true nature of Honami Ichinose.

"Even if you say that..." Ichinose Honami wanted to say something more, but just then, the bell rang for class and the teacher walked in from outside.

She had to go back to her seat.

“…Troublesome.” Asakusa Toru glanced at Ichinose Honami, who had returned to her seat, and shook his head.

As mentioned before, he was not surprised that he would be enrolled in Advanced Education.

It wasn't just because there was so much propaganda about advanced education everywhere, but more so because he had actually come into contact with first-year students who would be enrolling this year.

Honami Ichinose is one of them.

If I remember correctly, it happened last year.

As far as I can remember, I saw Honami Ichinose outside the hospital.

At that time, he was actually a little anxious.

Despite having grasped the trends of the times and clearly knowing how the future would likely unfold, they still struggled to convert their advantages into wealth and status.

Although he achieved a certain degree of financial freedom through light novels and didn't need to worry too much about making a living, his resume was still nothing compared to that of other transmigrators.

Let alone being able to lie drunk on a beauty's lap and wield power over the world when awake, even doing things that bring self-satisfaction requires careful consideration.

He met Honami Ichinose outside the hospital.

He was there not because he was sick.

He went to the hospital to pay for the services.

The hospital was visited to cover the medical expenses of a group of car accident victims who miraculously survived.

I went to the hospital to do something that would give me some self-satisfaction.

"..."

If asked what his life goal was, Asakusa Tetsu would probably have said "financial freedom" without hesitation before he time-traveled.

Money is very important; you can't do anything without it. With money, you can do anything.

Even after time travel, he didn't change his mind.

But after realizing that this world was not the world he had lived in before, but a hodgepodge of anime and manga, his thoughts suddenly changed.

Financial freedom alone is too boring.

Now that we've traveled through time, we should do things we couldn't do in the past.

For example, try to redeem a girl you could never touch through a screen, try to criticize an idiot you could never beat through a screen, or try to salvage something that seems irreversible in the story.

Just consider it a form of self-satisfaction.

Therefore, he needs money, lots and lots of money.

Without any special powers or talents, the only ability he, as an ordinary person, could obtain was the power of money.

If 10,000 isn't enough, then 100,000; if 100,000 isn't enough, then 1 million; if 1 million isn't enough, then 10 million.

There will always be a number that can sway others.

Of course, it doesn't mean that everything requires money.

Something like rescuing a silver-haired girl who has fallen off a cliff in the summer doesn't require much money; all that's lacking is the perfect timing.

......

Chapter 21 Cheap Labor at 416 Yen Per Hour

Only by going to the right place at the right time can an inevitable accident be prevented.

Frankly, this is actually more difficult than simply spending money.

But such situations are rare and difficult to achieve by chance.

More often than not, Asakusa Toru can only spend money.

It's like accidentally going too far when beating up some scumbags and having to pay compensation; it's like publicly promoting the scumbag deeds of some bad people and also having to spend money.

However, as expected, the place where the most money is spent is still the hospital.

When it comes to suffering, the word 'illness' would definitely occupy the largest portion of the discussion.

Congenital diseases, acquired symptoms, psychological issues, and incurable terminal illnesses.

There were so many patients that Asakusa Toru alone had no chance of saving them all.

So he never even considered helping all the patients.

He will only choose to help people he knows and can meet.

For example, a girl who suffers from aphasia due to cerebral infarction and can only spend the rest of her life in a hospital bed; a girl who is paralyzed due to an accident and can only lie in a hospital bed; a good person who was injured in a tunnel collapse but fell into a coma when the rescue team finally arrived.

Actually, there are both men and women, but since anime seems to prefer to portray suffering on beautiful girls, the proportion of girls is surprisingly high.

As Asakusa Tetsu himself said, it was ultimately nothing more than self-satisfaction.

There's not much difference between saving others and beating others; the ultimate purpose of pursuing money is to satisfy oneself.

That's why, the moment he got the diary, he completely abandoned his money-making plans and decisively chose to accept three years of intensive, closed-door training.

"Money power" is definitely no match for "superpower". Not to mention that the money he can earn is far from being called money power, even if it is, it is still not as good as a single hair of a cheat code.

Let's put aside the talk of money and superpowers for now and get back to the main topic.

Last year, he was troubled by money.

"If only I had money." That was the first thing that came to my mind.

If you have money, you don't need to be stingy with your donations. If you have money, you can be very generous and tell the hospital to use the best of everything, that money is no object.

If only I had money.

Although there were still over a million yen in his bank account, for Toru Asakusa, that was his truest feeling at the time.

Light novels are too slow to generate income.

He had to realize this clearly once again.

If he could trade stocks, if he could trade cryptocurrencies, if he could master the financial markets, then he probably wouldn't need to feel so anxious about money.

One could even say that it would have been better if he had dared to gamble all his assets on those crucial moments in his memory and waited for the right opportunity to take off.

But the truth is, in this chaotic world, nothing from the past can be used as a reference, and past understandings will be biased.

The major conglomerates that stand at the top of Japan are not merely background figures in the story.

Anyone who tries to use their intelligence advantage to sneak in and grab a piece of meat, or even a sip of soup, will only be coldly swept out of the arena.

The son-in-law of the Fengchuan Group is the best example of someone who has been publicly shamed.

His attempt to get rich overnight by going all in was a result he couldn't accept, ending up like a stray dog ​​being swept out of the game.

...I've talked too much about irrelevant things.

In short, with this mindset, what Asakusa Tetsu saw outside the hospital was Ichinose Honami.

He could tell at a glance what state the girl was in.

So, he spoke.

"You need money." This is not a question, but a statement.

"Eh?"

“Not much, but it’s a number you can’t easily obtain.” Ichinose Honami was stunned, but Asakusa Tetsu didn’t wait for her to come to her senses and continued, “Coincidentally, I just happen to want to spend money.”

"So, let's make a deal."

“Sell me your day,” he said.

At this point, Honami Ichinose finally understood the meaning behind his words, and just as she subconsciously wanted to refuse.

A stack of 'Fukuzawa Yukichi' bills, exuding an aura of immense wealth, blocked her way.

"..." She couldn't breathe.

One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand... one Fukuzawa Yukichi note is ten thousand yen, and this whole stack is...

No, no, no, how much money he has is his own business and has nothing to do with me.

Even if you want money, you shouldn't do it this way!

"Relax." Perhaps sensing her tension, Asakusa Tetsu smiled and took the money back from her: "I don't intend for you to call me 'Dad,' nor do I need you to do anything extra."