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She saw Luo Zhen and the hut, her face showing confusion:
"Where is this place?"
Soon, information about the commission hut appeared in her mind. This was the mechanism of the commission hut, so that Luo Zhen wouldn't have to spend time explaining to each new person, and they might not even believe it.
"Located in the gap between different dimensions, a place where people can realize their dreams..."
Luo Zhen immediately recognized this classic image as Toyokawa Shoko, who possesses two forms: soft and cuddly, and breathy. She is weak when facing the strong and strong when facing the weak, and she is a god-man who wants to become a god.
He smiled at Toyokawa Shoko: "Welcome to the Request Cabin. As long as the payment is sufficient, I will grant you any wish."
"Any wishes?"
Toyokawa Shoko was somewhat tempted, but having worked for so long and been repeatedly given empty promises by her boss, she keenly noticed that she needed sufficient compensation.
Now that she has nothing, what price can she afford to pay?
She tentatively asked, "Is there any way for me to become rich quickly?"
[Toyokawa Shoko had had enough of working as a customer service representative after school, delivering newspapers on weekends, and working as a cleaning lady. Lying in her cramped rented room filled with beer cans, she often dreamed of the luxurious life of the Toyokawa family and their Maybach in the dead of night.]
She doesn't plan to go back to the Toyokawa family, but she wants to become rich.
[Request: Toyokawa Shoko wants to become rich, no longer need to work, and simply enjoy life.]
[Rewards for the quest: 100 quest crystals, one random dragon enhancement]
[Confession Crystal: The essence condensed from the wishes of the client, which can be used to enhance one's own abilities]
Looks good. If I have enough commission crystals, can I enhance my projection magic to the level of imaginary materialization?
Luo Zhen raised an eyebrow, opened the commission system to check, and found that upgrading the already powerful projection magic to the next stage would require 10,000 commission crystals.
It seems this will require a lot of hard work, he said.
"For ordinary people, getting rich quickly is still quite difficult, but luckily, you've met me."
Luo Zhen skillfully projected a black hood and a rocket launcher onto the table, and said to the dumbfounded Toyokawa Shoko:
"Please tell me the address of your bank."
Toyokawa Shoko was horrified: "Are you planning to make me rich by robbing a bank?! That's illegal and a crime!"
Luo Zhen said, "Don't worry, you don't need to lift a finger. My strength is enough to prevent anyone from getting hurt. Most importantly, no one will know about this. I can make everyone in the bank, from employees to leaders, forget about it."
"If you don't get caught, it's not a crime."
Shoko Toyokawa admits that she was tempted for a moment, but her strong sense of pride prevented her from accepting such a means of getting rich overnight.
If she really wanted to abandon her self-respect, she could just go back to the Toyokawa family. There was no need for her to break the law or commit crimes. Besides, the Toyokawa family's assets were far more substantial than the savings in just one or two banks.
"Isn't there a way to get rich without breaking the law?"
"Wealth lies in strategy, not in physical labor; profit lies in circumstances, not in hard work."
Luo Zhen said something that Toyokawa Shoko only half understood, and explained,
"Anyway, relying on normal work is definitely not going to work. It seems you don't accept robbing the rich to help the poor, or going to the alleys to find thugs as ATMs."
"How about this, do you have any money on you? Paper money or coins are fine, give it to me."
Shoko Toyokawa thought for a moment, then took out a 100-yen coin and gave it to him. Ryouma rubbed it for a moment, projecting an identical coin onto his mind, followed by a second, a third...
Soon, the coins piled up like a mountain, covering the entire table, and Toyokawa Shoko looked troubled.
"Are you trying to make counterfeit money?"
"First of all, this is real money. I projected it based on real money, so it's guaranteed to be authentic. Secondly, your thinking is a bit too limited."
Luo Zhen picked up a coin and deftly flipped it between his fingers.
"What if you exchanged the coins for gold?"
Toyokawa Shoko's eyes lit up. If projected money might seem fake, then gold was 100% genuine.
However, the word "projection"...
"Can the gold you project exist forever?"
"It can exist for a long time, but it's impossible for it to exist forever."
Toyokawa Shoko shook her head regretfully: "Wouldn't that be cheating the people who buy gold?"
If she hadn't been so persistent, she would have gone back to the Toyokawa family long ago.
Luo Zhen didn't take it to heart:
“It would be a bit difficult for anyone else, but if it’s you, Toyokawa Shoko, there’s a shortcut.”
Toyokawa Shoko frowned: "Do you know who I am?"
Luo Zhen spread his hands: "Since it's about fulfilling the various wishes of people from different worlds, it's normal to have some special abilities, right?"
Toyokawa Shoko accepted this explanation. The information in her mind was directly injected into her. The way she got here was by walking directly into the street, which is something no normal person could do. It was clearly a supernatural phenomenon.
Seeing that she was about to say something, Luo Zhen said, "Don't worry, the solution I'm going to give you will definitely be acceptable to you, but it will be very unexpected."
He and Toyokawa Shoko passed through the same gate she had come from and appeared on the bustling street:
"Let's go to where you live."
Go and blast your dad's gold coins.
Volume 1: Chapter 003 - Auspiciousness Descends from Heaven, Angry and Ferocious
Standing at the door of her rented room, Toyokawa Shoko lacked the courage to step inside.
This cheap rental was filled with empty beer cans and her drunken father who would throw empty cans at her.
She didn't understand what this had to do with making money; she thought Luo Zhen would let her return to the Toyokawa family to solve their financial problems.
Toyokawa Shoko was completely unwilling to let outsiders see this scene. At this moment, she desperately wished that her father would die on the spot, so that she could naturally ignore everything around her and only focus on grieving.
Luo Zhen projected a rocket launcher and handed it to Toyokawa Shoko, encouraging her, "Don't worry, no matter what happens, I will stand by your side."
"Don't make it sound like I'm about to kill my father!"
Toyokawa Shoko returned the rocket launcher, saying, "Ultimately, what does this have to do with making money?"
"Push open this door, and you'll soon find out."
Luo Zhen couldn't help but laugh when he thought about what was going to happen later.
Toyokawa Shoko took a deep breath. It's alright. It's just that Feiwu's father has been exposed to the public. The weak me of the past is dead!
I can now easily overcome this sense of shame!
She pushed open the door, and a tipsy Toyokawa Kiyoko looked up at her: "Why are there two Xiangzi? Wait a minute—"
He asked Luo Zhen with a puzzled look, "Who are you?"
"Who I am is not important. What is important is that Xiangzi is broke and can't even afford the tuition for Yuezhi Forest. He has to transfer to a commoner's school and has to work three jobs to cover rent and daily expenses."
"Old Deng, it's time to collect some gold coins."
Toyokawa Shoko was taken aback. Why did you tell him about my predicament?
Toyokawa Kiyoko was even more surprised: "Xiao Xiang, aren't you the heir of the Toyokawa family? How come you have no money!"
"Of course it's because you fell out with Old Man Toyokawa and he even planned to help you pay off your debt of 16.8 billion yen."
"You should have said you didn't have money earlier. I do have money."
Toyokawa Kiyoko staggered to his feet, pulled a thick black gold card from his pocket, and stuffed it into Toyokawa Shoko's hand.
"And you don't need to pay back the 16.8 billion either. I'm not so destitute that I need my daughter to help me pay off my debts. I've worked for the Toyokawa family for so many years and saved up quite a bit of money. 16.8 billion is nothing."
Toyokawa Shoko kept her head down, making it impossible to read her expression: "So, you've always had money?"
Kiyoshi Toyokawa gestured to the beer cans scattered on the ground: "Where do you think the money for buying beer came from?"
Toyokawa Shoko clenched her fists, the heavy black gold card like dough, which she squeezed into a ball in anger.
"Then what does all that I've done count for?!"
She gave up the generous conditions of the Toyokawa family and chose to leave her father. Penniless, she was forced to transfer schools from Tsukimori, where she worked part-time while attending school and also took care of the band.
When she finally got home after everything was taken care of, she was still greeted by beer bottles scattered all over the floor and a rented room that needed cleaning.
She recalled the day CRYCHIC disbanded. She was on her way to the recording studio when she received a call from the police station, asking her to pick up her father, who was dead drunk.
From that moment on, she realized that she probably couldn't balance the band and her life, so she went to the recording studio in the pouring rain and announced the disbandment of CRYCHIC.
It was raining heavily that day, and she cried bitterly in the rain, knowing that she could never go back to the past.
She still can't forget that feeling of powerlessness and pain, but now her father is telling her that all the price she has paid so far has been meaningless.
The intense tinnitus drowned out all external sounds, and everything in Toyokawa Shoko's vision began to distort violently. She felt as if her heart was being gripped by an invisible, burning giant claw, and with each beat, it pumped out blood as hot as magma.
Faced with the angry Toyokawa Shoko, Toyokawa Kiyoko casually remarked:
"No one asked you to do that, and I've already said I don't need your help."
These words became the final straw that broke her back. Toyokawa Shoko roared like a lion, her golden eyes flashing with a terrifying light:
"You bastard!"
Luo Zhen heard Toyokawa Shoko chant an unfamiliar yet majestic incantation. A magical substance gathered in the air and exploded at an extremely fast speed. He quickly projected it:
[Seven Rings Covering the Blazing Sky]!
That was the shield of Ajax, the hero used in the Trojan War. It had seven petals, seven layers of defense, which protected him firmly.
The next moment, a blinding white light burst forth, and it was as if a sun had risen in the cramped rented room.
Luo Zhen heard Toyokawa Kiyoshi's screams, but he himself did not feel any impact, and the projected Noble Phantasm was completely unharmed.
When the bright light dissipated, Luo Zhen also deactivated the projection of the defensive artifact and saw a bewildered Toyokawa Shoko, as well as Toyokawa Kiyoko, who was rolling on the ground covering his eyes.
"How is this going?"
Toyokawa Shoko looked at Luo Zhen for help, and Luo Zhen stroked his chin: "It seems like you've awakened the power in your bloodline."
Moreover, looking at those golden eyes, which seemed cast in gold and possessed an inexplicable majesty, Luo Zhen felt a strong sense of déjà vu regarding this power.
"Has your strength increased?"