Chapter 769 – #Sidestory01_Twins And The Contest (2)
#Special Feature 2
1.
“Perfect timing.”
“You’re thinking the same thing as me, right, Unnie?”
“Of course, Odette.”
“It’s almost Assistant’s birthday.”
A birthday gift for their beloved partner, Shin Siwoo.
This was the primary reason the twins decided to participate in the Masterpiece Contest.
Of course, as mentioned earlier, Count Jemernai was a ridiculously wealthy man.
The Count, who cherished Odile and Odette like gold, would never be stingy with the twins. They had lived such a lavish allowance life that they had never properly looked at the price of anything they bought. Even if they broke open their piggy banks where they had been saving money, the twins could buy a decent house in Tarot Town. So, a birthday gift wasn’t much of a burden for them.
However.
Is a gift good just because it costs a lot?
No, it is not.
“Until now, whenever we’ve given Assistant something, we’ve always used our allowance. This time, we’re going to earn the money ourselves and give him a gift.”
That’s right.
The husband who sold his watch for his wife’s comb on Christmas, and the wife who sold her hair for her husband’s watch strap.
Even though their gifts were ultimately useless, they were still considered heartwarming stories because the gifts contained sincerity, thoughts of their loved one, in other words, love.
“If we work hard and buy him a gift…”
“Assistant will be overjoyed, right?”
“Yeah, yeah.”
And so, they first pick up their pens.
Web novels are generally written by typing, but the twins were more comfortable with quills and paper.
“50 million won should be enough, right, Unnie?”
“Yeah, yeah, that should be enough.”
The twins’ goal was the grand prize of 50 million won.
It would be shameful for the noble apprentice witches of the Jemernai family not to win first place when they were serious.
“What would be a good gift?”
“Hmm… I don’t know? Let’s make a list first.”
And so, the twins spent the whole night making a list of gifts for Assistant without writing a single word.
2.
Before Sharon’s lecture began.
Odile and Odette were already in the lecture hall, sitting down.
Of course, it was to write a novel to participate in the contest.
If their teacher found out that Odile and Odette, still apprentice witches, had started writing an erotic novel, they didn’t know what she would do.
Also, in the lecture hall, they wouldn’t get caught up in the chatter of their dedicated maids, ‘Pechya Lena Masha Vera,’ and they could escape the surveillance of the terrifying Head Maid Galina.
It seemed like the best workspace since Sharon Unnie wouldn’t really care even if she found out.
However, despite this great environment, their writing wasn’t progressing much.
To be more precise, they hadn’t even started a single word.
“Hee-eum… It’s difficult.”
“Hee-eum… It’s hard.”
The twins, wearing their round glasses, each had a fountain pen resting on their philtrums as they stared at the blank paper.
They didn’t know what to write.
They had seen several Gehenna-style erotic novels.
The maids had secretly lent them to the twins.
But when they became the writers themselves, it felt different.
What kind of material to use, what kind of characters to introduce, where the setting should be, and so on.
Too many thoughts were coming to them at once, making their thoughts feel tangled.
“Odette, this won’t do. At this rate, we won’t be able to write a single piece.”
“Ugh, I didn’t know the pain of creation was this agonizing…”
“Should we just give up…?”
They had even given up their exciting web surfing to focus on brainstorming, but there were no results.
Just as they were squirming in their seats.
“Kids, let’s start class.”
The lecture hall door opened softly, and someone came in.
It was Sharon Evergreen, hired by Count Jemernai to teach the twins elemental magic.
“Hello. Hic!”
“Hello. Ho!”
After habitually bowing their heads in greeting, the twins let out strange screams as they took in Sharon’s appearance.
“Sha, Sharon Unnie! What’s wrong?”
“Is something the matter?”
“Huh? What do you mean, is something the matter?”
Sharon Unnie was one of Assistant’s lovers.
With her deep green hair reminiscent of a forest fairy and her refreshing, sparkling mint-colored eyes.
A bewitching woman who seduced Assistant with her monstrous E-cup breasts.
In other words, she was a powerful rival to the twins.
But regardless of whether she was a rival or not, Sharon’s appearance seemed precarious enough to make them forget such thoughts.
Her skin was dull, her hair had turned yellowish like weeds.
Her eyes were hazy, and as soon as she entered the lecture hall, a gust of alcohol breath swept through.
“Isn’t that a liquor bottle?”
“Huh? Oh, I brought it.”
She was even dangling a liquor bottle in her hand.
“Sorry, kids, let’s have self-study today.”
“……”
“……”
Odile and Odette looked at each other with wide eyes.
Sharon Unnie’s lectures were known to be even stricter than Professor Amelia’s.
For her, who had to fill that huge blackboard three times with writing before putting down the chalk, to declare self-study.
“Sharon Unnie. What’s going on?”
“No, it’s really nothing.”
Sharon waved her hand at the twins as they cautiously approached.
Did she break up with Assistant or something?
She looked so broken that such thoughts came to mind.
With no other choice, the twins quietly sat down.
Since it had come to this, they could just brainstorm more for their novel, but…
The dark cloud that was forming in the corner of the lecture hall where Sharon was sitting was bothering them.
Moreover, she was leaning against the window frame, taking swigs from her bottle, and muttering non-stop. When they listened closely, they heard words like ‘coin,’ ‘they said it was stable,’ ‘why does this only happen to me.’
That’s right.
Sharon, who had caused a rebellion of the sprouts and was chased out to the mortal realm with a huge debt.
She had paid off her debt by tutoring the twins, and she had some money saved up, so she had secretly become greedy.
It was an old saying that many small things make a mountain.
If you were a witch with some assets, you would invest.
If she didn’t work hard to make her money grow now that she had some spare cash, she would have to live a tearful life of earning money one day and using it for research the next.
Therefore, as soon as the internet was available in Gehenna, Sharon turned on the coin exchange that she had long forgotten.
The stock market was down due to reasons like war and interest rate hikes.
The coins that the coin traders had falsely claimed were safe assets were also down.
Among them, there was one coin that caught her eye…
She didn’t know the detailed principles, but it was a coin that had safety measures in place to guarantee a minimum value through various methods.
She wouldn’t have to worry about getting ripped off like she had in the past.
‘Wow, wow, wow… How much is this?’
For the first three days, she made so much profit that she regretted not knowing about this sweet honey pot sooner.
She felt like a fool for having been hunting homunculi to pay off her debt.
Put money in, make money, put the money you made in, make more money.
It was a real money duplication bug.
‘Ah… If only I had a little more capital…’
In this situation, Sharon felt a little regretful.
‘If only I had 1 or 2 billion, not 100 or 200 million…’
And she touched something she shouldn’t have.
That was futures trading, not spot trading.
Futures trading allows you to increase your investment capital through a mechanism called leverage.
For example, if your original investment was 1 million won and the leverage was 10x, it would have the effect of investing 10 million won.
‘I should have gone 100x from the start…’
To soothe her regret, she bet all her spare money on long.
Even so, she thought 100x was too greedy, so she only went for 50x.
Sharon, who went to sleep without setting a proper loss cut, was greeted by her investment capital being liquidated in just three hours.
“Ah… My, my stomach is twisting…”
That was how she had saved up her money.
Why didn’t the international community properly regulate the cryptocurrency market, which was no different from a gambling den?
Was the god of bankruptcy attached to her as a constellation?
After getting thoroughly screwed, Sharon, filled with all sorts of thoughts, was drinking from her bottle when the twins cautiously approached her.
“Sharon Unnie. We didn’t mean to eavesdrop, but did you lose money on coins?”
“Huh? You guys know about it too?”
She was momentarily distracted from her heartache over the loss.
It was unexpected that Odile and Odette, who had only been in Gehenna, knew about coins.
“Yes, we don’t know much about it though.”
“We’ve heard our teacher talking about it.”
Only then did Sharon feel a pang of regret.
She had really been a fool.
Count Jemernai, a true rich man and investment genius who should be on the cover of Time magazine, was right next to her…
If she had at least asked for some advice through the twins, this catastrophe wouldn’t have happened…
“Does the Count do it too?”
“We heard that our teacher runs something like an exchange.”
“Yes, that’s right. He just makes money from fees.”
“……”
Sharon was starting to resent the twins for no reason.
“Unnie, do you have any thoughts on trying to make up for the loss?”
“Loss?”
“Yes, we recently found out about something really good.”
Sharon looked at the smartphones that the twins were holding out.
“Masterpiece Contest? An erotic novel… is it something like that?”
She scrolled through it and seemed to have grasped the situation quickly.
The twins clenched their fists, quietly celebrating that their expectations had not been wrong.
It wasn’t like they had brought Sharon Unnie in as an assistant without any thought.
Novelpia was a Korean site.
And Sharon Unnie was a 10-year veteran in Korea.
They hadn’t even figured out where to start, so if they had her help, they could get some assistance.
“50 million won…? With this…”
She could at least make up for some of her losses.
“Glug, glug, glug.”
Sharon finished the rest of her bottle and said in a determined tone.
“Okay, let’s do it.”
