One Day, a Villain Fell into My Wardrobe – Chapter 135

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Apophis just clicked his tongue at Isquis, who was suddenly making a fuss about wanting to study. He had forgotten all his nagging in Asterra about learning letters and basic arithmetic for an uncertain future, and now Isquis was throwing a tantrum.

“Your character shot an arrow filled with a dragon, and with that one shot, the enemies all died?”

“Yeah!”

“So, you want to learn letters to play more of that game or whatever?”

“Yeah!”

“You clueless kid.”

Smack!

Apophis hit Isquis sharply on the head. Caught off guard by the sudden hand movement, Isquis couldn’t dodge and looked down at Apophis while holding his crown. His eyes were full of resentment.

“If you’re going to study, do it for a more constructive reason!”

“Construction? What’s that?”

“Ah, you stupid kid.”

Apophis pounded his chest. He was already overwhelmed trying to learn and study about this place alone, and the thought of having to teach this deadweight made him feel hopeless.

Apophis immediately sat Isquis down on the sofa. Then he stood up and began a speech. The audience was not only Isquis but also Shango, who was quietly eating an apple for dessert next to him.

“Listen carefully from now on. I’ll tell you what we need to do to survive in this world from now on.”

“…What is it?”

“…?”

Isquis and Shango showed curious reactions to Apophis’s proud attitude. With his hands on his hips, Apophis confidently stated the first part of his grand plan.

“First, we earn money.”

“Acting like you’ve never done that before…”

As soon as Apophis finished speaking, Shango turned his head and muttered with a face that said ‘of course’. This scene was quite familiar to Shango, as Apophis had always turned into a miser worse than any cranky old man when it came to money matters.

On the other hand, Isquis showed a more favorable reaction than Shango. He too now wanted to settle properly in this world.

“How do we earn it?”

“I’ll manage to secure the initial funds somehow. Don’t worry about that, but based on that, we’ll ‘invest’.”

“Where? Is there a good merchant guild?”

Although young, Isquis wasn’t completely ignorant about how the world worked. He also knew well that most of Apophis’s investments were successful, so he looked at him with a trustworthy face.

“No. I’ve found out that there’s something called ‘stocks’ here.”

“…Stocks?”

“Here, there’s something called a company, which is similar to a merchant guild, and the company’s capital and securities…”

“What’s a company?”

“Capital? Se-what?”

Apophis let out a huge sigh at the barrage of questions coming in one after another before he could finish a sentence. He seemed lost in thought for a moment, then smiled brightly and changed the direction of the conversation.

“Anyway, I’ll take care of earning money.”

Apophis, not being a noble, couldn’t enter the Asterra Academy like Set or Hadad, but he was always at the top of his class at the magic tower where he went to learn magic, and his research papers were great enough to go down in Asterra’s history.

Although his reputation from the magic tower disappeared when he chose to stand beside Set Gorgon, who was recorded as a demon, his smart brain didn’t disappear. While Set was quickly learning about the culture and history of this world, Apophis was studying economics and industry like crazy.

The tablet lent by Yeon Ji-ho was playing a significant role in that study. For Apophis, it was no different from a library.

“Now. After that? What does everyone think they’ll do when they have money?”

“I want to game! I want to go to the PC bang!”

“You be quiet.”

“…Good restaurants. To good restaurants…”

Although he didn’t have expectations for Shango, Apophis closed his eyes at the answer that came out exactly as expected. Of course. It was impossible for these stupid beasts to have any plans.

“Listen well. There are exactly three things we need to deal with first.”

“Deal with? Do we need to kill someone?”

“…Things to do, I mean things to do.”

Sometimes Apophis found his superior, Set, very admirable. Seeing him lead these stupid guys to the end without abandoning them, maybe his superior wasn’t a demon but an angel.

“First, we create identities.”

“Identities? Commoner identities?”

“From what I’ve found out, there’s no such thing as nobles or commoners here. Well, it seems to vary slightly by country, but it’s fair to say it’s almost nominal. So, we’re acquiring identities to live as ordinary citizens.”

Yeon Ji-ho often expressed concern while watching Apophis explore various fields of study every night, and one of them was precisely this identity issue. It seemed challenging to find a way to create identities for them.

But Apophis was confident. The reason Yeon Ji-ho said it was challenging was that he was too much of a law-abiding person.

There was one saying Apophis came to like the most since coming to this world, and it was ‘If things aren’t getting resolved, consider if there’s not enough money.’

“But it’s too difficult to create those identities in this country. The legal network is too tight. So we’ll leave this country.”

“What? You never mentioned that!”

“Keep listening. You don’t think we’ll come back? With Ji-ho pregnant, do you think His Excellency would allow that?”

Watching Set’s behavior recently, it seemed clear that he thought his life would end if he were separated from Yeon Ji-ho. Thinking of him, Apophis shook his head briefly.

“Anyway, after that, you guys will have things to do too.”

“Things to do? What?”

“We’ll establish a company under our names. Of course, His Excellency will be the representative. And I’ll be the assistant. Then, what about you two?”

Shango and Isquis, who were ordinary knights, couldn’t keep up with Apophis’s rapid development. As they just stared with their mouths shut, Apophis told them what to do.

“Shango, you’ll be the head of security first.”

“Security?”

“I mean a guard knight.”

“Ah.”

Shango nodded quickly. He was worried that he might be given a brain-using job like Apophis was doing, but of course, that wasn’t the case. As Shango smiled with satisfaction, Isquis next to him became anxious.

“Then what about me?!”

“What do you think?”

“Me?! Should I be a guard knight too?!”

“You stupid kid! You’re a student! You school meal kid!”

School meal?

Isquis’s eyes widened. Apophis, watching this, smiled mischievously. It wasn’t long ago that Apophis himself learned that the term ‘school meal’ could be used as a derogatory term.

Apophis picked up the tablet that had been on the side table until then. Then he moved his finger back and forth across the screen, and at some point, he started reading exactly what was written on the tablet.

“In Korea, an adult legally means from the age of 19.”

“19 years old?”

“Do you know how old you are in Korean age?”

“Me? …I don’t know?”

Isquis had never cared about his age in his life. He couldn’t remember the day he was born, so he had no energy to care about his age. Still, he knew that at least sixteen years had passed since he was born.

“You stupid kid. I thought so. You’re 16 years old this year.”

“Sixteen? Me?”

“Yeah. Let’s see, at 16, you’d be a first-year high school student in Korea.”

First-year high school student. Since Yang Seon-jae had also revealed that he was a first-year high school student, Isquis knew what that meant.

“So, you need to become an adult to be of any help or do anything, you dim-witted guy.”

Apophis said with a snort. Then Isquis closed his mouth and made a strange expression for some reason.

Apophis knew why he was making that face. Isquis had always lived a life far from ordinary, so he longed for an ordinary life.

That’s why Apophis deliberately decided to send Isquis to school. To buy him some time to find the life he had lost.

“Can’t I go to the PC bang instead of school?”

“…”

Maybe he had thought wrong.

“PC bang? PC bang?! Not studying as you should, but what, PC bang?!”

“Ah, what! I don’t want to study! Appo, are you an ajae?”

“…What?”

“You don’t even know what it means? It means old man.”

Isquis, who had learned a lot of bad words while gaming with Yang Seon-jae, looked at Apophis with a triumphant face. It was the moment a vein popped up on Apophis’s forehead.

“Forget about school!”