39 Is This the Best Era? (1/2)
Chapter 39: Is This the Best Era?
Translator: Nyoi_Bo_StudioEditor: Tennesh
Zhang Zian helplessly told the smug cat, ”As I said, the era now is different from the past. If you want something, you have to buy it or grab it with violence. But being respectable like you, you obviously cannot grab, so the only option left is to buy.” He didn’t forget to flatter a bit near the end.
Maneki-Neko was satisfied. ”What you said is totally right. A respectable being like me, how could I grab normal beings’ belongings? You should be the one to buy.”
”Cannot grab normal beings’ belongings? Bullshit. Who asked me to grab the diamond ring and let me tumble,” Zhang Zian thought.
”But I don’t have money. I can’t afford it,” he repeated.
”Money? You mean gold?” it asked, tilting its head.
”No. Gold counts, of course, but yuan is the currency in circulation,” Zhang Zian explained.
”Yuan?” it was thinking. ”Those pink papers?”
Zhang Zian didn’t get it. What the hell was paper? Gosh, his poor English…
He grasped his wallet, took out the only one-hundred-yuan bill inside, and put it on the chair where Maneki-Neko was sitting.
”This is yuan. It can buy pretty much everything in the world, more or less.”
Maneki-Neko flipped the bill with its claw, carefully examining the back of it.
”The currency in this era looks just like this. Hum… Yuan is a good thing.” It looked at the statesman on the bill and asked, ”Who is he?”
”The founder and greatest leader of this country,” Zhang Zian replied.
”Well, the tradition hasn’t changed a bit in hundreds of years.” It accepted it with good understanding.
After seeing it flip the bill many times, Zhang Zian tried to take the bill back, worrying its sharp claw might scratch it.
Maneki-Neko held the bill with its claw, refusing to lose.
Zhang Zian was worried.
He grasped it with more strength.
It held the bill even more firmly, staring at him coldly.
”…”
He reluctantly let the bill go. Otherwise, it might have broken into pieces.
”This is my money,” he stated this fact.
”All the money and fortune in the world belongs to me,” the cat said arrogantly.
Zhang Zian mimicked its tone. ”All the beauties in the world belong to me.”
”You are daydreaming!” it responded, just like it was talking to a foreman. ”Wake up and go ahead and move your bricks.”
Zhang Zian was annoyed. It was okay to be despised by a human being, but being despised by a cat? How could that be?