Chapter 21 - Level 15 [ part 3 ]. Second, find money. (1/2)

It took around 20 minutes for ministry to react. It is pretty fast, huh. I waited not far from the alley it happened in and saw some people appear near the alley and start snooping around. I knew they were wizards, because before entering the alley they took out the wands.

Interesting. It proves that I have the 'Trace' on me and now I know approximate time of ministry reaction to spontaneous magic. I saw how they entered and started asking questions to people, before obliviating them. Thanks to my bracelet still on, they didn't pay attention to a small kid standing in shadows across the road.

Moreover, they weren't looking for 11-year-old kid. 3 ȧduŀts have been thrown around like toys, plus smokescreen with a good area of effect. So, ministry people should have thought it was 15 or at the very least 14-year-old.

When they stopped paying attention to the area I was in, I moved out and continued my run.

Honestly though, I expected wizards to apparate directly into the alley, but now I think it makes sense that they came by foot. Apparition will only attract more attention, while they are coming to make sure that new wizard or witch won't disclose magic to muggles.

At some point, I started running back and when I reached home, I understood, that I could have taken money from those men I beat. I've let free money escape my hands. Shame, but not a big loss. I need either a stable income or big but singular one.

Robbing a bank came to my mind, but I would feel bad about stealing somebody's money. Innocent people may suffer if bank won't restore stolen money to original owners.

However, I can rob some bad guys and by bad, I mean some big gang leaders or cartel big wigs. Although, I have no knowledge of how it all works and where do they keep their valuables. And apparently in the real world it is not that easy to find those guys.

As for stable income, I can cook, clean, program and probably do crimes(using magic).

Because I can only cast spells for short period of time after which I need to leave the place where I casted that magic. So, only bad stuff fits or maybe I am missing something…

Anyway, programming I know of is something from far future and is not applicable currently. It is like using a gun in medieval ages. Strong? Yes, but where will I find bullets? So, that is out of question unless I find some books to upgrade my knowledge. After all, with my studying abilities I can practically learn anything.

Cleaning won't raise me enough money, unless I clean crime scenes.

'I have no good ideas for this. Might as well go into gambling in this situation' I smiled and laughed internally, until thought came to me.

'Gambling! Currency exchange! Lotteries! Saves!'

But even those brilliant ideas were stumped out of existence, because in this age lotteries most probably have strong risk controls, while currency exchange needs big initial capital to quickly make more money and I don't know much about it anyway.

In the end, the only thing I can come up with is stealing. Am I really missing something?

I've reached the house and taken a shower. Changed clothes. While in school, I learned a spell to clean clothes, but here I can't use spells, so I need to quickly learn how to deal with my dirty clothes.

I discussed the problem with miss Granger, and she explained me what to do.

Next, I asked what they wanted for a dinner and if they need me to buy anything for them.

*25 minutes later*

At that moment, I saw an advertisement about how a restaurant was in a need of some cooking staff. I got instantly interested in it, because I could both make money and collect information about neighborhood from people inside.

'I mean, information should have a good circulation in the places, like this… right?'

*5 days later*

Summer is truly good time to get into good shape and grind, especially with 2 new skills I got. One of them was 'Training' and the other one was 'Cooking'. Thanks to my continuous training outside and cooking both for Grangers and at my new job, I was getting a lot of experience every day.

Both skills, thankfully started at 15, so I decided to check them out and see if they have abilities that can be helpful in any way or speed up my leveling like studying does.

『 Cooking 』

〖Agile cook 0/3〗

〖Wield cooking tools with more agility and higher speed.〗

It was an interesting ability, but I thought it was unneeded and too flashy. It can be suspicious if I suddenly start wielding cooking knife like chef with years of experience. Both Grangers and staff in restaurant saw my skills and are already awed by my performance.

Anyway, I digress, next ability:

『 Training 』

〖Good Metabolism 0/4〗

〖Speed up your metabolism without damaging your body. Makes all restorative, digestive, growing and reproductive processes work better.〗

Training ability was indeed incredible, because it can increase efficiency of the training, I do every morning, thus making me get twice the effects for half the time. I had one skill point left to spend so I decided to invest it into this ability.

I also deleted 2 saves I did before picking abilities, so now I have 2 free slots.

Other than these two skills I had no time to improve other skills. I literally have no time. Wake up cook breakfast for the whole family, even if they say I don't need to, I kind of feel obliged to do so. Then training. Then shower and going to work. Break for launch, I go home to cook dinner(or help with it) and we eat, then I go back to work. Work till 6pm and then without going home I start running once more for 30 minutes or so.

Thanks to upgraded metabolism, my body restores faster, though it doesn't cancel all the pain I have to go through with these training. My muscles cry in agony every morning.

Anyway, I get home around 7 dead tired, get shower, help with supper, have no energy to eat, so I crush in bed, to sleep.

I want to find and visit local library to maybe get some new skills, however with such a tight schedule I have no time. Plus, I asked the owner if I can work every day and he wasn't against it, so I also don't have weekends. I need money and I need a lot of them.

I was on the verge, working and training every day, especially with child level of stamina. The only thing that was keeping me up was new training ability, I just got. What's worse, after finding out exchange rate from Mister Granger and calculating expenses, I found out that money I will make in these full 3 months won't be enough to buy even half of the necessary items.

'Couldn't Potter story begin somewhere in 2012, like with YouTube and Google, but no you need to start in some damn forgotten 1992.'

What's more apparently this world's technology was even a bit behind my original world's.

'Their internet coverage and availability are appalling. I know it's 1992 but I am not on some forgotten island in Bermuda. I am in capital of Great Britain, damn it.'

I was desperate to find a way to make some money and finally, today I heard an interesting rumor during work about a shop making a fortune. I think its good chance to make fast and easy money. But I'm afraid after this my alignment will definitely fall to evil. *Sigh*

To hell with conscience. I need money and I am out of options or patience.