24 Loan (1/2)

Looking around, Ensen realized one thing. He had no idea how to get back home.

Pulling up the status, Ensen looked for a button to return home.

[Ensen Fuentes]

[Education Points: 18]

[Academy Rank: Null]

[Age: 27]

[Math average: C]

[Science average: F-]

[English average: F-]

[Foreign language average: F-]

[Sports average: F-]

[Teaching average: D+]

[administration average: D-]

[Other]

[Skill Market]

[Product Market]

[Auction House]

Confused by the lack of a way to return home, Ensen turned to the system for an answer.

”Hey system, how do I return home? There doesn't seem to be an option to.” Ensen asked while observing the people from below funnel towards a door before disappearing from view.

Turning his eyes towards the other private rooms, he realized that the purple-haired girl that had the Supreme Empress System had disappeared at some point during the auction.

A blue box soon notified him of the way to exit the auction house.

[To exit the auction house, you must think about returning to your body. This is true for all of the shops as well. This method is unavailable for Inception rank systems, which is why the hosts below are walking towards the manual exit.]

Ensen nodded his head in acknowledgment and began to follow the instructions of the system. Ensen closed his eyes and focused on his body that was currently collapsed on the couch back at his home. After a few moments, he felt something peculiar he couldn't describe. Opening his eyes, he realized he was still in the private room. Looking down at his body, he noticed it had begun to fade slowly.

Although Ensen had begun to panic a bit from reflex, he knew it was going to be fine. As more and more of his body started to fade away, Ensen grew calmer. A few seconds later his body disappeared from the private room.

Back at Ensen's living room, an odd scene was taking place. Just a few seconds prior a corpse with no sign of life was lying carelessly on the couch as if just thrown there. This was not an illusion, even if somebody investigated the body they would also conclude it was lifeless.

But oddly enough, the tall black-hard corpse had begun to open it's sky blue eyes.

'I'm finally back, that was an odd experience.' Ensen thought to himself in amusement.

Regaining the feeling back in his real body, Ensen felt his muscles slightly sore. Slowly getting up from the couch, Ensen began to give his muscles a nice stretch.

After finishing his stretches began to think about what his plan would be considering that he now knew what the shops could do as well as their general pricing for items.

It didn't seem like he could afford… well, anything really. He could not even afford to get a basic skill upgrade, for a useful skill at least. Not to mention buildings, which were very expensive for him right now, especially considering how little education points he had made for all his recent effort.

But it's not like he could hold off on updating or buying a building from the system. After all, he didn't even have a working schoolhouse. He could work for a little longer to get two more education points, then buy the unfurnished version of the already existing building he had on his property. But that seemed like a colossal waste because just like the system said it was a mess and dysfunctional. Ensen was using selective eyes on the building previously and was mainly just looking at the good parts, with less focus on the bad. But now that he saw how heavily the system criticized the building, he knew that it shouldn't be saved.

But that left him with no obvious options. Running out of ideas, he asked the system for help.

”Is there any way I could get more education points to establish my academy? I can't really go any further without that.” Ensen reasoned with the system, hoping for a reply back.

After waiting for a few seconds, he realized the system was playing hard to get again.

”Come on, help me out here. Is there a loan you can give me at least?” Ensen asked as a last-ditch effort. After all, he basically had no leverage he could use against the system to get his way. Although Ensen thought the system cared about him very slightly at the very least, he knew that the system could most likely simply move on if it wanted to.

Surprisingly, the system actually responded this time.

[While no loans or similar things are available ordinarily, the Supreme Academy System would find it an utter disgrace if you use the existing structure. As such the system is willing to give the host a proposition.]

With an excited nod, Ensen stood there waiting for a few seconds before saying ”Why did you stop? Keep going please.”

Complying with Ensen, the system displayed a new blue box with a deal written on it.

[The system is willing to offer the host a 200 education points loan in return for a 10% interest rate on return. As such, you will be required to pay back 220 education points to the system before being able to properly use them again.]

Looking at the offer written out in front of him, Ensen couldn't decide if the system was being generous or evil. Maybe it was being both.

Voicing his concerns, Ensen raised them to the system. ”It took me several weeks to only acquire 8 points. Do you know how long it would take to pay you back? I would probably have to be working on getting education points until I die.”