-Challenge-

“What is it, Amaris. Why did you come here so early in the morning. Shouldn’t you be busy with the challenge I’ve given you?”

Mr. Weldien asked a quite surprising question for Amaris, while sipping his strong black coffee. Amaris, who took a piece of toast then smeared it with peanut butter, cleared her throat perfectly.

“I came to give a joke to Grandpa. I think Grandpa would love to hear this joke.”

“Joke?” asked Mr. Weldien.

“Yes, the joke that Elissa’s husband had made, and I had no idea that the jobless useless man had such a great sense of humour.”

“What’s the joke?” Mr. Weldien asked again.

Amaris smiled wryly, then she looked at her grandfather who had been silent and watched her.

“A funny joke, grandpa. You know, last night I brought Luke to Elissa’s house. We gave the best offer by giving Elissa a capital of five hundred million dollars without needing to be returned, and with that capital Elissa can easily get fifteen percent of the profit like what Grandpa has given the challenge. It’s just that grandpa’s prettiest granddaughter is really an idiot. Elissa flatly refused the offer I had given, even having offended Luke. And the most ridiculous thing is, that selfless unemployed man said arrogantly that he would be able to give his wife two billion dollars in capital, and do you know when would he give that capital? Tomorrow, Grandpa. Just imagine, an unemployed person who doesn’t have even one dollar of income will give his wife two billion dollars, wouldn’t that be the most stupid joke in the world?”

Amaris immediately laughed with some members of the Weldien family who happened to be having breakfast there. Meanwhile Mr. Weldien chose to remain silent, putting down the coffee he had just sipped.

“Tomorrow?” he asked, confirming what Amaris said.

“Yes, Grandpa. Tomorrow that selfless unemployed man will show his two billion dollars in front of me, Luke and Uncle as well as Aunt. Does Grandpa want to see it too?”

“Looks like we have to capture the moment, Amaris. You should call a lot of reporters, show the world that the Weldiens have a useless son-in-law like Jonathan. So that Jonathan would understand and leave the Weldien family immediately.”

“Grandpa, don’t worry, without that, maybe the fate of that useless unemployment man won’t last long. And his marriage relationship with Elissa would end soon. Why? Because we have made a bet. If tomorrow Jonathan couldn’t bring the two billion dollars like what he promised yesterday, then he must voluntarily divorce Elissa, and Luke will replace Jonathan as Elissa’s husband. Of course, the idiot immediately agreed with that haughty look on his face, and the imbecile named Elissa agreed too. I really can’t wait to see how the two of them become the most stupid humans in the whole world, when their marriage will end soon because of Jonathan’s crazy hallucinations.”

Mr. Weldien finally smiled, how could he not? Even without doing anything, but with Jonathan’s own stupidity, Jonathan would finally leave the Weldien family and stop embarrassing the Weldien family.

*****

“Tell us, Mr. Enstein, what must we do for you today? Every day, the system will continue to run and you must make progress to twenty percent from the initial data. I hope you have the desire to increase the number of your wealth.”

Jonathan, who was currently sitting pretty in a cafe, seemed to be thinking hard, then he looked at the two servants who were standing faithfully in front of him.

“You know, I really wanted to own a company. I would love to be called a chief director, a rich businessman, and so on. However, I realized that setting up a company not only required a large amount of capital, but I also had to think carefully about what line of business I wanted to develop, and the development process took so long. So what do you think I should do?”

“Mr. Einstein doesn’t need to worry. Now to become an entrepreneur you don’t have to build a company from scratch. You can start by buying some shares of several companies on the stock market, sir. Thus, you can have shares in the company. The more shares you have means you have a big stake in the company, and the power will certainly be yours.”

“Then, hurry up and help me, I want to own the biggest shares of the biggest company in this country. No, not only in this country, but in this world.”

“Very well, Mr. Enstein. All Mr. Enstein’s requests will be carried out by us.”

“And one more thing.”

“Yes, Mr. Enstein?”

“Will you be able to get two billion dollars worth of cash to me tomorrow? Because I really need the money tomorrow.”

“Tomorrow, Mr. Einstein?”

One of Jonathan’s servants asked, then he looked at the other servant. To be honest, they were quite confused. What was the reason of why Jonathan suddenly wanted a very large amount of money all of a sudden. However, they did not have the right to ask either. This was Jonathan’s money, Jonathan had the full right of what to do with the money.

“Very well, Mr. Enstein. Tomorrow morning we will have two billion dollars worth of money ready for you.”

“That’s great.”

*****

“Where are you taking me, John?”

This afternoon Jonathan deliberately took his beloved wife for a walk. Of course, to enjoy the money he had earned. Jonathan wanted to buy expensive things for his wife, eat well, and buy fancy clothes. Because Jonathan felt that all this time he had never treated his wife well.

“Today we’re going shopping, having a romantic dinner, and buying anything you want, Elissa.”

“Is this true?” asked Elissa with an expression that seemed to not believe. “Have you got a job, John?” Elissa probed again.

Jonathan couldn’t have told Elissa if he suddenly became a man who had money that will never run out. Because he was sure that Elissa would ask a lot of questions, so Jonathan chose to nod his head, at least so that his wife wouldn’t ask too many questions.

“That’s right, I have found a job, and I got paid on the same day. Since now I have enough money, then buy whatever you want, Elissa. You can buy clothes, bags, jewellery, shoes. Everything like what you had as a member of the Weldien family.”

“Is it true?” Elissa seemed happy to hear Jonathan’s words. However, Elissa’s face turned somber again.

How was she not, all the items mentioned by Jonathan had a price that was not cheap. Meanwhile, how much did Jonathan earn now? Even to buy a single item ... he will not be able to.

“No need, John. Instead of you wanting to buy me as many things as you want, wouldn’t it be better for you to save your money? Our household needs it very much. Moreover, we will move to a suburban estate. The cost of renting several trucks to carry our goods is not cheap. We have to save a lot.”

Jonathan smiled, if indeed his wife had a view like that it was very commonplace. Until then, Jonathan led his wife to one of the most famous boutiques in the country, a boutique with all items sold at high prices.

“Come in, choose whatever you like, Babe .”

“But ....”

“I have a lot of money now, I will buy it all for you.”

Elissa was silent for a moment, when she looked at Jonathan with that happy face, it made Elissa unable to refuse. It didn’t matter if Jonathan was hallucinating or not, whether Elissa will get bad treatment from the boutique employees or not, it didn’t matter.

“Fine, I’ll pick a bunch of stuff and blow your bankroll, John!”

While smiling broadly, Elissa went straight into the boutique.

Jonathan was very happy to see the smile off his wife.

“My money will never run out, Elissa. And after this, I will make you queen, forever. I will make a beautiful palace for you,” Jonathan muttered.

“Sorry, Sir. What are you going to do here?” The boutique employee who saw Jonathan still standing in the doorway of the boutique asked. Jonathan gasped, he then smiled shyly.

“I want to buy things in this boutique, Miss.”

The boutique employee immediately looked Jonathan up and down. When she saw Jonathan’s shabby appearance, and all the items Jonathan wore were cheap, the employee immediately smiled cynically.

“Do you have enough money to buy things here, Sir? All the goods here are of the highest quality, the prices are very high. My advice is ... if you really can’t, or don’t know, then leave immediately before you are kicked out by the employees inside for disturbing the view and trashing this expensive boutique, sir.”

Jonathan smiled again, of course he always got this kind of treatment. But now Jonathan will not hesitate to shut up anyone who continued to insult him.

“Is there a customer card in this boutique?”

“Of course there is, sir. Here, there are lots of customers from officials, artists, and world-class entrepreneurs. To have the card you have to make a minimum transaction of fifty million dollars, and even then you’ll just get a first level customer card.”

“Then what is the highest class of customer card here?”  asked Jonathan again.

“The VVIP class where the amount of items to buy is at least five hundred million dollars. And I’m sure if you can’t do that, then please go, before my boss comes and scolds me for allowing beggars to come in this boutique. So—”

“I want to subscribe to VVIP in this boutique, this is my card. Take whatever you want, miss.”

The employee was very shocked, she was stunned to see Jonathan’s gold card. Swallowing hard, the employee immediately stepped back.

“Wait a minute, sir. Please come inside to process your customer card.”

“No need. Do you see that beautiful woman in the boutique? She is my wife, give this boutique customer card in my wife’s name, order, and select all the most expensive and best items in this boutique for her. Make sure the nominal is like what you said earlier. I don’t need to go into a place where the entire staff only looks at people based on what they’re wearing.”

The employee lowered her face deeply. She felt slapped perfectly by Jonathan’s insinuation.

“My apologies, sir.  I really didn’t mean it like that.”

“I don’t care. And if you want, you can pick some stuff too, Miss. Isn’t it very uncomfortable to work in shoes where the heels are almost … broken.”

After saying that, Jonathan immediately left. He chose to wait for Elissa at the opposite cafe, smiling mockingly at the employee. The employee immediately lowered her head, her face was turned bright red because of embarrassment.