I got home that day with a lot of time to spare, contemplating what to do with my time, I decided to learn more about secret skills.
“System, what can you tell me about secret skills?”“Huh, and what conditions caused me to acquire access to render?”Now I was confused. I unlocked the render skill because I’d been regressed? Did that mean I wasn’t the only one who had access to the system? I had to ask.“ System, am I the only one who has access to you?”There it went again talking about the code. “What is the code anyway?”‘I guess I’ll lay off for now’ I thought, whatever the code was I knew I would find out sooner or later.I still had a lot of free time and didn’t know what to do with it, I still hadn’t gotten an email from Ariel so that also wasn’t an option.I decided to contact Logan again, I felt weird as we’d spoken just about an hour ago, but having nothing else to do I decided to put my plan in motion.I sent him an email and our conversation went thus:*Logan, I think it’s time we begin to put my plan in motion, I have little information on how to purchase shares of a company so I’ll need you to guide me through what I need to do. Reply me as soon as you get this.*“Well that’s easy, all you need is a brokerage account which you can set up in about 15 minutes. When we previously purchased stocks I simply used mine but now that we’re considering investing in company shares I think you consider creating yours.”*What is a brokerage account and how do I make one?* I felt embarrassed at the fact that with all my knowledge of stocks and the stock market I didn’t know basic information.“A brokerage account is basically an account that holds financial assets such as securities on behalf of an investor with a bank, broker or custodian. Investors and traders typically have a securities account with the broker or bank they use to buy and sell securities.”*Could you make your explanation a little easier to understand?*“Sure thing Malcolm, it’s basically an investment account that allows you to buy and sell a variety of investments, such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and ETFs. Whether you're setting aside money for the future or saving up for a big purchase, you can use your funds whenever and however you want. Is that easy enough?”*Yes I think I understand now. And how do I open a brokerage account?*“Well that can be done from your computer, but I would advise that we do more research on pineapple and Steven Johnson first, also we need to know how much the company is currently worth to know how much we are to invest.”*Alright, I’ll do that now and get back to you.*And with that I began to do my research on Steven Johnson and Pineapple.As of 2002 which was the current year, Pineapple was worth around $2.2 billion. This was a lot more than I expected and I hit a crossroads.Even if I invested my whole net worth of $6million I would only control about 3.6 of the entire company’s shares.This was something I could not have, and now I was desperate. How could I make enough money to control at least 25% of Pineapple’s shares?I was about to go to Logan to ask for advice, and then it hit me. I couldn’t believe I’d forgotten about this factor and chastised myself for forgetting….spit coins.Spit coins were an online currency that gained headway around 2009 and were invented by Satushi Nishatomo.It was 2002 and he’d be around 27 years of age at the time. After Doing more research on him I realized that he’d had the idea to create spit coins for years but was never granted the funding to enact this dream of his.I would give him those funds. If I could manage to be a co-founder of spit coins, then I could forever forget about wealth being my problem in my second life.I instantly emailed Logan and explained this idea to him.“Spit coins? I mean I’d heard of the concept a couple of times but I never really paid attention to it. It just seemed like the ramblings of an unemployed adult trying to make headway. Are you sure it’s legitimate?”*Logan, have I ever been wrong?*“Well no, but you’ve never proposed something of this scale, if it fails you’d really be bankrupt and on a large scale.”*I can understand you being skeptical but I need you to trust me on this Logan, if it fails I’ll find a way to get you your share of the money back. That I can guarantee you.*“It’s not about the money Malcolm, I just don’t want to see you fail. You’re my friend now and changed my life in such a short time that I could never even dream of.”*Just trust me on this one Logan, I promise it’ll work*“Alright then, what do we need to do first?”*First we need to contact Satushi and make him work for us at all costs*And with that Logan and I began to plot out the procedures for the plan. We stayed up for hours thinking up strategies to get Satushi’s trust and it was late in the night when we finally finished.I was tired but felt accomplished and as I lay on my bed, I embraced the prospect of a good night's rest after a hard day of work.[Evelyn’s POV]‘Something is definitely wrong with Malcolm, first he speaks back to me and humiliates me in front of the whole class, then I ask him to run a simple errand for me and he declines.His whole demeanor has changed, I feel something is going on with him. Even when I threatened him by saying that I would have to report him to his father, he hardly even responded.He used to be gullible and timid, but now he answers questions in class flawlessly without even paying attention, I can understand if he’s studying a lot but that isn’t enough to give him this amount of growth.And the most surprising part of it all is was that in the pop quiz I organized, Malcolm was the only student who managed to get perfect scores.Something can’t be right, he has to be cheating or something, this amount of growth in such a short amount of time. I didn’t want to ever have to do this but I feel I have to call Mr. Shade.’These were the thoughts that passed through the head of Malcolm’s cram scho
I left my house that day sad and distraught. My father had sent a driver to pick me up and as I came up to my junction ,there he was, already waiting for me. I said nothing to him and waltzed into the back seat of the car after he opened the door for me.In a couple of more moments we were moving. My life hadn’t always been like this, when was it that I’d stopped being happy and hated myself, I think I was 4 years of age.My father and I loved my mother very much and she felt the same for us. She would often tell me that she loved me the most in the entire world and I would be overjoyed as a child.My mother, Mrs Gabrielle Shade, was a beautiful woman who had long brown hair and green eyes. She was of European descent, Spanish I think. I barely had any knowledge of her and could only remember what she looked like thanks to Render.She and my father met when my father was on vacation in Paris, in his mid twenties. My father inherited the Shade corporation at a very young age and had be
As we pulled up to the giant gates of the Shade mansion, I was once again taken aback by the large structure that was my home.‘To think that I would return here’ I thought. The large castle that was the Shade mansion could never get old to me. It was gently nestled atop a lush hillside and one would have to drive up to reach the large castle like gates.On the interior, it had exactly 50 parking spaces and the environment was lined with various exotic flowers that were tended to everyday by the best gardeners.The entire area contained 3 buildings with 3 floors each and 2 basements. With the central building being stationed at the middle of the three.The building on the right was set out for guests, parties, and official purposes and the one on the left were the workers quarters.It was truly a sight to behold and a sense of nostalgia hit me as we pulled up to the front of the central house.I got down from the car as the driver opened the door for me. My father had been informed of
I was in a hospital bed staring at my mother. I could gradually see life fading from her eyes.“Somebody! Help! Please anybody!” I screamed but no one came. She looked me in my eyes and told me, “Malcolm, I’ll always love you” she said and let go of my hand.“No!” I screamed and then suddenly the ground opened up and I fell through a bottomless hole. I kept falling and screaming for a short while and I hit the floor pretty hard.I lay on the floor and tried using my hands to clean my face and saw blood!. I screamed in fear as I turned to my right and saw a hooded figure approach me.“No! Stay back!” I screamed as I tried to scramble away from the person but as I crawled he grabbed me by my ankle and pulled me back to him.He removed his hood and displayed his face before getting up and pulling out a gun, a large grin on his face. As he pulled the trigger I screamed in fear and woke up in my room.‘I was just dreaming’ I thought as I sat up in my bed. I picked my phone up and checked t
I got home that day and felt a sense of peace, I was finally free from the shackles of the Shade family to some extent and I cherished my new found solitude.A week has passed before I went back home and I spent that week following my normal routine, except for the fact that I’d been tutoring Ariel.We’d made arrangements on that weekend after my father called asking me to come home and for the past week I’d been tutoring her.Exams were fast approaching and I saw her making a lot of progress.We would meet at my place everyday after school and study for about two hours before she would head home.My apartment was closer to school and she always had a driver take her home anyway so it was convenient for both of us.She wasn’t complaining anyway. One day after we’d finished studying we had a deep conversation about our plans for after school.It went thus.****We’d just finished studying that day.I let out a huge yawn as Ariel packed her bags. I had no reason to study, I already knew
A couple of days later, I was fast approaching my exams. I did most of my things the same except that me and Ariel had been having overnight sessions where she would sleep over and go home the next morning.I also slowly grew my wealth as I continued to earn from stocks. Satushi had finally responded to me, and I proposed the idea of him working for me to him. At first he was skeptical and in disbelief but when I asked to meet up with him he knew I was serious.He explained how that wouldn’t be possible as he was very broke and that he didn’t have the funds to transport himself from Japan to America.I spoke to him for some more days and when I finally gained his trust, he finally agreed. I offered to pay for his flight and accommodation when he got here and he happily accepted.He didn’t have a job, his family lived in a village away from the city he lived in, he had no girlfriend or special ties with anyone and when I offered him a hefty sum he complied.And so this was where I curr
A couple of days has passed since I met Satushi and I put my business life on hold to focus on something else. That something else was my education.Our exams were fast approaching, Ariel was way behind in studies and we thought about what we could to help her catch up.She was far behind in the curriculum at all we did at cram school were revision questions so we both reasoned how we could help her get prepared in time.After contemplating for a long we both came to an agreement and we decided that she would be taking overnight classes at my place.I was perfectly fine without studying, i already used Render a long time ago to accurately write out the exam questions and I’d studied them very well.I considered giving them to Ariel but I figured she would feel much better if she actually got her admission on her own.And besides, I remember vividly that in my past life she had one of the top scores in the entrance exams so I wasn’t bothered by her too much, she was making decent progr
[Ariel’s POV]It’d been a while since I’d been this happy about spending time with someone. Malcolm and I had become so much closer since that day.I was right, he’d definitely changed, but I never took the time to find out why he’d changed or what changed him and now that he finally opened up to me, I couldn’t have been happier.I was happy because he saw me as someone he could express himself with, I was happy because he felt vulnerable with me, I was happy because he finally opened up to me.Our exams were fast and at first I was very worried about what I would do, but with Malcolm’s guidance and tutelage, I started to feel confident in myself.We were practically living together now, I had to spend the night at his place most times as we would be up studying till late at night.Most times after school I’d cook, and he said he enjoyed my cooking a lot. Sometimes he tried to help with cooking and most times he would end up making a mess and we would both laugh it off.We didn’t speak