dkrc Chapter 39 What does it mean that student loans must be repaid with money from cremated remains?
Chapter 39 What does it mean that student loans must be repaid with money from cremated remains?
After saying that, Mana 1 burst into laughter again.
As she laughed, she covered her face.
The noise in the hall seemed to have disappeared from Mana1 at this moment.
Mana's shoulders began to tremble, and suppressed sobs escaped from between her fingers. After a long while, she took a deep breath, lowered her hands, and her eyes were red-rimmed.
"I have to be careful with the money I spend on repairing my staff now."
Her voice was loud enough for everyone to hear clearly.
"My student loans have accumulated so much interest that it will take me decades to pay them off."
The braided adventurer who was just arguing with Mana came over to comfort her.
Because she also has student loans to repay.
Andrea 2 looked at Mana 1 and suddenly felt a pang of sadness.
She walked over and patted Mana on the back: "Is being in debt really that terrible?"
Mana 1 raised her head, her eyes filled with a kind of fear, or rather, a desperate madness.
"Miss Andrea 2, do you know? Those guys at the Demon Academy are devils! Especially those necromancy specialists... those old Bitdens!"
She emphasized the three words "Old Bi Deng" very heavily, almost uttering them through gritted teeth.
"If you die and don't have to pay back the money, then forget it."
Mana's voice began to tremble.
"But those necromancers are all lackeys of the finance department! If you die because you owe money, they'll drag your corpse out and control your soul and body to make you do this and that."
"If your soul is gone, use your flesh; if your flesh rots, use your bones!"
"Even if you lose your bones, they'll still burn you to ashes and use the money to pay off their debts!"
"Even worse, damn it! I'm the one who has to pay back the money for burning my ashes!"
"I was fucking dead back then!"
"Eeya————————!"
Mana1 imagined that scene, covered her head, and let out a sharp explosion.
The sound was so piercing that everyone in the hall covered their ears.
"Why did I ever learn magic?!"
Mana 1 grabbed her hair and screamed on the verge of collapse.
Her words acted as a fuse.
In the hall, everyone wearing robes and mage badges—whether they were academy students, mages doing internships after graduation, unemployed mages who had become adventurers, or simply adventurers who knew a little magic—was present.
They all collapsed in a kind of resonance. Sharp roars, desperate wails, and angry curses rose and fell.
In an instant, the guild hall became a scene of collective collapse for the mages.
Andrea 2 was stunned by the scene.
She looked at Mana 1 and found that Mana 1 was looking at her with bloodshot eyes.
"Miss Elf, you must be very rich, right? You didn't have to take out student loans when you were in school, did you?" Mana asked.
Andrea thought to herself, "Rich?"
me?
The money in her pocket right now is still the allowance Terra gave her.
"No," Andrea 2 answered honestly.
"It's so good to be rich!" Mana hummed.
"No, the elven education I received at the Amber Room was all funded by the clan. We learned history, magic, and natural knowledge without having to pay."
Mana's eyes were bloodshot.
Andrea2 felt that Mana1's eyes were like those of a mad dog, as if it wanted to rush up and bite off her flesh.
But that intense emotion quickly disappeared.
"Mommy~"
Mana 1 suddenly blurted out this sentence out of nowhere.
"Me?" Andrea 2 pointed to herself.
"Ah, no, I miss my mom. How did she manage to pay off her student loans?"
"Oh, right, when I married my dad~"
"Why did our family have to fall on hard times just when I was learning magic?!"
Mana 1 crashed headfirst into Andrea 2's chest, making her head ache.
Just then, two figures walked over.
One is Lagon.
He patted Mana on the shoulder, his voice low but firm: "I'll help you pay it back. Anyway, I don't owe any money."
The other is Bahrain.
He patted Mana's calf, but given his height, that was the only distance he could reach.
"I did make some money before... well, I'll help you pay off the interest for these past few months."
Mana looked at them, and tears welled up again. But this time, there was something different in those tears.
"Get lost, you stinky lizard! You should save your money to find a female lizard to lay eggs with!"
Ragon nodded: "You don't need to worry about that."
*
By the other gate, Terra was still in shock at what Stella, the NPC, had said.
"In short," Terra tried to conclude, "you want a house, right?"
Stella was a little confused by his erratic thinking: "It's not that I don't have a house, I do have a house, it's just that I have to pay back the money."
You said if I don't pay back the money, I'll lose the house.
Terra, with a thought bubble rising above her head, said logically, "Doesn't that mean I don't have a house?"
Stella was momentarily stunned.
She opened her mouth, wanting to refute, but found that what Terra said... seemed to make sense.
"You're right to say that," she finally admitted.
A bubble representing thought appeared above Terra's head.
He recalled that in the old version, the NPCs that spawned after meeting the generation conditions would also urge him to have a house to live in.
They would say, "I need a place to live," or "Please build me a room."
But no NPC will ever say "I need to pay my mortgage" or "If I don't pay, my house will be taken away."
They're quite cute.
Terra thought.
"it is good."
A smiley face bubble appeared above Terra's head: "I'll build you a house."
Stella stared at Terra's square eyes in horror: "What? You're going to charge me for my mortgage too?"
"I won't take your money," Terra said.
In that instant, Stella's eyes lit up.
That's the look in the eyes of a drowning person seeing driftwood, or a desert traveler seeing an oasis.
In short, it was the look of someone looking at a savior.
"I want!"
She practically shouted it out.
"Lady Terra, if you can give me a house, you can come to the guild every day, even riding me. Wait a minute..."
"You can do anything to me!"
"I can also take the president's place and get beaten in the basement!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than a coughing sound echoed in the hall.
Several adventurers who were drinking ale spat it out, while the others looked at Stella with complicated and strange expressions.
The elf Andrea 2 thought to herself, "You can't say that to Terra."
Andrea 2 recalls what Terra did. What if Terra killed Stella multiple times? It feels like something Terra would do.
But more importantly, Andrea 2 knows exactly what Terra meant by "house".
She knew it all too well.
After being rescued from the goblins by Terra, Andrea 2 saw Terra's architectural style when she went to Terra's house in the forest.
It was less a house and more a kind of enclosed space that met the minimum survival needs.
No, it doesn't even meet the minimum requirements.
As soon as they entered the town, Terra used blocks to create a frame in mid-air and pulled the miner and the little girl inside. Inside, there was a low table, a chair, and a torch, with drafts coming from both sides.
It was a flat surface, and Terra called it a house.
Even prisons aren't that bad.
"You'd better not get your hopes up," Andrea 2 quickly pulled Terra back, bending down to say to Stella.
"Director, what are you babbling about? Do you want a house too?"
Andrea 2 quickly waved.