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Chapter: 16
The Legent of the Galaxy God of War – Reincarnation (7)
At my sigh, Siwoo wiped my sweat with a towel and asked.
“Is something wrong? Are you feeling sick? Should we go to the hospital?”
“No. I’m not sick.”
Normally, even if a child said they weren’t sick, people would assume they were lying because they didn’t want to go to the hospital and would take them anyway.
But unlike ordinary children, I was properly telling the truth, so Siwoo believed me.
However, perhaps because young children sometimes don’t understand their own condition well, he checked my temperature just in case and asked.
“Then is it because the training is difficult?”
“Uh… it is tiring, but that’s not the reason.”
“Then why did you sigh?”
Because I sighed since I couldn’t return to my original body.
I couldn’t tell him about the multidimensional avatar, so I had no way to explain it.
Even if I could explain the multidimensional avatar, I couldn’t tell him the reason I couldn’t return to my main body.
Because saying that I couldn’t return because there was no bathroom on the first floor of the tower where my main body was located would be way too embarrassing!
There was nothing on the first floor of the tower.
The only thing there was me and the crystal that acted as a passageway to the second floor or Earth.
There was nothing there that could fulfill the necessities of life.
Of course, I was already wearing clothes, and food could be supplied through my tower clone or reincarnation clone.
The first floor of the tower had nothing—not even wind or rain—and the temperature was constant, so I didn’t need a house either.
However, the problem was that humans had biological needs. Even if you stayed still, you had to eat, and if you ate, you had to dispose of the waste that came with it.
That’s right. My main body was currently in a life-or-death crisis.
Faced with a desperate battle involving my dignity as a human, I had no choice but to escape from my main body and come into the body of my reincarnation clone.
I had escaped for now, but this was a problem I had to solve somehow.
No matter how endlessly wide the first floor of the tower was, there were still things a person could and could not do.
When the crisis first appeared, I thought about burying it and marking the location.
But after seeing the hard ground, I had no choice but to abandon that plan.
I tried striking the ground hard with my one-handed sword, but it didn’t even leave a scratch.
If I had made even the slightest mistake, my real body could have been injured instead.
If a clone got hurt, I could simply create another clone, but my main body couldn’t be recreated, so I had to be careful.
And so, at that critical moment, I chose to run away and had been worrying about it ever since.
Hmm, should I send a plastic bag through my inventory and deal with it that way?
No, if I made a mistake, I wouldn’t even be able to wash it.
I had to think about the future, so I needed to be careful.
“I just have something on my mind.”
As I fell into a problem I couldn’t easily solve, Siwoo said.
“I don’t know what your concern is, but perhaps you could consider my small piece of advice?”
At Siwoo’s suggestion, I vaguely described my situation.
“Siwoo, what would you do if you were alone on a deserted island?”
“I’m not sure. Are you talking about a survival situation after being stranded?”
“Something like that.”
At my answer, Siwoo thought for a moment.
“If you were stranded during a voyage, would you have a survival kit? Camping equipment would be even better, but since it would be a sudden situation, you probably wouldn’t be able to obtain those things. So you would need the skills to camp in the wilderness with the minimum necessary tools…”
“That’s it!”
I suddenly jumped up from my seat.
Camping equipment!
Among camping supplies, weren’t there portable toilets and showers too?
The inventory had a weight limit, but if something was heavy, I could just disassemble it into parts and send it to my main body.
My goodness, such a simple solution existed, and I hadn’t thought of it until now!
I got excited, then calmed down and thought about it.
Actually, it made sense that I hadn’t thought of it.
After all, I had no way to obtain camping equipment right now.
The tower shop didn’t sell portable toilets or anything like that, and right now I was not even two years old.
I didn’t have money to buy camping supplies. Ask Siwoo to buy them for me? Would Siwoo actually buy them?
When I looked at Siwoo, he blinked and answered.
“I don’t know what it was, but I’m glad it seems to have helped.”
Hmm, he probably wouldn’t buy it because it was dangerous.
Camping equipment had many sharp, pointed, and heavy objects that weren’t suitable for a child to touch.
But I couldn’t just ask him to buy only a portable toilet and shower.
If he asked why I needed those things, I had no way to answer.
Demanding things without reason was the Demonic Art.
If I kept using the Demonic Art, there was a risk that it wouldn’t work when I actually needed it.
For a computer, it was worth throwing a tantrum because collecting information was important, but a portable toilet was a little different.
In the end, financial control was important.
As time passed, the things I needed would increase, and I couldn’t ask Siwoo to buy something for me every single time.
Then I had no choice but to persuade him.
“Siwoo, what money do we use to live and eat?”
At my question, Siwoo hesitated for a moment as if troubled, then answered.
“The money your parents earned, young master.”
“Exactly.”
“……!”
Siwoo hesitated.
“Don’t lie.”
At my firm words, Siwoo soon answered as if he had no choice.
“…The money being used for your current lifestyle is the inheritance your parents left you, young master.”
It seemed Siwoo hesitated because he was wondering whether it was right to tell me about my parents’ deaths.
For an ordinary child, he probably would have lied and said their parents were temporarily overseas.
Ah, in this world, would he say they went to another planet instead?
But when I told him not to lie, he seemed to realize that I already knew about my parents’ deaths.
“When did you find out?”
I couldn’t say: Since I was born, I found out from the loose-lipped nurse and your first self-introduction.
Who would believe that a newborn baby who couldn’t even open their eyes properly could understand words?
At Siwoo’s question, I shrugged.
“It’s been a while. Since there hasn’t even been the slightest contact. In an era where video calls between planets are possible as long as they’re in the same star system, isn’t it strange that there wasn’t even a video message?”
“…I see.”
Siwoo seemed convinced by my explanation.
Perhaps because I often acted unlike a normal baby, it was easier for him to accept.
Even if it was the 50th century, what baby could lie on a sofa, watch documentaries, and skillfully browse the internet during breaks?
“Who is managing the inheritance I received?”
“It is being managed by a professional asset management company under the Cheon family.”
“Can I trust them?”
At my question, Siwoo nodded.
“Before you become an adult, even if it is an asset manager, whenever they move money above a certain amount, they need the approval of me, your representative, and Mr. Cheon Gyeong-ho, your legal guardian. They cannot steal the money. Even if they did, they would be tracked by the Cheon family, so they would not be able to live within the territory of the orthodox martial world.”
“But that means the asset manager can only maintain the assets without reducing them and can’t make major investments.”
“That is correct.”
Then they were probably only doing things like fixed deposits or low-risk funds.
“Of course, I won’t be able to move large amounts of money until I become an adult either.”
“That is correct.”
Well, I didn’t need a huge amount of money right now, so it wasn’t a problem.
“Can I see my assets?”
“Of course. You can transparently view your asset records at any time.”
Siwoo turned on the computer in the living room and showed me the details of the assets I had inherited.
“The assets you inherited, young master, are mainly divided into three categories. Cash assets, real estate, and investment assets.”
The number shown in the account records was quite large.
The problem was that I still didn’t know the prices in this world, so I didn’t know whether this was a lot of money or a little.
If someone asked you to choose between 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollars and 100 US dollars, who would choose the former?
Since I had no reason to spend money, I hadn’t even thought about checking prices.
“What can you buy with one nyang?”
‘Nyang’ was the currency unit of the Galactic International Currency Alliance.
Simply put, it was like the euro in the Eurozone.
In the orthodox faction’s territory, the nyang was definitely the standard currency, but I didn’t know whether it could also be used in the demonic or unorthodox territories.
The Demon Cult used its own single currency, and in the unorthodox territories, I knew that the major sects ruling each star system issued their own currencies, or the currency of the Unorthodox Alliance was used as the main currency.
Still, the nyang could probably be used or exchanged in the unorthodox or demonic territories too.
“You probably can’t buy anything. These days, even the snacks you eat cost at least 1,000 nyang.”
So one nyang was roughly one won?
No, the snacks I ate seemed somewhat expensive, so maybe one nyang was closer to six won?
It was annoying, so I decided to just think of it as one-to-one.
Besides, the production capabilities and technology levels of my original world and the Galaxy Martial World were so different that a simple comparison of prices was meaningless.
It would be worse than comparing rice prices in the Joseon era with rice prices in the 21st century.
“One, ten, hundred, thousand… Wow, I’m rich?”
At this level, I could probably live my entire life doing nothing just from interest income.
“Was my father someone who made that much money?”
“He belonged to the Cheon family’s military force, so he wasn’t poor, but he was also someone who spent as much as he earned, so I heard he wasn’t able to increase his wealth.”
“Then where did this money come from?”
“Your father inherited this wealth from your grandmother, young master.”
My grandfather, Cheon Gyeong-ho, had lived for over 500 years and married a total of 27 women.
Naturally, there was no polygamy… but apparently, he had a history of being caught cheating and divorcing during about half of his marriages.
Of course, he had also made the news because he had several children born outside of marriage.
Anyway, Cheon Gyeong-ho spent time with his 27 wives and an unknown number of mistresses, having a total of 63 children, and my father was born as the youngest among one son and two daughters from his 24th wife.
My father died at the age of 76.
He had just reached the Hwagyeong realm and died while carrying out a mission in a fierce battlefield.
Since my father was 76, my grandmother was naturally even older.
My grandmother failed to reach Hwagyeong and died of old age about five years ago, and her wealth was inherited by her biological children.
My grandmother was one of the heirs of a conglomerate family, and when she divorced Cheon Gyeong-ho after catching him cheating, she received an enormous divorce settlement.
Rumors said that the money she obtained from Cheon Gyeong-ho was several times greater than the wealth she inherited as a member of the conglomerate family.
During her lifetime, my grandmother spared no expense investing that enormous wealth into helping her children increase their realms.
Apparently, Siwoo himself was also a training android that my grandmother invested in for my father.
According to Siwoo, surprisingly, unlike Cheon Gyeong-ho, my father was an extremely devoted husband.
Because of that, Siwoo had to spend more time caring for my father’s younger wife, Seo Gyeong-ae, than acting as my father’s training partner.
Returning to the matter of the inheritance, after my grandmother’s death, her wealth was divided equally into three parts and inherited, but my father barely touched the inherited wealth and only used the money he earned himself.
As a result, that inherited wealth came entirely to me, his only child.
Of course, it wasn’t completely intact because I had to pay inheritance taxes.
Siwoo added.
“The cash assets are about one-fifth of the total assets. Most of it is real estate.”
(To be continued in the next chapter)
