Make Me an Offer, Mr. Chu

It wasn't a dazzling display of sparks and lightning, but it still left flesh torn and bloody.

The blood on the Gluttony patient seemed to flow sluggishly.

A few seconds passed before it seeped from the sliced skin.

Chu Yunyi didn't dare waste a moment.

He was afraid that if he took two steps too late, the Gluttony Leader's wound would heal right up!

That was right.

He was genuinely worried it would heal.

The Gluttony Leader was simply too enormous, and the Black Gold Shock Saber was simply too sharp.

The cut was far too clean.

If the flesh pressed together again, it might actually heal...

"Being too sharp can be a drawback..." Chu Yunyi said, a little embarrassed.

If he'd had enough time,

he could've smeared some poison on the blade. If that didn't work, he could've used paraquat—that stuff worked better than any poison.

But now—

"Yah!"

Chu Yunyi shouted. His speed increased as he circled the Gluttony Leader's head in one complete loop!

The next moment,

Chu Yunyi raised his saber with his right hand and plunged it into the Gluttony Leader's brain, using it as a pivot.

He braced himself with both legs.

A fulcrum appeared in an instant. Chu Yunyi pulled downward, prying the Gluttony Leader's skull open.

Boom!

The enormous skull flew up and crashed down at one end of the warehouse.

Seeing this,

Chu Yunyi leaped into the brain and swung his saber.

But to his astonishment, the Gluttony patient was still struggling fiercely, intent on swallowing him whole.

Boom!

The Gluttony Leader reached for him, a hand as big as a mountain bearing down.

Chu Yunyi ducked out of the way.

But the Gluttony Leader seemed slow to realize what was happening. It kept feeling around for Chu Yunyi, stirring its own brain into a bloody mess.

The more it searched, the itchier its head became.

"Eat!"

The Gluttony Leader shouted incoherently, on the verge of collapsing.

Seeing this,

Chu Yunyi hurriedly delivered the final blow. Otherwise, it wouldn't count toward the Round Table's Control Power, and that would be a real pain.

Boom!

The Gluttony Leader's body fell to the ground and didn't get back up.

To make sure it wasn't playing dead, Chu Yunyi struck it a few more times. He only left after confirming it was truly dead.

There was no helping it. This had almost become a habit.

He couldn't stand the old trope of "failing to finish the enemy off, only to get killed in a counterattack."

An'Dashi No. 1 High School, Dragon Country.

Boys' dormitory.

"Damn it!!!! Why do I have to do homework after being reborn?!" a boy yelled in frustration as he bent over his desk, trying to finish his assignments...

The boy across from him smiled without a word, a sharp golden glint flashing in his eyes.

There were four people in the dorm.

Two had gone out to eat, and another was doing homework.

It was Sunday, and the dorm was open as usual.

At high schools like this, students usually had classes six days a week, with evening study on Sundays as well.

And now—

One of them was a Reborn person. His grades hadn't been great in his previous life, but through hard work, he'd at least managed to get himself a thirty-year mortgage and a twenty-year car loan.

It hadn't been ideal, but at least he'd had a house and a car, with a lovely wife by his side.

But now—

He'd gone straight back to square one and was stuck finishing his homework...

"Something's wrong... Where did things go off track?"

"Wasn't a Reborn person supposed to take advantage of future knowledge, defy fate, marry a rich beauty, and reach the pinnacle of life?!" The Reborn person's roommate suddenly realized.

But his pen kept moving.

His fear of the homeroom teacher was etched into his soul. If he failed to finish his homework, contacting his parents would be the least of his worries.

For some reason,

this was a major threat to the Reborn person.

"Tsk, are there any promising trends lately?"

"Shanggu Great Wall's stock will be worth 17 billion more in a month, all because a little girl said something and it went viral..."

"And that milk tea brand that mocked the Japanese? Its stock price went up four hundred times! It hit the daily limit!"

"I never used to know much about stocks, but now I get it... Good news really does make prices go up."

"Wait..."

"If I want enough money to live comfortably in my next life, I'll need at least three million in starting capital..."

"Three million? Where the hell am I supposed to get that..."

The Reborn person's roommate kept writing furiously, but his mind was racing.

Seeing his roommate grow flustered, trying to finish his homework while racking his brain, the golden-eyed boy in the upper bunk smiled and teased him:

"Don't worry. I'm actually a wish-granting sprite who offers equal exchanges."

"Three million, in exchange for ten years of your life. Deal?"

Hearing the golden-eyed boy, the Reborn person's roommate didn't even look up before replying, "Deal. If I live to eighty-five, losing ten years means I'll still make it to seventy-five."

"Those ten years at the end are the years when you're old. Losing them means ten fewer years of suffering."

"Besides,"

"that money's like earning eight thousand three hundred a month without working. I could just have fun every day. How great is that?"

"If I got a job, where else could I earn eight thousand a month without working?"

The Reborn person's roommate answered without seeming to think much about it.

Hearing that reply,

the golden-eyed boy smiled and tapped on his phone a couple of times.

But then he froze. After a pause, he said, "Wait... your rural credit union card has a daily limit of fifty thousand."

Ding.

The Reborn person's roommate saw the notification, picked up his phone, and stared at it.

He found that another fifty thousand yuan had appeared in his bank account!

"Ah! What the—You're serious?!" the Reborn person's roommate exclaimed, staring at the golden-eyed boy and finding him increasingly unfamiliar.

"Why?"

"Didn't you say ten years for three million? Your card has a limit."

"I'll transfer you fifty thousand every day until you've got the full amount in two months."

The Reborn person's roommate was incredulous, but he quickly came to his senses and dropped to his knees in gratitude:

"Father, I am forever in your debt!"

"I'll serve you like an ox or a horse in my next life!"

With that,

the Reborn person's roommate picked up the workbook on his desk and hurled it to the floor! He even snapped his pen in two!

Give him money, and who'd bother going through high school all over again?

"Woohoo!!" The Reborn person's roommate ran out of the dorm with his phone, without even looking back. He left the school too, and the security guard hadn't even caught sight of him.

But then,

a ball of golden light circled around the golden-eyed boy's hand before he slowly absorbed it into his body.

"Oh~ The accumulation of both life span and money has been doubled."

"What should I do next?" The golden-eyed boy's eyes shifted, and an air of shrewd calculation spread around him.

But as soon as he finished speaking,

a silent door opened, and a figure stepped through.

Picking up where the golden-eyed boy had left off, the newcomer said softly:

"What should you do?"

"Come over here and die." Chu Yunyi glanced at the only person in the room.

He—

that golden-eyed boy—was the last of the Seven Deadly Sins leaders: the Gluttony Leader!

Seeing Chu Yunyi appear out of nowhere, the golden-eyed boy wasn't particularly surprised.

He was reclining on the bed,

propping his chin up with one hand as he spoke casually. "Hey, don't go throwing around words like 'live' and 'die.'"

"Let's talk."

"Everything comes down to profit. You haven't spared me because the price wasn't high enough."

"Make me an offer, Mr. Chu."