I Opened a Restaurant in Honkai

"I saw how harmoniously you were getting along and thought this was a plan you'd come up with yourselves after failing to get by, that you'd contacted them through some channels. Didn't we used to pull this sort of thing all the time?"

That was true. They used to do things like that all the time, all just to make a living.

But this wasn't that!

"Anti-Entropy's finances are about to collapse. We're relying entirely on playing games to stay afloat. We make less than two hundred thousand a week—barely a drop in the bucket for an organization."

Tesla shook her head. "The Anti-Entropy here means our Anti-Entropy. Cocolia controls the Mikoyan Design Bureau, and all the money she makes from selling weapons goes into forbidden experiments. We never even got our hands on the money before it was spent."

"..."

It should not have come to this.

Since the last century, Anti-Entropy had been searching for new sources of income. They had once relied on Edison's inheritance, while General Company's vast number of patents brought in enormous profits... but that had been decades ago.

Now, those patents had been replaced by new technologies, and the rest were expiring one after another. The days of lying back and collecting money were gone forever.

"Can't you develop something new?"

Walter asked helplessly.

"Easy for you to say! Patents that bring in massive profits have to be found in the civilian sector. The cutting-edge robots I build don't even make as much money as some stupid automatic sunflower-seed-cracking machine. Where am I supposed to get money?"

That was true. Anti-Entropy's frontier theories were far ahead, and Tesla was the only one with an engineering background. If even she could not make money, then they probably really could not make any.

What now?