Chapter 4: Invest In The Landlady Or Die
Theo’s eyes snapped open, a grueling pain twisting in his chest. He shot up, shoulders heaving, and looked around, only to grow confused at finding himself inside his own room.
His hand moved subconsciously to his stomach, then his face. Everything was still intact. His stomach wasn’t torn open, his face wasn’t deconstructed.
However, just now, he’d been certain that Jupiter Lady had slaughtered him, brutally. Refusing to believe he was alright, Theo skittered over to the mirror, the one covered by a thick black cloth. He pulled the cloth off and stared at himself.
He stared at that pale-skinned boy with rough black hair and half-lidded black eyes. His face was average at best, and every so often a pimple breakout made looking in the mirror genuinely awful.
And that boy was fine. Healthy. Like yesterday had been a dream.
’Wait, was it a dream?’
Theo knew it wasn’t. He’d felt that pain too vividly for it to be any dream.
He reached for his phone but couldn’t find it. Nor the clothes he’d worn out — which brought his attention to his lower body.
He had been walking around naked the whole time.
Theo frowned, realizing it.
’Something is wrong....’
Then a banging knock came at his door. Guessing who it probably was, Theo dove for his basket, a heap of dirty clothes, and dug out any short not stiff with dry cum. He couldn’t find one and settled for something black.
Then he darted to the door and yanked it open.
Outside stood a brown-haired woman who looked to be in her late forties. She had a radiant, gorgeous face and an hourglass body, and only the look in her eyes gave her age away.
"Hey, it’s been a week since I gave you the notice. Are you going to pay, or are you going to move out of my house?"
Theo stared at the landlady blankly, then blinked.
’A week?’
"Landlady, can I lend your phone?"
She gave him a creeped-out look and hesitantly brought out her phone.
Theo looked at the date and saw:
23 - 07 - 2045.
It had indeed been a week since he left for that job. He stood frozen, refusing to believe what had happened to him. Somehow he’d been killed by Jupiter Lady, then resurrected right here in his bedroom?
While Theo was still reeling, a new system appeared in front of him.
[Congratulations]
The theme of the system was a gold background with black frames, different from the blue background system he’d got when he awakened.
[You have Awakened A God-Class Investor System]
[Invest your money, time, emotions, actions and shamelessness into a target, to raise their Affection Level and gain massive rewards each time.]
[To Designate A Target For Investment, You Must Meet Certain Conditions]
[First Target has been established]
[You have received your First Quest]
[Discover the Conditions To Unlock Your Landlady’s Investment.]
[Quest Reward: $100,000,000, SSS-Class Swordsmanship, The Indestructible Heavenly Body Script, ???]
[Quest Failure: Death]
Theo stood there, staring at the system and its obnoxious request. He opened and closed his mouth several times.
’How am I supposed to unlock her investment portfolio? What kind of gibberish is this?’
The landlady, who’d been silently observing this schizophrenic dude, finally had enough. She yanked the phone from his hand and retorted with subtle rage.
"I will come back tomorrow, and if by then you are not ready to pay the money, I will kick you out of here."
As she turned to step out, Theo grabbed her hand. Her face flustered, her cheeks going red almost at once.
Shamelessly, without any intro, Theo asked:
"Would you like me to invest in you. We will get good money from it! I won’t even touch you!"
The lady stared at him, confused. The next moment a blow landed on his face, and she tore herself from his grip and stormed off.
Theo stood there, a drop of blood crawling from his nostril.
"Ouch. I guess that was not how to unlock it, huh... it was worth a try though."
Theo turned around and sat on his worn-out ergonomic chair, staring at his monitor.
"Come to think of it, have I ever spoken to ladies, tried to understand them? Back in school, soon as I was done, I ran home to jerk off to her pictures, or generate more pictures."
Theo went silent as the memory of his childhood resurfaced.
His love for Jupiter Lady had started pure. But as he grew into a horny teen, he couldn’t see past the large breasts, the thick thighs beneath those short skirts. And he wanted to see more. And when he began to see more, he desired her in ways he could never have her.
Which led him to become a hardcore Jupiter Lady gooner.
All he’d really wanted, though, was to meet her for real and help her. He’d dedicated his whole life to earning a Managerial Degree just so he could one day assist her.
And the very lady he loved had slaughtered him for it.
But that wasn’t the part that hurt most. It was the fact that he’d seen her sucking off one of the most notorious villains alive — a man who’d terrorized the world and beaten her to a pulp, beaten her so badly she’d dropped from the Heroes rankings. And she’d still knelt down and done it?
Theo gritted his teeth and smashed his PC to the ground. He’d ruined it before the thought caught up with him.
’Hey, I bought that with all the inheritance money my dad left me... I could’ve just... deleted her images, no?’
Already depressed, Theo felt things had somehow gotten worse.
But there was a way out of this. He sighed and summoned the system again, looking at the quest reward.
’A hundred million dollars. That’d easily buy me my own house, maybe even one of those fancy cars. My life would change for real!’
And all he had to do was discover what it meant to unlock the landlady’s Investment.
Theo was silent for a moment. Then he grinned.
’Oh well. Doesn’t sound like I have much of a choice. I need to get stinky rich, and if this is the way, then so be it.’
He got into the shower, found some proper clothes, and left his room, heading for the landlady’s floor.