[201] The Year 1990

"I estimate that I'll be fully recovered by tomorrow when I wake up."

Kazuya looked at the wound on his arm and bandaged it with a bandage.

Diarmuid had already returned to the Throne of Heroes, and the "non-healing" wound he left behind naturally became a healable one.

At the same time, he also wanted to rest. Starting tomorrow, he would begin learning... undoubtedly, it would be healing magecraft.

However, some things needed to be learned from the beginning. He enrolled in a one-month class at the Waver Velvet classroom.

During this month, he would take some time to understand the basics of magecraft.

If the time extended...

Let's not talk about whether he could understand it, first, he needed to consider if he could learn it at all.

For example, science...

Mathematics, physics, chemistry.

These were things anyone could learn, taught in almost every school, with plenty of related information, and easy to obtain with money.

But... how many truly mastered them?

If you didn't like it, you didn't like it.

If you were too lazy to learn, you were too lazy to learn.

Before crossing over, there were family, societal pressures; one had to study the content before university. But now... he just didn't want to study at all! Thinking about those things made his head ache.

On the contrary, magecraft seemed a bit more interesting.

He had some interest in these mysterious things that could be directly used by humans...

He would learn a bit of the basics of magecraft and then see.

...

Time, the most merciless force in the world.

No matter who you are, no matter the reason, it always moves forward, advancing, advancing...

Not too fast, not too slow, the same for everyone. Some lamented the passage of time, while others looked forward to tomorrow.

1989, still a calm year.

Of course, this referred to the magical world, considering it a relatively calm year without any major events.

At the beginning of this year, the reign in Japan changed, and the era changed from Showa to Heisei.

It also marked the end of Japan's rapid development period.

Time also moved on to 1990. In March of this year, Lithuania declared independence, persisting until the end of 1991, completely disintegrating a superpower.

Also from this time, Japan's economic bubble slowly began to burst.

Kazuya, looking at the snow dancing outside the window, exhaled a breath, making the glass even more misty.

"It seems like it's time to start selling... properties and such."

After returning from London, he resumed what he had stopped before, buying houses, loans, mortgages, and then selling houses, loans, and mortgages.

Because he calculated his assets when he was in London and found that his money... wasn't enough.

"The Rainbow Mystic Eyes."

Although he didn't know what kind of Mystic Eyes they were, just because of their level, he really wanted them.

Unfortunately, it was a pity that he wasn't the only one who thought so.

In the magical world, there were quite a few wealthy people, and even in the current world, there were some billionaires who had their eyes on them.

Just the few people Kazuya observed, using the information judged by his Stand abilities, had already placed the bidding price for this Mystic Eye at more than 300 billion dollars.

That person was the Lehrman family.

This mystic eye family.

They planned to mortgage all the mystic code, mystic Eyes, properties, and even the exclusive contract with the Clock Tower. Moreover, they would borrow a large amount of money from familiar people.

He didn't know if there were more extravagant people than this.

For example, in the current world, the truly wealthiest family—the Harwey family.

In the estimates of the Mage's Association, their assets surpassed a quadrillion dollars, specific amounts that were impossible to calculate.

It was several times more extravagant than the Rothschild family in Kazuya's previous life.

Even though their family hadn't completely declined due to the lack of the mystry, they still wielded enormous influence, both in the surface world and the inner world.

Although Kazuya had an A-rank Golden Rule.

But... he found that he seemed to be unable to compete.

Not enough money!

So, he went back to Japan and started the crazy cycle of making money again.

However, it seemed to be coming to an end.

In March of this year, the Japanese government would issue a document to clearly curb this phenomenon. In other words... real estate could no longer be mortgaged and loaned by banks.

Although he didn't know whether this world would advance or delay this action, Kazuya had already given up.

Although money was still far from enough, he could only stop and see if there would be any opportunities in the future.

This was a situation he had never thought about before... he hadn't even thought that the Mystic Eyes Collection Train would actually prepare to auction Mystic Eyes of the "Rainbow" level.

Although it was still some time away from the auction, he needed to try to save money as much as possible. He hoped that he could bid when the time came, whether he could win in a bidding war would be seen later.

He didn't want to lose when thinking that others had (drawn) it and he hadn't (drawn) it.

It felt uncomfortable in his heart.

Knock, knock, knock—

"Come in."

Kazuya slightly emptied his heart, in any case, let's save money later. When the time comes, try to bid as much as possible, and see if you can win the bidding war.

"Yes, President." Hideaki Anno pushed open the door and seemed a bit excited: "The final episode of JoJo Part 1 is finished, do you want to watch it?"

"Of course!" Kazuya slapped the table: "Bring it over quickly!"

Now, only in the process of producing anime and manga could he completely forget about these things...

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