I Went Back In Time With A Money Multiplier System

2. Eighteenth Birthday

Adrian put all the dollar bills in his pocket and sat down on his bed as he saw a new notification appear in his system screen. 

[Required Data Extracted. Creating Quest for the User.]

[Quest Created.]

[Status]

Name: Adrian Wolfe

Money: Unknown

Skills: None

Shop: $1,000,000 to unlock

Quest: Get an admission in a university and pay the tuition f*e upfront.

Quest Reward: Special Crypto account with access to a new Crypto coin. Crypto Coin’s value will be stable at 1 Coin = 1 Dollar

“Well, I was going to do it anyways.” Adrian muttered softly before he took out his phone from his pocket. It had a cracked screen that still worked. 

He went through the universities available near his city and checked their tuition fees along with the minimum grades required. 

The filtering process was easy and he found a few universities that did not have much requirement for grades. As long as one had enough money or took the required loans, they could get into them.

“Hmm I guess I’ll go with one of these two since they’re the closest.” he muttered as he closed his phone and walked out of his room. 

As he walked down the stairs, he could hear the whole family talking in hushed voices but he didn’t bother going in there and poking his nose. 

Instead, he silently walked out of the house and headed straight to a cozy diner nearby. On his way, he clicked on his screen when no one was watching, on his system’s name. 

As soon as he did, a new window popped out. 

[Money Multiplier System: At midnight, all the money you’ve spent during the past 24 hours will be doubled.]

Rules: 

1) Only the money that is “spent” will be doubled.

2) Money given to someone for nothing in return will be considered as a donation and it will not be counted as a “spend”

3) Borrowed money, loans and credit will not be counted towards the multiplication. 

4) Money Spent on Gambling is Invalid.

5) Refunded Money will not be counted towards multiplication.

6) Only Valid purchases will be considered.

7) System Shop Purchases are special and the money spent in it will not be considered for multiplication.

“That’s a lot of rules but it doesn’t really push back my plans much. It’s not like I was planning on gambling anyways.” he muttered as he read through the rules. 

“Basically, I have to buy something to get the money multiplied. Understood.” 

With a new understanding of his abilities, he looks at the diner in front of him. It had a nice vibe with soft music playing inside. 

It was a place his mother always used to take him during his childhood, a place that he loved until the end of his past life.

“If I remember right, Uncle Franco is out on a vacation so his son is taking care of the business right now.” he said softly and shook his head. 

The restaurant’s owner’s son was a good for nothing man who only cared about women. The month’s business was surely going to be in a downwards trend.

Still, Adrian walked in as he just couldn’t say no to nostalgia. 

Once he sat down on a table, a waitress walked over and looked him up and down. The look of judgement was hard to hide so Adrian couldn’t help but look at himself. 

He was wearing a stretched out sweater that had multiple square patches on areas where it had holes in the past. 

As someone who barely got any money to buy things for himself, he had to make do with the things he already owned. 

‘Right.. I forgot about my appearance.’ he thought and sighed softly before looking up at the waitress who was waiting for his order. 

“I’ll take a small cake along with some mac and cheese. I’d like some extra cheese on mine. I’ll also take a glass of blueberry lemonade.” 

The waitress nodded and was just about to leave when she suddenly frowned, “I don’t mean to be rude but this whole thing will cost you twenty dollars.”

“I know. I’m a regular.” Adrian said with a smile, to which the waitress immediately straightened her back in response before she headed over to the kitchen. 

A few minutes later, he saw her bring out his mac and cheese along with the cake while the owner’s son walked behind her with a large glass of blueberry lemonade.

Just as they were on their way to his table, Adrian saw a guy walk into the store and behind him was a girl he recognised. 

“Sofia…” he muttered softly as he watched them grab a table on the other side of the restaurant. The girl sat with her back to him. 

Sofia was a girl whom he had a crush on since the age of fourteen and in his past life, she had suddenly ghosted him almost a month from his eighteenth birthday. 

She was someone who led him on, made him buy her art supplies for four years and talked sweet, making him fall for her even harder. Only to ghost him at the end. 

‘I’m not going to waste my time on her. Not in this life.’ he thought as he smiled at the waitress when she put his food on the table. 

He put the candle into his small cake and lit it up before closing his eyes.

  

“Mom… life has been hard ever since you left me. I would have suffered for twenty more years but it looks like I got another chance. I’ll turn my life around and I’ll make you proud so keep looking at me from above. I miss you, mom.”

He then opened his eyes and wiped off the slight wetness pooling up in his eyes before he blew the candle and ate his food.

Thirty minutes later, he walked out of the restaurant and headed into a convenience store where he spent the remaining of his thirty dollars on a data plan.

‘Time to wait for midnight now.’