The more they oppose, the more it shows that I am doing the right thing

"So did you guys end up getting a refund?"

After exiting the Seven Gods Hall, having sent Luo Xiaohei home, the trio from the border strolled along the perimeter of Champs-Elysees Lake. Sparkling ripples danced on the crystal-clear lake, while the crisp morning air shook the white walnut trees on both banks, casting lush, light green shadows that mingled with the sky’s reflection at the center of the lake.

An Su stretched and asked Lister and Arthur out of curiosity.

Ever since Arthur and Lister had uttered the shocking words "each of us gets a hundred thousand" they were taken away by the Priest alone, and An Su was left unaware of the ensuing developments.

"In a way, yes, the refund was successful,"

Lister and Arthur said as much, but there wasn’t a hint of joy on their faces.

Dark green tree shadows draped across their cheeks, layering deep and darker shades.

"By the way, where did you get the money to do four draws?"

An Su turned to another issue. That was, after all, a hundred thousand Gold Coins per person. Even for An Su himself, it wasn’t that he didn’t have the money; it was just that carrying ten thousand Gold Coins was simply too heavy to transport easily.

If he could barely come up with that sum, it was even less likely for the Sun and Moon Families, who kept a tighter grip on their finances.

"...Applied for a student loan from the Alchemical Church on the spot. Pay it back in a month, at a ten percent interest rate."

The two of them said with conviction,

"It was a nude loan, too."

The Alchemical Church has gone insane with nude loans??

Is this something the Orthodox Church would do?

An Su’s face was a mess of lines; although Bishop Morgan had mentioned that loans were available, An Su hadn’t imagined they would keep up with the times to this extent. Campus nude loans were coming out, no wonder the Alchemical Church of the new era, under Bishop Morgan’s leadership, had abandoned the old ways of using mercury and secret stones for Alchemy, embraced the knowledge of the new era, and rolled out the new era of lending Alchemy.

Once the loans were given out, interest snowballed, and it was a far quicker way to make money than traditional Alchemy.

Lister, guessing what An Su was thinking by observing his expression and with a constipated look on his face, said, "Actually, I didn’t take the nude loan... It was Arthur who insisted on stripping."

"Sun Knights should be open and aboveboard." Arthur revealed a radiant, sunny smile, her golden hair shimmering brightly.

"..."

An Su looked at the two of them. They were still masquerading as young girls, wearing the skins of Yang Zi and Yue’er, still pop idols. It was entirely reasonable that with their appearance, they could get away with a small loan of a hundred thousand Gold Coins.

As for the mere nude loan, for Arthur, who didn’t hesitate to streak and last time even stuffed her small card everywhere, it could even be considered a reward!

"Do you think.." An Su blinked, "that when it’s time to repay the loan next month, the effects of Merlin’s magic will have worn off, their appearances will revert, and they won’t be able to find you, or even if they do, you could deny any accountability."

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Arthur and Lister said with conviction,

"We also realized that minors could get direct refunds, so we could make them refund the two hundred thousand Gold Coins on the spot, a profit of an extra two hundred thousand!"

Using the Alchemical Church’s loans to buy chances at the Alchemical Church’s lottery, getting direct refunds as minors, cashing out student loans outright, and making an extra twenty-thousand in hard cash on top of four lottery chances. When the loan due in a month was near term, they planned to close the account and run away.

Utterly outrageous, yet their strategy was indeed borne from intelligence, and was even legally protected...

With this scheme, they made a profit of four hundred thousand Gold Coins. An Su marveled at their ingenious mindset, even surpassing the Alchemical Church in money-making schemes. He would have to swipe surveillance cameras in exams, while these two aimed to swipe the entire venue.

Assuming the plan could succeed, but observing Lister and Arthur’s expressions, An Su felt something had gone wrong.

"What did Bishop Morgan do to you?"

An Su saw their expression, which didn’t look like one of successful refund,

"You said you got the refund."

If they had managed to mooch successfully, even turning a massive profit, with their character, they surely would have boasted to him at length.

"The refund was indeed successful,"

Lister and Arthur, faces lined with black and sighing slowly, finally said with grave faces,

—"Bishop Morgan said to have our parents come over after the exam tomorrow."

Their expressions were as if they had just lost a xylophone,

"She personally handed the money back to our dads."

An Su fell silent as well, his pupils quivering intensely. Just hearing the description, he could feel a suffocating empathy. The ultimate tactic of minors against adults is the minor’s refund, and correspondingly, the adults’ ultimate tactic against minors is to call the minors’ parents!

"Parental summons," the deepest, original fear etched into the soul of every minor,

If the terror inflicted by the Mother Goddess of Life rates as a ten, "parental summons" rates as a hundred.

Bishop Morgan, indeed a woman of renown like Merlin, had resorted to such a fearsome Forbidden Technique.

Arthur and Lister’s fathers, one the God of War from the Sun Domain, Annand, who valued knightly honor most, the other the Holy Hand from the Moon Domain, Marquis Norman, who esteemed noble virtues above all, both highly respected and well-known figures. Both fathers, great sticklers for reputation, would travel from the border to the Imperial Capital just to save face. An Su was certain, on the day these two arrived in the Imperial Capital, it would mark the demise of Lister and Arthur!