My Measurement: The Villain Desires a Satisfying Payback

Thanks to the massive betting culture at the Fighting Festival, I no longer had to worry about the funding for my future plans.

There were numerous physical locations where I secretly hid caches of valuables, but the vast majority of my wealth was held in several bank accounts I own at Mochizuki Banking Company.

The aggregate sum of all my assets comes to roughly $20.6 billion.

I think that now, I could call myself within the top 50 richest men, no? Of course, I did not make my wealth publicly known and I do not plan to do so quite yet, so my name isn't officially going to be on the list, but I'll be up there for sure.

After the Fighting Festival in Auriga, two of my primary goals have been completed. Those were:

1. Acquire enough private wealth to fund all future plans without concern.

2. Make myself known in the eyes of the global populace.

As for the second goal, I did not care whether it was in a positive or negative light, but it ended up being the latter.

That made things easier, though.

Becoming famous by doing negative things was easier than by doing positive things, and no matter how bad a person's actions are, there will always be some people standing on that person's side.

Furthermore, if a person is already at rock bottom, they can only go up and become more popular, whereas a person who is at the top positively can only go further and further down―they get criticised for the tiniest mistake and weighed down by their fame.

In short, positive fame restricts freedom and is easy to destroy, whereas negative infamy isn't restrained by any of that nonsense.

Thus, soon, it will be time for Phase Two.

In regards to that, I will have to wait a little while first. If I make a move too soon, not only will the government come after me before the Wardens can call them off, but 'something else' might spring up.

The Order should have their surprise ready soon, too.

Though the pig guy and the whole Colosseum it seemed was under their control, my presence there must have certainly come as a surprise.

Still, although it is the same organisation behind it, the two events will be unrelated, so the timing shouldn't be affected unless they arbitrarily change their mind.

In the meantime, as we wait for the show to begin, I suppose I shall...

The twins are training their Supernatural Abilities in the underground bunker.

Emir is being trained by Minami to be a "proper businessman" in her office.

...Hm.

I don't know anyone else.

I suppose I could... Read a book? I haven't done that since school closed... But, there's no reason for me to read a book.

Oh, wait, that's right! School... It's summer, but I'm pretty sure they're done rebuilding what's been damaged from the toilet incident.

The exams and lessons were unnecessary, but the other stuff was nice. I didn't socialise much, but it's not like I never talked to anyone, so I'm sure it wouldn't be strange if I decided to get in contact all of a sudden...

In fact, didn't they once tell me to install that social media app? That Swiftchat or something, I remember them saying in the first semester about a class group chat.

They asked me what my "at" was or something, but I don't have the app, so I didn't know what it was. Apparently, it's actually an @, called at sign, and it works like a name.

I think it would be easier to just assign each user a number and call that their @ instead of creating a name that can be easily faked and is just unnecessary in general, but I suppose it's just yet another overlooked flaw in the concept of names.

There were infinite numbers, after all, so you would have enough for everyone on the planet even after giving every single person a unique number to distinguish themselves, but there are not infinite names.

That is why confusion occurs, and even with the addition of surnames and middle names, there are still many people around the world with identical names―living proof of the flaw.

In any case, one of the restrictions on making this 'username' was that you couldn't use just numbers for some reason, but oh well.

Of course, I already had an account on this social media app, Swiftchat; it was the one I used to contact Minami, '@Truthseeker_09'. The origin of that username was rather simple:

'Truthseeker' came from my possession of the Measurement of Truth, and '09' was merely a random number I was forced to add as one of the account creation requirements.

However, for obvious reasons, that was an account I couldn't use if I wanted to contact my classmates.

So, I have to make a new one.

I thought about it briefly, but since the goal of the account was straightforward―to contact my classmates―I eventually came to the conclusion that there really was no need to go that deep into thought for it.

[Account successfully created!]

[User: Oscar Itou (Oscar_Itou1)

Posts: 0

Following: 0

Followers: 0]

There we go. Again, they forced me to add a number to it, but other than that, the name was exactly the one I used when starting to attend school.

Finally, I set my profile picture to a random photo in my gallery that I saw had my face in it.

This way, they would know without a doubt that I am who I am.

I searched up the names of the people in my class and sent them friend requests. Or, is it a follow request? I don't know for sure, but after fifteen minutes most of them added me back and I received a direct message.

[🌸Izumi~♪🌸: Heya~! You're the same Oscar Itou from class right? So, I see you finally decided to install the app! You don't understand how long everyone's been waiting for this day haha~ I'll add you to the group chat in a sec!]

Oh, my.

That was fast.

Less than 30 seconds must have passed before I received another notification.

[You have been added to the group '🎉🎉🎉:D 2-B FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FU-'!]