“(I will find out how you are, even if I have to use desperate measures, I will not hesitate to do so. I have to know if you are my enemy or if you are my ally. If in any case you are somehow trying to fool me, I will make you regret ever even thinking about it, mark my simple words. However, if you truly are just a simple young lady then, I will make you my ally. Even if you are not special at all, gifted at anything, just your average young lady, I will still not mind to call you friend.)”

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  One by one, the students try to solve the test, but each one of them fails to do so. More than thirty of them have tried to and somehow even though they had 15 minutes to do so, they all failed in 40 minutes. What happened? What the hell happened to them? It seems I was a little too focused on Myra that we have missed what happened to those students. Seriously, in the span of 40 minutes close to thirty students have failed and mind you, each one of them had 15 minutes to complete the test. Whatever, got what they deserved I guess but now it’s Kiana's turn and of course, she has quite the worried look on her face. She’s more than confused to what she needs to do and while her mind is going berserk trying to figure out a way to do anything, the other students aren’t too happy about the results.

  “How in tarnation did this happen!? How did we fail!? There were so many of us and yet… No one was able to solve it!”

  Extremely Arrogant Female Student- It’s quite simple! It’s all because you are a bunch of idiots! I only failed because you idiots wouldn’t shut up!

  Rude Student- What are you on about!? You failed in less than a minute! That was the fastest one from all of us! You’re the one that is an idiot!

  Cocky Student- Ah, shut up! Like you did any better than her! And also, you can’t do math! You used the stocks in the wrong way that’s why you failed.

  Rude Student- What? You also failed, so shut up! Like I can’t do math… And I use the stocks in the best way possible! I was the one that got the closest to the target! What are you on about!?

  “Enough! There still is someone that still has to take the test. I present to you, our saviour!”

  This guy... Seriously, Kiana should just punch him in his face, you know? A simple and yet precise jab, right between his eyes. Whatever, once again this is more than enough to call the attention of everyone there towards Kiana, who still looks beyond confused.

  Extremely Arrogant Female Student- Her? Really? Do you really think that village girl can solve it? Actually, wasn’t she supposed to leave? At least that was what she said, right? Let me guess, the sight of our Miss Roosevelt made her mind change?

  Rude Student- Who knows, she’s the last one and somehow none of us passed this test, that still is a fact. I more than doubt she will be able to come close to half of the half of the requirement, but either way, once she has failed this is over. Oh well, we always have next year, right?

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  I see, it seems they have no remorse or anything of that sort even after failing, it is almost as if this failure has done nothing to them. Is this not that important to them? Why did they even bother to take the test then? Who knows, just a bunch of idiots doing idiotic stuff. Moving on, Kiana is right in front of the test and of course, she still has no clue what to do. This is beyond anything she has seen before, but let me explain it first as otherwise we will be just like her, clueless.

  The concept is rather simple, nothing so complex that only those with intelligence above 200 IQ or some like can solve this. In this test, puzzle should describe it better, you simply have to start a business and at the end of 7 days, you have to make a profit and have 100k gold in the “bank”. Each player will start with 100k gold. The player will be able to choose the place of his business, what he wants to sell, the number of employers and so on, basically everything that you might need to start and keep a business running.

  The areas that are available are three and of course the prices will vary between them, the most expensive one for example will have the most customers not only that, they will also pay the most. The same applies with the employers, the expensive ones can handle more customers over the day while the cheapest ones can handle less. The more expensive the furniture is, the more customers will attract and so on. Basically, the more money you spend, the more you will make back. Though the problem lies in making a profit and having 100k gold at the end of the week. This is where everyone has failed, some were extremely close, while others failed to even make a profit and some even had 100k gold at the end but since they never made a profit, they ended up failing. To add even more depth to this puzzle, there is a mechanism where the price of what you sell varies from day to day, though there is a “help page” to guide you on what the prices will be for the next day.

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  Ah, well, that can explain Kiana's confusion. I did forget to mention the most important part about this puzzle. The puzzle is on a computer, it’s basically a computer game, but for someone like Kiana who has never seen a computer to begin off, this might just be something akin to fantasy, and the “Projecting that image” that she referred to is the monitor. However, it really seems the goddess of luck is on her side as the merchant teacher does notice her troubles and offers to help out. He will mainly do what she wants on the computer for her but that is more than enough.

  Kiana- Erm, I’m so sorry about this but I have no clue how to use this thing…

  Merchant Teacher- Haha! Don’t worry about it, the objective of this test is to see and know whether you can solve it or not, not the fact that you don’t know how to use a computer. After all, not all of us have the same financial abilities, what truly matters is what’s inside of this! That is what I want to know how it works!

  He points to his head, as he says this. How one thinks, how one sees what’s in front of him, how one solves the problem and so on. Though he’s right, one of the most important parts that a human being has is the brain, not only said part makes everything on the body work the way it is supposed to work, it also allows us to achieve great things. Medicine, magic, education and so on, everything that you see was made by a human being. Yes, magic is different, but all of these spells, who do you think have discovered them? At the end of the day the strongest attribute a human being has is our intellect. Anyway, enough yapping, before she did anything she asked the teacher for some papers and a pen, it seems she wants to take some notes. He does give her everything that she asked for and he does so with a smile on his face. A little bit weird, I don’t know how to feel about that. Humph, Kiana is mine, you hear me? Of course, he can’t and why did I say this?

  Yes, this is way too soon brother, she still hasn’t taken me out for dinner yet.