I Became a Stalker in a Yandere Dating Sim

2. You have received 1 billion

In sudden shock, I instantly carried the laptop to the desk and switched it on.

With a pop sound, instead of the Windows startup screen….

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We have received all of your precious opinions!

As per your advice, we have adjusted it to facilitate smooth gameplay from ‘Rokseo’s’ perspective!

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A mail screen sent by the guy who sent me here, boasting his advanced technology, opened up.

What’s funny is that it was just a read-only webpage with no reply or feedback function.

Those guys who used to pretend to communicate while promoting their DLCs, always emphasizing the importance of communication with users– was this their style?

And they adjusted it so that smooth gameplay is possible?

“… Since when did smooth gameplay come to mean being transferred to another body?”

When did we start calling possession smooth gameplay? Instead of telling us to buy additional DLC, they could have made a lot of money from those crazy for wealth.

I was so dumbfounded that I couldn’t even get angry and just dumbly gaped.

Moreover, I just ambiguously asked them to make the difficulty level a little harder, what’s with employing me?

After getting possessed, at least I could clearly understand the circumstances.

Considering they sent my laptop and an email, they must be guys with some kind of conscience, right? It seems that a bit of fur has grown on that conscience of theirs.

I lowered the touchpad on my laptop and scrolled down.

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In addition, as per your request to increase the difficulty level in various ways, we have dramatically increased the difficulty level in multiple ways!

The moment you read this email, the massive difficulty increase will start!

Below are the changes made due to the increased difficulty level!

1. Your current balance will be converted to debt with a minus (-) sign in front!

2. All items that originally existed in the inventory are not transferable for cash!

3. The difficulty level is raised from the existing highest level, ‘Cardiac Arrest’, to a new level known as [Heartbreak]!

4. To ensure diverse gameplay, ‘Rokseo’ has been given {Heartbeat(心搏數) Addiction}!

5. All the information for smooth gameplay will be transferred via the laptop you currently have, along with the ‘Status Window’!

Changes will start in 20 seconds….

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Whether the bastards have mastered the extremes of unilateral communication.

Even without fully scrolling down, the screen was automatically lowered and some adjustments went ahead on their own.

“Why now of all the times…!! Besides, don’t touch my money!!!”

Despite shaking my laptop violently.

The countdown filled the large screen, like launching a nuclear missile. No, surely it must be worse than a nuclear missile.

“No way!! Does a debt of 1 billion make sense, you crazy bastards!!!”

Even if hit by a nuclear missile, it would just kindly send me off, but if I get hit by this, I’d end up with a debt of 1 billion.

I never dreamed that the difficulty increase, which I had wanted so badly, I would actually face after being transferred.

I guess it was my fault that I told them to increase the difficulty level once a day.

But why it has to be now of all times and the creation of a debt! I’d rather just be killed.

However, I can’t just get hit like this, so putting aside the other doubts.

The moment I was about to obliterate the laptop using the still unfamiliar time-stopping ability or the power that messed up space earlier.

A blue thread right in front of my eyes caught my attention, and the laptop flickered.

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Changes due to danger detection are immediately implemented!

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A notification popped up onscreen, a bold debt number flashing white before my eyes: a nuclear missile’s worth of debt had launched.

“Damn it…!!!”

Engulfed by the blinding light of debt, I passed out.

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You’ve received 1 billion.

“… one, two, three, four, five zeros… nine in total. Damn, a negative 1 billion?”

And it’s in the negatives.

A sum vastly beyond what my friends occasionally borrow.

When I regained consciousness from the white light attack, both the internet banking on my smartphone and my account balance on my laptop indicated the same.

Both read -1,000,000,000 exactly.

Never in my life had I had a debt of this magnitude. I slapped myself on the forehead in frustration. For goodness’ sake!

“Hold on, they snatched 2 billion from me! hahahahaha, that’s hilarious.”

Originally, this character had some money, just 1 billion, but now the balance was -1 billion. What a dastardly situation.

I wouldn’t have incurred such karma if I hadn’t clicked on the Turtle Ship raid button in my last life.

All I did was complete the heart attack mode devised by the game developer. And yet, everyday, I had asked them to provide me with new difficulties.

They ignored me primarily, but they’ve tacked on a substantial amount of debt, presenting it as a newfound challenge. Heck yeah, I’m screwed over!

I did request the developer to increase the game’s difficulty, but this is too damn harsh!

They dumped a debt of billions onto me, so yeah, I’m screwed.

“Sigh… at this rate, fishing seems to be the only way out.”

A foreign fishing boat sprang to mind, and as if my nonexistent anemia had kicked in, nausea consumed my vision.

Bitcoins don’t turn negative, but the price of this in-game currency plummeted through the floor.

“The only silver lining is that no interest is added until I graduate from the academy…”

Despite a disheartening sigh escaping my lips, I incessantly refreshed the page, staring at -1 billion, tainted with a disgusting mark.

Due to the educational benefits at the Awakener’s Academy, the debt didn’t accrue any interest.

In this context, graduating from the academy wasn’t the end.

Depending on which route you took at graduation, an entirely new story unfolded.

Therefore, the priority was paying off the debt before graduation.

Since I reincarnated not as the protagonist himself, but as the guy who stalks the heroines, I had no idea where the story would go. It was crucial to eliminate as many unknowns as possible.

In that case, my duties were clear.

“Earn money by either hunting or obtaining scholarships, then put that money into investments.”

The goal was to amass as much money as possible using this cycle and pay off the debt before graduation.

The difficulty level had skyrocketed from ‘Heart Attack,’ the highest difficulty level, to ‘Heart Break,’ a terrifyingly difficult level.

The storyline, which portrayed the world as doomed anyhow, flowed in the same direction across all routes.

To be in debt to the tune of -1 billion when all government funds amounted to a mere 1 billion was an absolute disaster.

Therefore, it is crucial to pay off the debt wisely and multiply the money as much as possible…

“So the quickest way to multiply money is through stocks, right?”

I recalled a few stocks that could disrupt the investment difficulty level in this game.

The first was a stock of a secretive company, ‘Fall of Gyeongcheon,’ set up by villains who ruled the underworld. It went public just before the mid-term exam of the first semester of Academy Year 1.

Secondly, there was the stock of a guild named ‘The God’s Grace.’ It was currently at rock bottom, ran by people worshipping Satan in secret.

I didn’t know how both would be linked to me in the future, but they definitely promised to be a solid source of money.

“Alright then, I’ll earn money, invest in these two stocks… is it time to prepare for hunting now?”

One of the adjustment conditions clearly stated ‘All items initially in the inventory cannot be traded for cash!’.

In other words, there was something in my inventory.

An icon shaped like a nine-square grid at the bottom of my laptop screen was bouncing impatiently, asking to be clicked.

Hoping for something useful to be inside, I clicked on the icon that obviously seemed to be the inventory.

“!? What the heck, isn’t this the inventory of the protagonist I used to play??”

I found my inventory jam-packed with valuable items.

The problem was that only the items I had initially in the ‘consumable’ inventory remained.

Sadly, there weren’t farming-grade ultimate equipment or artifacts.

Only cameras with powerful lenses, presumably used for stalking heroines, were in the inventory.

Knowing for a fact that they would contain compromising pictures of heroines, I immediately dragged them all into the trash bin.

“It’s a shame that I only have these things left as equipment. But at least I hit the jackpot with these potions.”

Surely, ultimate recovery potions filling the top, ‘Elixirs of Gods.’

And ultimate buff items like ‘Abyss Touch’ are plentiful, hence it’s not a bad state.

Of course, consumable items have certain attribute requirements, so they can’t just be used recklessly.

Perhaps at what seems like the beginning now, I can only freely use basic potions like ‘Healing Potion.’

But, consumables are not just potions.

“…Wha, what! Enhancement materials, scripts, and contracts!!”

Consumable materials for strengthening weapons or characters themselves, scripts for learning skills or traits or the basics of the body, even contracts to summon or call something!

I clapped my hands above my head in ecstasy.

I was able to sigh in relief as I expressed my overwhelming gratitude to the goddess of fortune that might exist somewhere.

After all, I was the scumbag who, even in the original work, was such a notorious stalker that my reputation was shattered like cheap offal.

In a situation where I couldn’t get help from others.

On top of being hopelessly in debt, with an insanely escalating difficulty, I was considering seriously checking the water level of the Han River.

However, my consumables inventory was filled with things I’ve accumulated with care like my own children.

Is this why fathers are strong? Anyway.

Swallowing my cheer of ecstasy, I scrolled down and discovered it.

“There it is… Crazy script… ‘Unsurpassable Body’!”

A worn-out script written as 無越肢體(Unsurpassable Body) in white on a black book.

A script earned from viewing the hidden ending of ‘Heart Attack,’ the greatest difficulty in the original game.

While it was a pain in the ass to get, the description of its effects was remarkable.

Unsurpassable Body enables one to surpass any stage with effort,

Providing an infinite growth potential to even overcome stages that are not existing in the world.

In the original game, it completely resolves the limitations of use, awakening, skill acquiration, trait acquiration, and even acquiration coefficient!

However, he needed to meet a demanding usage requirement along with considerable penalties to use this.

“The requirement was clear that at least 4 attribute values had to be under 10. Also, the acquired skills and traits had to be less than or equal to one?”

The requirement was devastating, considering the average hero’s attribute values were around 40-50, and typically started with about 6 skills and traits.

The funny thing was that Rockser met the condition and was able to use it.

In other words, it meant that he couldn’t use any of the other scripts which require a certain high level.

“At that point, he couldn’t learn anything else anyway.”

But all others turned out to be unusable, probably because the attribute values were terrible, to begin with.

Well, with time and space-related abilities that could stop time and erase objects, there was no need to improve physical abilities.

Unless you wanted to conquer the world, you wouldn’t need any other skills or traits.

Rockser had no other interest but stalking his heroines, to begin with.

“But he still was extremely tricky.”

However, this bastard was more challenging than any other foe I met in the original game.

Being so weak that he met the condition for ‘Unsurpassable Body,’ he consumed one-fourth of my playtime.

According to the game’s statistics, I was the only one who caught this guy at ‘Heart Attack’ difficulty.

That means I could bear the penalty that came with learning Unsurpassable Body.

“Although the result of learning this means you can’t learn any other scripts, and attributes only grow through training, which is a huge penalty…”

It’s worth it; actually, choosing Unsurpassable Body might even be the best choice.

Although the growth speed of the Unsurpassable Body,

Is considerably slower than the heroes who start with characteristic traits such as ‘Sword Saint’ from the start.

But with enough effort, one can reach beyond the brink of the abyss,

And overcome the insurmountable walls and even those that were not known to exist.

Now, with the insane difficulty increase, it genuinely is the best choice.

The more we proceed, the more powerful the enemies will become, hence I too must reach an extraordinary level.

From the beginning, ‘Rokser’s spatial and temporal abilities ultimately required the use of my physical body.

It was crucially important to physically develop myself to a high level.

“To prepare for the future, even if it’s slower, acquiring transcendent body art is the right thing to do.”

Even if we start slow and low, it’s good for my future as we can scale immensely high due to the benchmark being low.

Good thing too, there’s a contract to cover the initial poor growth and a hole that punched through to the underground in my wallet.

“‘Contract of Colorless Abyss,’ so you gave it when it saw the hidden ending in the ‘Heart-attack Mode’?”

A contract that fluctuates between opaque and transparent.

It exhausts mana or stamina to summon the best weapon I can use right now and

the top-tier armor I can equip from the abyss randomly.

Though the armaments and defensive gear have the downside of continually sucking up mana and stamina.

Given my current situation, where the only equipment I have is a cannon-like camera I dumped in the junk slot earlier, I really need luck.

At this point, there was no better option.

Having to save money and invest due to debt, there was no money to buy weapons.

But I can use top-rated weapons and equipment in my current state even if it uses some mana and stamina!

This is not like a debtor driving three Porsches, Anyway.

I should have materials to upgrade things I got from the low-level rewards and contracts.

If well-executed, it may increase the growth speed and drastically reduce mana or stamina consumption.

“Then let’s get some work done?”

Clicked on ‘transcend body art’ and the ‘Contract of the Colorless Abyss’ to use them and

After doing all the upgrades, I could do with the enhancement materials right now…

“Status window.”

After hours of work, I called up the status window.

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Name: Rokser

[First Awakening]

『Status

Strength: 5 – Endurance: 5

Stamina: 5 – Speed: 5

Sense: 5 – Energy: 112

Body: ◆Transcendent Body Art[Growth Type][Growth Speed: Grade C]』

『Unique Skill: ◆Time-Space Manipulation[Growth Type][? Grade]』

『Reputation: Energy overflown Stalker』

『Skill: *Needs Acquiring』

『Trait: {Addiction to Heartbeat}』

『Engraving: ◆Colorless Abyss[Growth Type]』

『Equipment: Need Summoning or Equipping』

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But there seems to be quite a few oddities.

No, looking again, it seems a lot of strange contents mixed in.

What’s with all five main abilities, each being 5??

What’s with this energy status existing that isn’t magic or stamina?

Moreover, this insane stalker bastard energy is 112 to be exact!

Really to the point where this bastard has to report voluntarily to the police.

The energy overflows to an extent where I should call the cops.

No doubt about the 112 bastard who has wallpapered his house with the lewd photos of heroines because stalking them wasn’t enough.

… In other words, what that bastard used when fighting heroines and me was energy…. So what the hell was he using when he fought in the main story?…?

“I feel totally disgusting….”

Now I have to use the energy…. And to add fuel to the fire, my reputation is an energy overflow stalker.

In other words, the bastard has been stalking while ranting about energy in front of others.

Right, perhaps vigor simply means the vitality of mind and body, not the other kind of vigor.

They both mean the same thing, but anyway, they’re not.

“Since everything else is well established, from now on I just have to earnestly hunt to earn money and grow.”

I, who was upset by Rockser’s vigor of a different dimension, decided to stop thinking about vigor for now.