Four Split Personalities

Chapter 2558: Chapter 1208: After the Exhibition Match

Game Time PM19:35

Academy City Outer Ring, Isaac Comprehensive College, Second Training Ground

With a smile, Motan completed the eleventh photo session (magic imprint) with Principal Qian from Shuhai Seventh Middle School, bid farewell to the reluctant President of Peter Academy, autographed the journals and bras of two sixth-grade girls majoring in the Knight profession, and finally helped the summer special research students clean up the training ground with the Woof Woof Team. Motan finally let out a long sigh of relief, thoroughly exhausted.

"You’ve worked hard, Silent Brother."

After bidding farewell to the last group of students leaving the training ground, Heavenly Dao, instead of returning to the office area with the principal, walked up to Motan, gently patting his shoulder: "Sorry, I made too many assumptions before. The actual scene seemed much more intense than I imagined. You’ve had a tough time."

The performance match wasn’t very tiring, but the subsequent interaction almost took half of Motan’s life. He shook his head, showing a sincere, if somewhat tired, smile: "Having everyone regard me so highly is my honor. If I can help your school and Isaac Academy, that’s great."

"It’s only natural. The effects of today’s performance match and meeting were excellent. Leaving aside the excited kids from the main academy, even our summer special research player students were very happy. Many were forced into the game for extra lessons, and their resentment... dissipated a lot."

At this point, Heavenly Dao glanced intentionally or unintentionally at Dubs, who was squatting beside Teacher Chen, rubbing his hands nervously and stiffly, and said lightly, "In short, you were a great help."

Motan smiled warmly, letting out a breath of relief: "Glad to have helped."

Truth be told, his relief couldn’t have been more justified. After all, the character ’Mor,’ the protagonist of this impromptu event, wasn’t a normal person with orthodox roots. In other words, he was sick.

Really sick.

Mental illness!

Although contingencies were considered for sudden disconnections, in any case, an excellent young talent like Silent Knight suddenly losing consciousness during the performance match or abruptly fainting while interacting with students would be considered serious incidents. Mishandling such cases could cause big trouble, especially considering the Academy City’s shameless and pervasive newspaper journalists and magazine editors, who could distort the incident into outrageous stories.

He knew this because, as Hei Fan, he had seen many publications bought back by Fyari through various channels. Except for one article about someone peeking at a Grand Astrologist bathing being somewhat factual, the other reports were absurdly dehumanizing.

Luckily, Motan, despite being caught on a tiger, didn’t suddenly fall ill, preventing his help from becoming a hindrance.

"So, let’s have a word... Silent Brother."

Heavenly Dao suddenly said this and led Motan a short distance toward the artificial forest, lowering his voice to ask: "If I may ask, what’s your bank account number?"

"Ha?!"

Motan was shocked at the time, and after a moment of reacting, he hesitated: "Suddenly asking this, are you..."

Heavenly Dao shook his head, shrugged, and said: "It’s not me, but Principal Qian asked me to. You probably guessed the reason. Principal Qian is grateful for your help, Silent Brother, and wishes to pay you a... well, quite substantial remuneration under the guise of work-study."

Motan blinked a few times, almost immediately waving his hand to politely decline: "I don’t think that’s necessary."

To be honest, Motan wasn’t particularly wealthy. This was evident in his clothing, food, housing, and transportation in real life, but at least at this moment, he wasn’t interested in remuneration that theoretically he should earn.

Firstly, the whole situation started because of the commotion caused by the Woof Woof Team in the academic building.

Secondly, although this event benefited both the summer special research and Isaac Comprehensive College, surpassing the troubles it caused, Motan accepted this task mainly because of his friendship with Dubs. To delve deeper, he cooperated fully because he wanted Anthony Dubs, a rather unusual teacher, to have a better work environment, rather than earn a bit of performance fees for himself.

Sure, Motan wasn’t wealthy, but we also know if he wanted to become affluent, it wouldn’t be difficult. On the high end, the legendary hacker BLACK had at least a hundred ways to illegally but legitimately fill his pockets, while on the low end, as long as he gave Yi Dong, a high-quality rich second-generation keen on improving his bosom friend’s living standards, a chance, his small life wouldn’t be bad at all.

In fact, the reason Motan could be so calm about his relatively tight living situation was fundamentally because if he really needed money, he would get money. We can simply understand this as the difference between ’living in a basement due to poverty’ and ’a wealthy person living in a basement for the experience.’ Although it’s not an appropriate example, Motan doesn’t usually care about experiencing life, but the reasoning is indeed sound.

Simplifying this, it’s that knowing he can be financially fine, even if now he isn’t financially fine, makes him not place too much weight on money.