Barry lived in a two-bedroom apartment situated in the district zone.
The district zone contains individuals with D ranks.
People in D ranks were regular folks, earning average salaries and holding common positions.
They're literally average Joes.
But Barry, who was an E Rank, had no hopes of paying the rent nor enrolling his sister in school all by himself.
As Barry headed home, his head was spinning with the additional responsibilities on his hands.
With his benefactor, dead, there was no one to support him anymore. The Raven family would only pay him $200 if he continued to slave for them.
But $200 was barely enough to feed himself, pay the rent or see his younger sister through school.
Standing outside his apartment, Barry took a deep breath before knocking on the door.
The door opened to reveal a cute sixteen-year-old high school girl wearing shorts and a sweater.
“I'm home, Snow,” Barry said, forcing a wide smile on his face. “Here, I bought us dinner.”
He stretched out a bag of groceries he bought from the nearby store.
Snow rushed at him and embraced him tightly. “Big Brother,” she called excitedly. “Welcome home. It's been lonely without you this week.”
Barry stroke her hair. Since Evelyn's death, he hadn't been home for a while.
“I'm sorry I couldn't be here with you,” Barry said. “Let's go inside. Tell me all about school while we make dinner together.”
* * * *
An hour later, Barry tucked Snow in her bed and returned to his room.
He laid up on his bed and stared at the ceiling. He had just spent his last $200 in grocery shopping.
After tonight, there would be nothing left to eat.
What's more troubling, they have not paid the landlord in months. Their rent was way overdue.
Barry gritted his teeth as he thought about how the Raven family had abandoned him.
He sat up, his rage boiling over. If he ever gets the chance, he would make each of them regret ever treating him like trash.
Just then, he received an inbox text message on his small phone.
Barry stared at his phone as he opened the text.
It was his Forex trading account details and password.
Barry recalled the accountant mentioning this Forex trading account was fully funded with $10,000.
This was all they left him with after losing the White mansion to Laura in their divorce settlement.
Unfortunately, the Forex market has been awful for the past three years.
There was hardly any money to be made these days from trading.
Barry sighed. “This is better than nothing.”
Snow still had a laptop Evelyn gifted her years ago. Barry retrieved the laptop from the living room and booted it on.
Fortunately, the Wi-Fi was free around this part of town. Barry could log in to his Forex trading account smoothly.
When the site interface appeared, Barry's eyes widened.
$10,000,000.00.
“What the…?” He muttered, rubbing his eyes just to make sure he was seeing clearly. “How I'm I seeing $10 million instead of $10,000?”
The amount was still there, $10 million, staring back at him.
“No way,” Barry's jaws dropped. “It can't be. I don't believe it. This has to be a mistake.”
He refreshed the page over and over again, thinking it was a glitch somewhere, but the amount was right there.


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