Isekai by Moonlight

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Have another teaser.

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We got home from school the next day to discover Shario-chan looking extremely morose.

"What's wrong?" Ami asked.

"We're broke."

"We can't be," Ryou said. "We have millions of yen worth of stocks in the mutual fund."

Shario-chan held up a letter. "And we owe the government two-and-a-half million yen."

"Why?"

"Because we ignored Air Traffic Control when Sailor Uranus launched the Caduceus."

"She had to," I said. "We couldn't let the Americans get their hands on that technology."

"Aren't you an American?" Shario-chan asked.

"No, I'm Canadian. At least until I actually marry Makoto."

"Oh. I suppose somebody has to be, considering it's an independent country. Back to the fine, Superintendent-General Sakurada says we should count ourselves lucky that she talked the Americans out of making an example of us; the fine could have been ten times as much and Tenou-san could have gone to jail. But we don't have enough in ready cash."

"How long do we have to pay it?" Ryou asked with a sigh.

"Thirty days."

I had a thought. "How long before Ichiro can come home?"

"A week and a half."

Ami saw where I was going with that question. "And how much in royalty payments do I still have banked in Midchilda?"

That was enough to get Shario-chan to relax. "Enough to buy enough gold to sell here and cover the fine. But we'll need help liquidating that much gold at once, and you'll need to borrow everybody's else's power again to keep a portal open for long enough to get the gold through."

I was beginning to think that arbitrage was the best invention ever.