A Most Unlikely Hero, Volume 11 by Brandon Varnell

Author:Brandon Varnell [Varnell, Brandon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781951904692
Publisher: Kitsune Incorporated

The weekend normally meant spending time with everyone, evenly dividing his time between the many girls who lived with him, but a problem had arisen that Alex couldn’t ignore. That was why Alex had called a family meeting immediately after picking up the girls from school on Friday.

“We’re short on credits.”

Alex made this announcement to everyone as they gazed at him from where they sat. He stood before the group of girls. Alice, Ariel, Jasmine, and Michelle sat on one of the couches together. He noted with some amusement that their formation (Ariel, Alice, Michelle, Jasmine) had them sitting in a row from the least to most busty. Gabrielle was in one of the circular chairs. Her entire body had sunk into it, making it appear like she was being swallowed whole. Nyx had taken the other chair, while Madison stood beside Alex.

The other couch was empty.

Gabrielle thrust a hand into the air. “What are credits?”

Alex turned to the girl and raised an eyebrow as he silently wondered if she had really just asked that question, until he realized something important.

“I suppose you wouldn’t know since I’ve never actually told you about them.” Alex ran a hand through his hair before straightening. “Credits are the currency used in this solar system. They are a type of digital currency that is determined by a set value embedded into a microchip.”

He held out a single square disc.

“This is a credit. You can see here on this small monitor that it says ‘one.’ That means this credit has a value of one.” He placed the credit back into his pocket. “Credits have set values of one, five, ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred, and one thousand, with a few going higher like the ten thousand value credit.”

“So it’s money.” Gabrielle nodded to herself, crossed her arms, and blinked several times. “And you said we don’t have enough of these credits?”

“That’s correct.” Alex wiggled his fingers as he resisted the desire to rub his face.

“You look tired,” Michelle commented.

“I was up all night trying to think of how to make more money,” Alex admitted with a sigh. “I used to have plenty of credits thanks to my patents, but after the police fined me, I lost most of my savings. This would have been fine since I was still making money off my patents, but I just discovered that my bank account was empty.”

“Which means you aren’t making any money,” Michelle concluded.

“That’s it exactly.”

“It’s the de Fénelon family, isn’t it?” Jasmine asked.

He sighed. “It is.”

The de Fénelon family was among the top ten most powerful noble families within their solar system. Not only were they wealthy, but they owned several hundred mining operations, many of which had a net worth of several hundred billion credits thanks to their contracts with the Galactic Defense Force. It was the de Fénelons who supplied the GDF with over 65% of their durasteel—the alloy used for the hull of starships.

In terms of political and financial power, they were even more powerful than Jasmine’s former family, the de Truantes.

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