The house was quiet, except for the hum of Kai's desktop tower. RGB lights pulsed calmly, mirroring the rhythm of his breath.
It was one of those rare days when he wasn't streaming.
He was investing.
Not into his content.
Not into his brand.
Into the future.
The Morning Routine (Investor Mode)
Wake up.
Brew coffee.
Check Discord for messages from Zoey and the others.
Open his multi-monitor setup—one for charts, one for news, one for notes.
Breathe.
Kai had always liked patterns. It's why he was good at games. And now, that same instinct was what made him successful in another arena: crypto and stocks.
Flashback: Month 2 After Rebirth
At 21, armed with knowledge of future trends, Kai began small.
He scraped together a few thousand through tutoring and flipping used GPUs. It wasn't much. But he had foresight—the kind others didn't.
Bitcoin would dip hard before a new bull run.
Ethereum would fork, then spike.
A few tech stocks would balloon during a wave of global AI interest.
And some shady coins? Would pop, then crash. He rode the rise, cashed out just before collapse.
He wasn't greedy.
He was precise.
And above all, he used the Save & Load system sparingly.
Slot 1: "The Beginning"Slot 2: "Collab Spark"Slot 3: "Big Buy Week" ✅
He could only hold three saves, but that was all he needed.
Mistakes? He corrected them.
Missed timings? He reloaded.
He wasn't cheating fate. He was optimizing it.
Present Day – Year 2 Since Rebirth
Kai sat in a sleek apartment he never thought he could afford at this age. His portfolio was worth seven figures now, but he kept things humble.
Minimalist setup.
Second-hand furniture.
Fridge full of eggs, rice, and too many cans of Monster.
He opened his Twitch dashboard.
His numbers were climbing.
Over 13,000 subs now. Enough to turn heads. Sponsorships were poking through his inbox. One from a gaming chair company. Another from a VPN service. The usual.
He replied to none of them.
Not yet.
This wasn't the end goal.
The mansion was.
The Dream (Again)
He kept a photo pinned above his monitor. A screenshot from when they were kids—Zoey, Hào, and the others. All of them in a Minecraft server, standing in front of a blocky castle. The caption read:
"Cozy Mansion V0.1 – Needs Less Creepers, More WiFi"
Kai smiled at it every day.
Not out of nostalgia.
Out of intention.
He was getting there.
Bit by bit.
That Night – IRL Stream Tease
He booted up a late-night chat stream. Just his facecam, a soft lo-fi track playing in the background.
"Sup chat," he said. "No gameplay tonight. Just talking."
The viewer count ticked up.
1k.
3k.
5k.
"Random question," he said casually, "you guys ever have dreams with your friends? Not like, goals. Just dumb stuff. Stuff you say at 3 a.m. and laugh about—until one day you wonder if it could actually happen?"
Chat exploded.
"Cozy house?""YESSSS DO IT""Streamer mansion when? 👀""I volunteer as roommate""Only if Zoey comes too lol"
Kai smiled to himself.
He didn't confirm.
He didn't deny.
But the seed had been planted.
Later that night, he received a text from Zoey:
"We should talk. Not about visas this time. About reality."
Kai replied:
"Name the time."
Meanwhile...
Somewhere in Cologne, a girl with a sharp haircut and sharper humor was watching Kai's stream.
She didn't type in chat.
Didn't follow.
Didn't even breathe too loudly.
But she remembered him.
And she whispered to herself:
"Kaijo... no way that's actually him."
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