Chapter 69 - 69: Money, School Rumors, and an Unexpected Cafeteria Meeting

The earnings from Blue Spring Ride and its tankobon royalties had finally been processed and deposited.

After taxes, Haruto's bank balance was at ten of millions. If he were to graduate from an average university and take a standard desk job, he would likely earn around four or five million yen a year. That was the median income for a worker in Japan, providing a stable, middle-class life where a light novel magazine still cost about seven hundred yen.

In a high-income nation like Japan, wages for the average salaryman remained relatively flat, growing only by small increments over time. This meant that his current savings were equivalent to the total take-home pay of years of grueling labor without spending a single yen on food or rent.

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