[Western Crossover] Raising a Little Rich Kid

You're nineteen this year. Because a bat dragged your boss into Arkham, you ended up unemployed through no fault of your own.

On the day you left your job, you found a little black cat. It told you it was a System, and that it had come to help you.

Great, let's do this. You really need help. Do you want to get stronger or richer? Either way is fine, you need both...

Shouldn't you be buying a lottery ticket now, then thinking about getting a car and a house? Oh, you should start by getting a new phone! You know, that's how this usually goes!

So, following the System's instructions, you completed the beginner quest, claimed your first quest reward, and unlocked the System's name:

[Tycoon Toddler-Raising System]

Your head already spinning with thoughts of becoming a tycoon, you start imagining your wonderful future: Hahahahaha, the tycoon System is going to make me rich!!! I'll become a tycoon and surpass Bruce Wayne, hahaha! Gotham's richest person is about to be replaced, hahaha!

Cat System: First, you need to go to bed before nine. Then, you can't eat junk food anymore.

You calm down. “...Nobody ever bossed me around like this when I was a kid, and I'm already so grown up now!!!”

Cat System: Lastly, you can only use electronic devices for half an hour a day.

You begin to deny reality. “...I must have been working too hard lately and messed up my head. That's definitely it.”

At nine in the evening, you lie in bed, staring at the ceiling with no hint of sleepiness, while a little cat lies beside you to make sure you go to sleep.

Of course, you could tell the System it's bound to the wrong person, that you're not a toddler at all, that you're already an adult and even have a job...

But it's a tycoon System. This is a tycoon System!

Who could possibly turn down a tycoon System? You certainly can't.

Cat System: That's right. A five-year-old should be asleep by now. If you don't get enough sleep, you won't grow tall.

You: “...Heh. Right.”

You've betrayed your conscience, which you never had in the first place!

Then you realize there might be something wrong with this System.

You: System, tell me this: is that black-cloaked guy over there, who can punch ten people like me to death, really a kid my age?!

System: That's right. There are lots of children like him in this city. But don't worry, you can help them solve their problems and become friends with them. Children need more friends. Human social skills should be nurtured from an early age...

You ignore the System's endless chatter.

Is it too late to admit you're not five and run away?!

*

Batman was the last person in the family to find out that Jason had a girlfriend.

Of course, he already knew Jason's girlfriend.

Jewelica, a newly minted stock market goddess who has no idea what's going on: That's right, I'm a rich heiress, and he's my kept man.

Looking at Jason, who's 183 centimeters tall and weighs a whopping 200 pounds: “...Your kept man?”

Jason: “Heh. That's me.”

Reading notes:

1. The System's standard is simple: whoever it thinks is a child counts as a child.

2. There really is no logic. Really.

3. Dice will be used to make choices in the story.

4. This isn't a typical tycoon story, and it may not be a wish-fulfillment story.

5., April 23, 2026.

Theme: No matter when, always live well.