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Chapter 52: Summer 25, Year 1: Conspiracies p3: economics and anthropomorphic apples

Summary:

that one chapter that was conceived in the end notes section of ch 48

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Jared?: so if the fishing industry is staying afloat by cheating the economy underhandedly, then how does the rest of the economic world stay afloat in this town

Jared?: like, how are they getting enough money to be giving us 100g for delivering a melon to them?

Lard Breadwinner: Well the old people prob live off of their retirement money or something

Bra: Oh well some of its the statue chips

Jared?: The what?

Bra: Some of the younger people have been exploiting a money hack known as fuck the Lewis statue

Lard Breadwinner: Your mentioning this now?

Bra: I have enough gold

Bra: That’s a lie I will never have enough

Bra: It did not occur to me as worth mentioning?

Jared?: wtf do u mean the Lewis statue??

Bra: Bitch got a bit egotistical and built a statue of himself out of our tax money :3

Bra: Wait do we pay taxes?

Bra: Are we supposed to be doing that?

Ginus: Tax evasion

Lard Breadwinner: It’s how we keep our money usable

Bra: Why do we trust you with the finances

Lard Breadwinner: You would do the same

Bra: True

Bra: What happens when they find out?

Ginus: Blackmail

Bra: OMG YES

Jared?: So the fish are a scam, the marrigables are taking gold off a statue or have an outside access, we are committing tax evasion. Anything else?

Jared?: Small magical forest creatures unpaid labor?

Ginus: The what

Jared?: Oh ya you haven’t been to the community center

Ginus: What do they look like?

Jared?: Apples

Ginus: Are they edible?

Jared?: Idk haven’t tried

Bra: I’ll get back to you <3

Lard Breadwinner: Lewis also spends frivolously enough that it evens out?

Bra: Would be a shame if he was ever… indisposed

Bra: Not that I ever plan on doing that

Bra: Just saying any of us would make a better mayor

Lard Breadwinner: Thanks I think?

Bra: The junimos can be assumed edible but they taste absolutely terrible unless you really like sour things

Lard Breadwinner: you like sour things?

Bra: It squeaked at me and I felt bad.

Bra: Update, they regenerate. I feel less bad

Ginus: potential renewable food source?

Bra: Update number 2, I am in pain.

Bra: Which is either the apple or cheese from earlier

Jared?: I haven’t had any today so I’ll try and get back to you

Jared?: How did you catch it?

Bra: I sat in the community center with a net outside of that hut thing

Jared?: Thx :D

Jared?: Oh wow it is sour

Jared?: and Squeaky

Lard Breadwinner: I leave for half an hour and you have both eaten something potentially poisonous

Lard Breadwinner: Harvey costs money!

Jared?: Yah it hurts

Jared?: Pretty mild tho

Lard Breadwinner: If yall die I’m taking your farmland.

Notes:

taking summer college classes to beef up my college application per my mother's wishes, so i had to partially write this while sitting on a bench in humid 90+ degree Fahrenheit weather lmao. Im still grounded outside of school hours tho, so I still have to print my fics in order to read them whenever I wish, but my printer broke, and my grandparent's printer literally takes an hour to print only 20 pages of paper.
- Caffeinne

Disclaimer: We are law abiding citizens I swear, or mostly law abiding, taking forgotten vending machine change does not count.

Written by Caffeinne and TheInvisibleCat