Chapter One: Tomorrow for One Dollar

He opened the trading rules one by one and discovered a line of very faint text beneath every glittering asset. Gray against black, it nearly disappeared into the background. 【If delivery fails, the buyer bears an equivalent loss of possibility.】 He leaned closer. The sentence split into two layers. Beneath the gray text, dark red characters emerged—characters visible only to him. 【Glitch privilege loaded: Liability Sight.】 【Warning: You can see chains of cost, but chains of cost can also see you.】 The entire market changed. A red line trailed from the four-hundred-thousand-credit court victory to “collapse of founder’s marriage.” The rented sales instinct concealed a permanent inability to recognize the voices of friends and family.