So the top priority is to unearth those 'undiscovered gold mines'.
That is, 'hidden geniuses' who have talent but lack relevant proficiency.
And it's best if they are already in difficulties, so Akira can 'take advantage of the situation'.
To make himself the benefactor of geniuses, or even a deity!
There's a saying: there's plenty of icing on the cake, but little help in times of need.
A helping hand given in someone's most difficult time can make them remember it for a lifetime, and owe an unpayable debt of gratitude.
Not only am I a good brother who supports you in your toughest times, but I also point you towards a glittering path to stardom; this favorability will surely max out.
Then, as long as the other party has a bit of conscience, repaying a drop of kindness with a gushing spring, Akira can enjoy the fresh, hot soft-rice he's cultivated.
It just depends on how many powerful figures Akira needs to cling to before he can live the laid-back life he dreams of.
Akira once heard a saying: if everyone in the world gave him one yen, he would instantly become a billionaire.
What he needs to do now is similar to this.
As long as those successful people, after achieving fame and fortune, each give him ten million, then with just ten people, he can get one hundred million.
Although for a certain Uncle Wang, one hundred million is just a small goal, for Akira, one hundred million is already the ultimate goal for a comfortable life.
However, one hundred million yuan converts to 2.2 billion yen; if ten people share it, each person needs to contribute 220 million yen.
The average lifetime earnings of a typical office worker in Neon are roughly 200 million yen.
However, if they are only moderately famous, earning millions or tens of millions annually, it's probably unlikely they would give Akira that much money.
It's well known that issues involving interests are always complex; even among close brothers, when money is involved, they might turn their backs on each other.
But what if 220 million yen is just 'a little bit of money' that they can freely spend?
In other words, it depends on how powerful the figures Akira can cling to are.
Geniuses also have levels.
Currently, the talent levels Akira sees range from E to A, from lowest to highest.
Actually, above A-rank, there's an S-rank, but that is extremely rare; Akira has only seen one person with this top-tier talent so far.
That was a few days ago when he saw on TV a certain prominent figure in this country waving to the people around him, and the words "Speech S" appeared on his palm as a talent.
Of course, Akira also knows that reaching that position isn't achieved by talent alone, but this ability to incite, comparable to that of a certain dictator, must have greatly aided his career, accumulating numerous allies and popular support.
That is to say, a person with S-rank talent can reach the pinnacle in a certain field.
Akira doesn't hope to encounter talent of that level, but at the very least, he needs to build relationships with people who have B-rank talent or higher to make it worthwhile.
After all, if the talent level isn't high enough, the speed of gaining fame and earning money will also be relatively slow, which would result in Akira's soft-rice being of insufficient quality, and the cooking period would also be very long.
Akira just wants to live a relaxed life as soon as possible.
The ideal scenario is to be able to immediately enter a relaxed state upon High School graduation, avoiding the dilemma of graduating into unemployment.
To summarize in one sentence: he needs many powerful figures! And they need to be powerful enough!
If it really doesn't work, as a last resort, one hundred million yen would also be good… saving it in the bank would probably be enough to live a lifetime…
So, the question is, where can he find 'young rich women' who have high-level talents but haven't yet discovered them?
Whether there are words on the right hand can be seen as long as he is close enough, because Akira has not yet seen anyone whose talents are so numerous that one palm is not enough to write them all.
However, checking the proficiency on the left hand is more troublesome, because only three proficiencies can be displayed simultaneously on one palm, but even an ordinary person can learn far more than three skills.
Just like the class president, a genius who learned dozens of skills at fifteen, it takes a while to check her left hand.
So, to confirm proficiency, he needs an opportunity to hold the other person's left hand and check.
This is quite troublesome.
Does he really have to open a fortune-telling stall?
But Akira only wants to find geniuses; if a bunch of ordinary people come, wouldn't that be a waste of time?
Moreover, he doesn't know how to read palms, he's not a psychologist, and he can't sweet-talk people; he might go out of business on the first day of opening a fortune-telling stall.