"Fuyuko wants to know how much we're paying."

"I know beggars can't be choosers but remind me of who Fuyuko is again?"

"She's faculty at Meijou University studying dungeon physics."

"Do you like her?"

"Yeah! She's been lovely for blog consulting, she didn't come to the wedding because she's petrified of teleportation, she has a two-year-old."

"Nam Hee-seo would be horrified if I said I'm willing to pay however much Fuyuko-nim wants but I don't think money is likely to be an issue." Not just because of the esper money or the inheritance money; Jaeha and Haru are now working with Samsung Group and making quite a lot of money off that, too.

Haru texts back What would you say if I told you to name your price.

I was trying to get away from having to figure that one out ^_^'

Are there standard rates other countries use?

Japan is a little bit insane about the whole concept.

Looks like it'd be 90+k CAD in Canada but it's more in the US and obviously we can pay extra for discretion/goodwill/possibility of repeat business/definitely not letting your evil future self who was hit by cosmic rays start a legal battle in the Korean courts

One moment while I convert the currency...

Oh

Oh, wow

"I'd be okay with doubling that," says Jaeha, looking over Haru's shoulder. "Or more. Kang Jaehyuk probably would be, too, if it would guarantee that she doesn't claim any rights over our kid."

Like multiply that by a factor of two at least given the givens, we're not pinching yen on this

Oh wow

I'm not sure what I'd do with all that money!

You'd take a sabbatical to hang out with your kid and work on your book?

I suppose I could

wow

"could use a well compensated sabbatical" was among the criteria I was sorting through people I know by! I want to read your book!

Well

I'm definitely interested, I must say.

My husband is also tentatively fine with it, we should talk in more detail about it but

That's a lot of money.

And my pregnancy was relatively tranquil, compared to what my friends seem to have gone through.

That part I wasn't sure about, you could have just been really stoic.

No, no, I'm pretty sure I just didn't go through the horrors my friends told me about.

Well, anyway

When do you need an answer by?

We're not on a super tight timetable, we don't have embryos yet and they can be stashed in the freezer for as long as need be, but I'd like to know if I should be asking more people or just waiting?

It's still not 100% certain that I can accept, I need to see how easy it will be to take this time off and discuss it with my husband in a bit more detail.

So I wouldn't want to block you from looking more.

But I think we are very inclined to go for it.

OK, I will send out feelers accordingly.