'A loan,' he thinks. 'The app offers loans.'
The loan interface loaded clean and direct — maximum available credit 5,000 PP, repayment amount 8,000 PP, repayment deadline before the conclusion of Game Three.
His mind moves the way it always moves when it encounters a new financial system — fast, structural, reading the implications before he reads the terms. Because the implications matter more than the terms. The terms tell you what they want from you. The implications tell you what the system actually is.
He reads the repayment terms twice. Not because they are complex — they are straightforward — but because straightforward terms have a way of concealing assumptions, and he wants to find the assumption before it finds him.
