Mikkakan no Koufuku [English Translation]

Preface

"How much money would your life be worth?" 

I was once asked a question like that.
Yes, I believe it was part of a lesson on morals in fourth grade.

Most of the students, after much debate, settled on somewhere between tens of millions of yen and hundreds of millions.
Of course, some students were firm in their belief that money couldn't buy life.

You'd probably get the same sort of responses from adults.
Personally, if you asked me before that day I really sold my own lifespan, I would say my life was worth around 200 or 300 million.

I figured that if I sold ten or twenty years of lifespan for a few tens of millions of yen, it would be a clever way to ensure my remaining life was easy.
Between a happy sixty years and a not-so-much eighty, I was sure I wanted the former.

That all got turned around when I saw my results.
It seemed my life didn't even make it to a million yen.