Kono Sekai ga Game da to, Ore dake ga Shitte Iru Vol 3 Chapter 2.1

The clerk at the item shop at first showed a tinge of bewilderment while muttering, “Ah! I don’t know why I did such a terrible thing again!” But when it came to the actual work, she moved quickly . She quickly went outside, hung a [CLOSED] sign at the entrance, and immediately took all the goods and laid it out in front of me .

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I asked if the store was okay with selling their stockpiles, but it seems that consumables, especially fast-consuming recovery items, can be restocked without a day’s wait . They’re closing today, but there’s no problem opening tomorrow or later .

This is apparently the result of following the game’s system so I was curious where she was getting so many products from . Before I could ask, I was taken to the warehouse by her without warning .

“This is… . . ”

And when I see what’s crammed in there, I’m lost for words .

While watching me with a smile on her face, the woman at the store said happily .

“Ehehehehe . The fact that Mr . Esteemed Guest has bought all of this, I’m saved . These were always coming in fast, but I couldn’t sell them either, so I was really troubled!”

While she’s talking about this, on the inside I’m definitely agreeing with her .

Even without the game system giving these items such a negative connotation, who would buy something in such poor taste anyway?

“The [Kuul Skulls]……”

This was an item that I once removed from the shopkeeper’s house, and it was a useful item that helped me take down the Golden Zlimes in the elimination tournament . There were so many of them that they took up about half of this large warehouse, literally in a pile .

Even in the game era, we never ran out of stock even if we bought a lot of them, even if they were needed for a quest . So, I could imagine that they must have a lot of stockpiles, but I never imagined that they would be stored in a warehouse to the point where they would be piled up like this .

I was tempted to buy a few more to complete the quest for this skull, [The Way of the Lost], but what am I supposed to do with a warehouse half full of them?

The clerk, not knowing that I was inwardly exasperated, called out to me cheerfully .

“To make matters worse, I made a mistake one time as I put them on the floor of warehouse, so the back half of the warehouse is now unusable . I’ve gotten desperate, desperate!”

She says that with pride, but it’s not something to be proud of at all .

The [Kuul Skull] is an item with the mechanic where “you can put it on the ground and no one can pick it up” . If it was placed like this, it would indeed render the warehouse unusable . Or rather, I guess it’s the effect of the game, but I want to tell them they shouldn’t have accepted the goods in the first place .

(Honestly, I really don’t need this much… . )

The number of kuul skulls required to complete [The Way of the Lost] is twenty-five .

I don’t mind buying a surplus of, say, 30 skulls, but how many dozens of hundreds of skulls are here?

”Um, how many of these do you have…”

“Three thousand!”

Of course the shopkeeper gave a prompt answer puffed up with pride . My face darkens more than you can imagine .

“Um, I’m sorry, but this is…”

I can’t buy all of this .

Just as I was about to cancel my purchase, the shopkeeper laughed at me as if she beat me to the punch .

“Hey . I used to curse my own misfortune, but now I’ve turned it into a blessing! Esteemed Guest, you are such a savior!”

“I . . Is that right…”

In response to her full smile, I force an uncomfortable smile back

(Th-This is, something I can’t reject!)

As I watched her smile, I remembered that it was because I was talking to this shopkeeper that I once got killed in the game .

So due to this, I’m gonna have to make do with receiving such a bad inventory .

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Well, that’s how it’s all come together so far, albeit not as I hoped, but the question is less about buying all of these items but how to store it all .

The answer, however, lay in the items I purchased .

That’s right, it’s the adventurer’s bag, a super useful item for adventurers . In the game, you could only have 1 bag per person, but this seems to be regulated in this world by the same mental constraints as the amount of rings worn at once .

So it seems this limitation shouldn’t matter for me .

I lay out my colorful adventurer bags and then place one item after another into them . The red adventurer’s bag is for attack items, the blue adventurer’s bag is for recovery items, and so on .

Although this means I’ll have to walk around with a lot of bags .

Therefore ultimately, I’m going to put the bags inside the bag . An adventurer’s bag in an adventurer’s bag .

It’s like sorting folders on your computer . The idea is to create an attack item folder and a weapon item folder in the main item folder to make it easier to see where things are . However, there is a bit of a drawback to this .

Now, to take an item out of an adventurer’s bag, I not only have to take the item I want out of the bag, but also take out the bag with my desired items from the adventurer’s bag, and then take out the item in that bag again from the bag that I took out from the adventurer’s bag .
It’s more troublesome than before, where I only put items in the adventurer’s bag, because now I have to take out the bags from the bag .

Confusing? Since the item is put in the bag twice, it needs to be taken out of the bag twice .

Well, this is also a problem that can be solved to some extent by putting frequently used items in a pouch or the main bag . I’ll think about item sorting slowly after setting up a base .

I asked the shopkeeper to separate the items by type and put them in a bag, and he handily threw the store’s items into the bag with a pompom, so that should be fine . She’s the shopkeeper, so I don’t think she’d be inexperienced with sorting .

The more immediate problem is this [Kuul Skull] x3000 .

I’m the only one who can put these skulls, which are piled up around the warehouse, into bags .

I want you to think about this . Three thousand is a huge number . Even if I stuffed one into a bag every second, it would take me fifty minutes . A dude stuffing skulls into a bag for 50 minutes . It’s a picture I don’t really want to imagine, and the thought of me actually being the dude doing the work is horrific to say the least .

(Why does this happen to me, even when I’ve finally gotten so rich…?)

So, Nekomimineko’s basically saying they don’t even allow the fun of becoming a noveau riche .

I complain in my heart, but I’m the one who insisted on buying it, and if I can handle Ringo, who is a lot tougher than a shopkeeper, I’ll just have to manage .

And to further reduce my motivation… . .

“…Nakedness… is… sexy… Teasing… is also… important…… But… pink hair, is, the best… . ”

“That’s right! Pink hair is proof of being the strongest point of ero! It’s a trademark of being sexy but still cute! Ringo-san can learn this rather well! As expected, you are for sure my best pupil!”

It’s the chatter of two women who have gotten bored .

What’s more, the topics I can hear are not very good . I feel like speaking out, but I don’t want to stop my actions and call it out because that would make me look knowledgeable about such topics .

“If it’s ero, boom! Leave it to me!” I’ve got over 200 books of slightly mature shoujo manga that I read while I was doing shop duties . I’ll teach Ringo-san all the secrets of eroticism I’ve gained from that!”

You think you’ve got some kind of manga knowledge, huh . Anyway, don’t read manga, do your job . Wait, there’s such a thing as shoujo manga in this world?

I continued to pack the skulls into my bag while making such retorts in my mind .

“At any rate, Ringo-san, you are very hard-working, aren’t you? Are you like that way because of Esteemed Guest?”

“…Un… Souma, he… really likes ero stuff . ”

I’ve been badly misunderstood!

“Ah–! Of course it’s indeed that way isn’t it!”

And somehow, the shopkeeper’s easily convinced . Ringo’s not stopping either .

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“…The first thing he bought for me, was… ero-raincoat . ”

“Uwaa… That’s, indeed… . ”

I feel her gaze pierce the back of my head . I frantically scooped up the skulls and pretended I didn’t hear anything .

No, that’s not what I’m talking about . The first one I ever bought was an ero-raincoat, but before that, I gave her clothes and apples and such . I had little, or almost no, evil intentions at all with the ero-raincoat!

“I-It’s all right! We already know that guy is a pervy sekuhara bastard!”

What the hell makes that okay? Also what exactly do you already know?

Indeed, this flow of events is not good for me . I was going to speak a little bit of my mind with them, but when I was about to get up…

“… . Souma, isn’t, that kind of person . . ”

Surprisingly, the first person to speak up and defend me was Ringo .

“Eh? Nonono, Esteemed Guest is too much of a pervert! After all that guy, the first time I met him, my pa, pan… . Anyways it’s no exaggeration to say that Esteemed Guest is at that level of being a perverted sexual harasser!”

“…That kind of thing, is, wrong… Souma, is normally… nor . . m…… …Not a… sexual, harasser . ”

Oi . Right now, you went from trying to prove me innocent to just denying that i’m a pervert .

While I was playing with that thought, the shopkeeper was gradually pushing Ringo into a corner .

”Come on, it’s dangerous to be so defenseless like that . Get this – every man is a monster! If someone as cute as Ringo-san shows even an opening in front of Esteemed Guest, he’d eat you up like a delicious meal in an instant!

“…Souma, will eat me?”

“Yes! Let me be specific . In front of a naked Ringo-san, Esteemed Guest’s lower body will go whoopeeee!!”

Just as the conversation was about to take a turn for the worse, I threw the skull I’d just picked up at the shopkeeper’s head . It brilliantly hit her in the forehead, and the shopkeeper keeled over .

“You know… Ringo is a straightforward person, so don’t tell him anything too weird . ”

The clerk looked at me grudgingly at first in response to my rough actions, but,

”Ugh . Even so there’s no need to throw anything at me… nyaaaaahhhh!

“Oh, shit . ”

As soon as she saw what had been thrown, she suddenly let out a wild scream and fell down on her back .

I had forgotten that the clerk had had a traumatic experience with skulls .

“Sorry Are you okay?”

I stopped what I was doing and hurriedly ran over to the shopkeeper . And in the midst of all this, while looking down at the collapsed clerk and me…

“…Mmm . white, lace . ”

Ringo was the only one who remained calm and continued to study us .

Even though she was that kind of shopkeeper, when it came to her work, she was indeed capable .

After my endless labor of moving around all the skulls in the warehouse until there was none left, she quickly sorted out the stock, made a list of what was in the store and submitted it to me .

I was just wondering how inconvenient it would be without some sort of list, so I gratefully received it and checked the contents . Ah, I’m glad I can see lots of potions .

“… . Huh?”

I read through the list to the end, confirming the details, but then I felt something wrong .

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“What’s the matter?”

“Oh, yeah . The other day, you gave me a handkerchief with a flower on it . I didn’t think it would be mentioned here… . I thought that was your personal belongings?

I asked the shopkeeper about this . With her head tilted in confusion, she paused and muttered, “Hand . . kerchief…?” . She lifted her eyes and looked at Ringo, and then looked back at me again .

By the way, Ringo is reading the book the shopkeeper gave her . It’s good that she’s quiet, but I’m a little worried that she’s acquiring strange knowledge again .

“As one would expect of Esteemed Guest! Yes, a handkerchief, that’s a handkerchief, isn’t it!”

For some reason, the clerk looked at me with horrified eyes, then continued to glare at Ringo while shouting out about her handkerchief in high tones .

“Could it be, you want… more of them?”

“Huh? Well, I guess, if I can get them . ”

When I answered, I found the shopkeeper had swallowed her saliva in one big gulp .

What an overreaction .

“If it’s impossible, then nevermind…”

“Nonono! From the moment I received the money, I’ve been ready for this much!”

“Uh, ok?”

Am I asking for too much here? Something about this makes me nervous . The shopkeeper went on, “I’ll go get a handkerchief! A handkerchief!” . While emphasising the word handkerchief, she sunk away to the back of the store and then came back about two minutes later .

She stood in front of me with an oddly awkward gait, glancing at Ringo again, and

“H-Here . It’s the usual . Hand . Ker . Chief, desu!”

With a bright red face, she hands it to me with both hands like an offering .

It was different from the previous floral one in terms of the feel . This time it was a pure white, luxurious handkerchief with a lace here and there .

(Wait a minute…)

It might be a bit rude to think, but even though she said she had no interest, she still prepared a gift for me . However, the warmth of the shopkeeper’s hand felt from the handkerchief was like the warmness of her heart being poured into the gift, so it made me feel somewhat warm .

I bowed my head with my gratitude as best I could to convey my sincerity .

“Thank you for the wonderful gift . I’ll use this handkerchief with great care while remembering you, so that I don’t forget the warmth of it . ”

I guess it was a little too cheesy . To my words, the shopkeeper replied in a funny voice, turning bright red and slumping down . “A, wa, uwaaaaaa” .

In the meantime, as I stowed my handkerchief in my bag, I heard a muffled mutter .

“Ringo-san . The Esteemed Guest, was more than I could have imagined………

“Ha?”

“No, no! Nevermind! It’s nothing!”

Seeing the clerk waving in a huff, I thought again that she was pretty cute .

“Good day to you, esteemed guest!　Until the next time you come back, please leave the shop to me!”

After all the items had been packed and checked, we received a cheerful but somehow uncomfortable farewell from the clerk, and we left the store .

Ringo didn’t do any shopping, but it seems the shopkeeper personally gifted her with a book . I guess that’s the book she was reading in the store earlier .

I guess it’s fine… It’s fine…

“Ringo, that book from earlier…”

“…?”

“Ah, nevermind, it’s nothing . ”

Defeated by Ringo’s innocent eyes, I gulped down my words .

However, is it just my imagination that the illustrations in the book I glimpsed seemed to depict a half-naked man and woman intertwined with each other? Also, what was it that made you look at me earlier and mutter “…whoopee…on . . ” and then look away?

I can’t help but worry about how Ringo’s going to turn out .

“Well, well, let’s just pull ourselves togetheer and go . ”

I decided to seal up those unpleasant memories . I then decided to go around to all the major stores, and while confirming things this time I’d shop in large amounts .

In the course of the journey, there was an accident where I was separated from Ringo, but I was able to purchase light and wind-attribute equipment at the weapons store, the highest quality (Orichalcum) equipment sold in the royal capital at the armor store, and all the magic books inside the magic store . It’s all done quickly, because there was no need to worry about money . It was quite an enjoyable experience .

In the midst of all this, I took some time to visit an accessory shop . When I went to the shop, I finally realized that I had totally forgotten to try out the ring gear on Ringo .

I gave it a try, but it’s still difficult to put more than three rings on even people like Ringo . It’s not like I can’t force them into it, but…

“I just don’t feel right about it . ”

I had that kind of feeling .

In the end, I resigned myself to the usual ten pieces of equipment limit, and gave two regular strength-boosting rings to Ringo .

“Alright . Now with that we’re done . ”

It was certainly pleasant to be able to spend as much money as I wanted, but it was meaningless if there was nothing to buy in the first place . As for the armor, once you have the orichalcum set, you don’t need anything else, and as for the weapons, you can’t find any weapons that have more attack power than the Golden Sakura sword from the rare drop of the Wild Golden Zlime, let alone the bug weapon, the Shiranui . It would be pointless to go any further .

Well, I’d like to see the offensive power of the Butcher’s Knife in this regard .

“Have I spent a bit too much, I wonder… . ”

When I checked my coin crystal, I found that my remaining money was less than 10,000,000 E . . That’s less than what the item shop demanded earlier .

No, no, it’s still somehow within the acceptable range considering that I don’t have to go to the shops for a while……”

“…Souma” . With a clink, Something touched my coin crystal .

“Ringo, this…”

Ringo brought her coin crystal into contact with mine .

“…Un, use it . ”

I checked to see that another 10 million E was transferred to my coin cristal .

“Ah, Sorry . ”

I thought about giving it back, but Ringo didn’t seem to mind, and this wasn’t the end of my shopping for the day . Rather, it could even be said that the biggest showpiece has yet to come . With that in mind, it wouldn’t be good to run out of money just yet .

This is what we’re going to buy .

It’s the biggest purchase a human would do in their life, and it’s the one that reflects the most out of a wealthy rich boy’s style .

“So then, Ringo . Let’s go and buy a house!

—Time to purchase our home .

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