Chapter 142: We still need a professional gigolo

142.

These ugly things that look too abstract are called——

cursed spirit.

A line of notes follows: Most cursed spirits are born from the negative emotions released by humans, and are called "curses."

Bridge bean sack——

Now is the turn for Lugamos to make his debut.

As passers-by look at you as a weirdo, you sit down next to a street lamp, touch the bottom of your helmet and start thinking: these abstract things are actually the ingredients of a food stall... Never mind.

Curse spirits are born from negative emotions, and Frey is also born from your negative emotions, so Frey is a curse spirit; Curse spirits are a food ingredient in food stalls, and Frey is a curse spirit, so, Frey is——

You gasp.

Reserve ingredients!

Frey, who can basically sense what you are thinking: "...Are you going to use Feed on me?"

Without waiting for you to make excuses, he said calmly: "That's fine. The ether stored in my body was plundered from you..."

"Eat me, and I will return to your heart and become your strength once again."

Your face wrinkled under the helmet: No, man, why does that sound weird?

Not so good, it's a bit too ambiguous.

Was Frey stimulated by the NPC in the main game? When it was on mobile, he would encourage you to develop new dishes and help you find ingredients. He was not as... uh, eloquent as he is now?

You raise your hands and bang on Frey's cans. "Don't worry, Frey. If you get irritated, you can fix it by patting it."

After all, that's how your mom used to fix old appliances.

What's more, for an NPC who likes to say ambiguous words and disturb you when you open your big cause, a knife expert in Honmaru is enough. A good friend of the Dark Knight and a good assistant of the food stall should not do this.

Alas, every day I have to worry about the players being too popular with NPCs.

Frey's red eyes, peeking out from the seams of his helmet, revealed a sense of speechlessness.

He drew out his heavy sword, and in front of the horrified eyes of passersby, he chopped down a level 4 curse spirit. Then, with your exclamation of "Oh", he handed you the rolled curse spirit ball: "I will help you achieve your goal..."

"Now, let's get back to our store."

On the way back to the food stall from the streets of Tokyo, you and Frey caught a few more fresh ingredients.

[Your store's "Iron T Fire Fighting" has been upgraded to level 5]

[You can recruit employees from Honmaru]

[Your current number of employees: 2 (upper limit: 8)]

It’s really not easy. You have been running a store using a mobile terminal for three years, and you have only now upgraded your store to level five. It makes me cry.

Before shutting down the system, you noticed an additional icon on the system panel: Perceptual Filter.

Perception... filter? What is it? The system doesn't give you any explanation, so out of curiosity, you turn the perception filter from "off" to "on".

The next second, you saw the fourth-level cursed spirit that was originally baring its fangs and claws in front of you suddenly turned into a fragrant and soft——

flying steak.

So the food on the mobile terminal looks so delicious, is it because the sensory filter is automatically turned on? !

However, if the perception filter is not turned on on the mobile terminal, the cursed spirits are also in the form of pixel creatures, so they will not cause more sanity, right?

You just don’t dare to imagine what other people in the store think when they see you using such ugly ingredients to make all kinds of food that you don’t know if the real appearance will also be ugly…

No wonder after playing for so long, your only customer is Geto Suguru!

Oh, when you think about it this way... your mind starts to race again. Actually, Geto Suguru isn't a normal person either, right?

After all, normal people won't come to your store to eat food that makes their sanity level drop wildly.

It has come to this——

You calmly close the system panel.

In fact, you have never turned off your perception filter, and you don’t know that the things that can fly, jump, and swim are various kinds of cursed spirits.

You are just a hard-working auntie next door who loves to kill fish, and you don’t know anything else.

*

"Ah, the manager is back?"

Ye Dou, who was wearing sportswear and a white headscarf, was cleaning the store. When he saw you walk in, he immediately put down his work and ran over to you: "The store was suddenly expanded just now, and I knew the manager was back."

Well, although his jaw dropped when he saw this scene for the first time...even the gods in Takamagahara can't create new things casually.

However, after he fell into this unknown world, he noticed that this strange store manager had a faint divine power around him... Maybe the gods in this world are different from those in their world?

I don’t know when I can return to my original world. Ye Dou sighed, biting his handkerchief and crying silently. I’m so jealous…

He also wants to have many, many believers, many artifacts that worship him, build a huge shrine, and own a piece of land in Takama-ga-hara.

"By the way, Shinji-kun..." Even though he knew you wouldn't respond, Yedou still tiptoed over to you and whispered, "It's my wedding anniversary soon, so I went to the horse racing secretly."

No wonder you didn't see Fushiguro.

Speaking of which... you fell into memory. Not long after Fushiguro Shigeki joined the food stall, his wife fell ill. At that time, the game popped up an "event mission" for you.

It probably means that your excellent employee encountered a family tragedy, and after careful observation, you actually detected an unknown aura from him...

In order to increase employees' loyalty to the store, I hope you can give them props that can help them get rid of bad luck.

It seems like you gave Ishikiri Maru's coin and Taro's sword's hair rope to Fushiguro Shijiro - these are duplicate items that you collected while exploring around Honmaru. Giving them to NPCs can not only complete the quest, but also clear the backpack memory.

After the pixel man Fushiguro Shijiro took the things, a string of ellipsis appeared on his head.

You know, Fushiguro Shiji must have been speechless with the gift you gave him. From his sudden increase in favorability, it can be seen that this NPC must have liked your gift very much.

After Fushiguro Shige's child was born, he brought the imaginary baby to the store and walked around, apparently wanting to give the child to you to raise as a return gift.

But you think this is against the law and regulations, and babies cannot generate income, so you choose to refuse.

However, after seeing the baby, red hearts kept appearing on Pixel Night Fighter's head, and after a while, a dialogue box popped up: "Shin'er-kun, your child's soul is great. Can I predict his soul after his death?"

Then he was beaten by Fushiguro Shigeuchi and several big pixel bags appeared on his body.

Well, thinking back on it, even though the food stall has had very few customers, your employees still left behind many interesting stories.

But employee...your blue eyes under the helmet flashed a strange light, it's better to be free!

So you set up some of the most arrogant blades in Honmaru as store employees.

【You have successfully recruited a new employee】

[You have set the store staff to: Dahannya Nagamitsu, Otsuya Keimitsu, Candakiri Mitsutada, Azuki Nagamitsu, Jikyu Mitsutada, Fukushima Mitsutada]

[You have set the outbound employee to: Yato (Yotsu), Fushiguro Shiori]

Wearing an apron and holding a spoon, Candelabra Mitsutada looked up blankly: "Mo?"

Xiaodou Changguang, who was making rock candy with Qianxin Jingguang just a second ago, looked at the lid in his hand, then looked around: "Huh?"

Originally wanting to give his younger brother a "surprise", the two men, Mitsutada Fukushima who was holding a Christmas hat and Mitsutada Jikyu who was holding a huge white beard of Santa Claus, put the things behind their backs as if nothing had happened when they saw Mitsutada Candakiri.

Xiaolong Jingguang, who had just returned from a battle, was still wearing his colorful battle uniform. He stood in the store and looked around, somewhat excited: "Is this a new journey with the master? I will record it carefully."

After finishing the wine in the cup, the lightly dressed Mahāprajñā Changguang chuckled, "Master, did you summon us because you felt lonely? Then I must compensate you... I'm really curious about what expression Master would show now."

The smell of this little cowherd comes up all of a sudden.

You couldn't help it and blew a very long rogue whistle at the Great Prajna Light.

"I understand." Candelaike Mitsutada put the spoon on the table beside him and smiled helplessly, "Does this mission have anything to do with the kitchen? Really...

"Then let's do it handsomely."

“Ah, no.” You denied Candakiri Mitsutada’s idea, saying innocently, “You are here to work as store clerks.”

Let the knife experts distribute flyers and sell the exquisite colors of knife skills to attract more customers to give you money.

"Manager, you can talk?!" Ye Dou let out a weird cry, "No, am I fired? No, why do you have so many Zombies? Are they all your artifacts?!"

Damn it! Yato, who had just received the resignation letter from the previous artifact, had tears in his eyes. He... He was a god with a big shrine in the future, so he would not envy the store manager's artifact, which was just a mere funeral god...

Wow, why does the store manager have so many magic tools? I'm so jealous and want them so much!

"Artifact?" You turned to look at Ye Dou, a little curious, "What is it?"

"Ah... Manager, you know I'm not the god of this world, right?" Yato began to explain the knowledge of gods and divine weapons to you, "In my world, souls with obsessions can 'survive'. If the gods give each other a name, this soul may become a weapon of the gods."

"But the relationship between God and the artifact..." Yato touched his chin, "If the artifact shows negative emotions, it will degenerate into a monster, and God will bear the sin of the artifact..."

However, he did not see the souls of the dead in this world, but there were many curses... Is it true that the energy system is different?

What is the reason for the store manager's existence? A body entangled by spiritual power, divine power, huge curses and blessings, and various connections that make his scalp tingle at the mere sight of him...

It's so scary. I feel like I can't cut it all clean even if I use a magic weapon for a whole day.

Yato didn't say anything else. He turned around and looked at the busy swords with envy: "That's great. The sword Fukushin is a divine weapon among divine weapons. You, the store manager, actually have six of them..."

I see. The relationship between the artifact and God is... the relationship between a lender and a loan guarantor, right?

You just saw Yato's eyes almost popping out of his head with envy, so you didn't have the courage to tell him that, in fact, you have more than a hundred such powerful artifacts in your Honmaru.

“But…” Yedou turned his head and gave you a brilliant smile, “I’m very grateful to the manager for taking me in.”

Otherwise... He lowered his head somewhat dejectedly and laughed at himself. An unknown Noragami like him would just disappear in this strange world, right?

So... you took the initiative to recruit Yedou? Look away. Didn't the employee come to you on his own initiative? And then you hired him because he was only 5 yuan, which was super cheap?

But your employees all think so, and as a good boss, you naturally won't argue. You answer with confidence: "Yes, I am such a kind-hearted person. I will take in homeless people... I will go clean the kitchen later."

"Yes, yes..." Ye Dou, who picked up the broom, responded, "I, the Night Dou God, have heard your wish."

The few knife-wielding guys who overheard your conversation with Ye Dou had thoughtful expressions on their faces.

Just as you were about to see what would happen if you used the chef profession to process cursed ingredients in the holographic game, you heard a commotion coming from the store door.

"Hey, Jay, is this the Curse Spirit Food Stall you were talking about?"

Unknown arrogant voice

"Hmm...it seems to have expanded again."

Oh, your only regular customer, Xia Yujie, is here.

"Tsk, kid, didn't I tell you that the boss hasn't been around lately... Oh, it looks like he's back, and the store has gotten bigger again."

Your food stall is on the run, and occasionally the horse racing clerk has returned.

"Well, it seems the manager knew I was coming in advance."

"Tsk, narcissistic boy."

"Oh? Jay, now that you mention it, I'm even more curious about this store."

"Satoru, don't use such an immodest self-proclaimed name... and the store manager is dumb, so you should be more respectful."

Dumb? Who? You?

I was so angry. Isn't there no dialogue option on the mobile version? Why do you say you are dumb? You took out the bulging cans from the store.

"Ah, Manager." Kagome noticed you and smiled softly, "Long time no see."

“Wow,” you blurt out, “what a weird bang.”

The black line on the face of the pixelated man is actually bangs, not stray lines or scars that were forgotten to be erased. You glanced at Geto Suguru again and thought for sure, well, the pixelated version is actually realistic, and his eyes are so small.

Summer Oil Jie:?

"Wait... you can speak?" Xia Yujie's eyes widened, "No, this is the first sentence you said to me?"

"Shouldn't I?"

You instinctively retort, but then you think that he is the only customer in the store, so you should be more friendly.

"Dear guest, please give me money."

Does this tone seem too distant? You put on your kindest and most compassionate tone and speak:

"Xiao Jie is here? And he brought two friends with him? I'll add two sausages to your steamed bun later."

Okay, this time your copy character is the amiable Aunt Ruga.

"No, wait..." Xia Yujie nodded dizzily, "You...you are a woman?"

The two expatriates who had been listening and had no idea of ​​your gender were both dumbfounded.

“You don’t like it?” You lowered your voice and put on a pretentious sexy bubble voice, “Then do you like uncle? Uncle will give you an extra fried egg.”

"...No, just be normal, thank you."

Tsk, what a tasteless NPC.

You snatched the sunglasses from the stranger's white-haired face, put them on your helmet, and went into the kitchen unhappily. Then, you took out the strange-smelling seasoning bought from the mall from your backpack and let out a strange laugh.

Hehehe, you have to put popping candy with concentrated mustard, coriander and green pepper juice flavor into Xia Yujie's curse ball!