Suo Suto looked at the two copper coins lying quietly beside the snake’s corpse and felt a little surprised.
Where exactly had they dropped from?
Was this like the game setting where monsters dropped money?
Did a snake count as a monster?
Aside from money, would there be experience points?
After thinking for a moment, Suto opened his [Status Panel] and took a look, but there was nothing like an experience bar inside.
Looks like there wasn’t any.
Suto closed the system panel, bent down, and picked up the two “copper coins” from the floor.
They felt cool to the touch, and they didn’t seem any different from real copper coins.
They had clearly burst out of the snake’s corpse, yet there wasn’t even a trace of blood on them.
They hadn’t even picked up a bit of dust from the floor.
On the front was the pattern of a large circle.
On the back was the pattern of a small circle.
Aside from that, there were no other patterns or words.
Suto was curiously examining the copper coins in his hand when the landlady’s weak voice came from outside the door.
“S-Suo-kun… are you okay?”
Suto put the copper coins into his pocket and turned back to reply, “I’m fine.
I already killed the snake, so you can come in now.”
“Really?”
“Really.”
The landlady cautiously poked her head in.
When she saw the dead snake on the floor, she patted her chest, let out a long breath, and said, “Thank goodness!
Suo-kun, you’re amazing!
I’m so glad you were here to help.
Otherwise, I really wouldn’t have known what to do!”
Suto pointed at the snake’s corpse on the floor and asked, “Do you want to keep this?”
The landlady shook her head hard.
“No, no!
Suo-kun, please throw it away for me!
I don’t dare touch it!”
“Fine.”
Suto took a garbage bag, used it to pick up the snake’s corpse, tied the bag shut, and lifted it.
Then he picked up his baseball bat and said, “I’ll be going first then, Miyuri-san.”
The landlady thanked him again and again, then saw him off at the door.
Suto went to the outdoor garbage area.
This was the apartment’s internal garbage station, where someone would come to collect and sort the trash.
Seeing that no one was around, Suto put the baseball bat in his hand into his inventory.
He lowered his head and looked at the garbage bag, then thought for a moment.
Since the snake was a “monster” that could drop copper coins, then its body might also be some kind of “material,” right?
It would be too much of a waste to just throw it away.
Maybe it would be useful in the future.
Suto directly put the garbage bag in his hand into his inventory too, then turned and left.
As he walked down the street, Suto took out the two copper coins that had dropped from killing the snake and observed them in his hand.
Large circle…
Small circle…
He had absolutely no idea what they were supposed to represent.
But for now, knowing that wasn’t important.
Suto put one of the copper coins back into his pocket, then tried storing the other copper coin in his hand into the inventory.
Unlike the baseball bat, the copper coin did not enter an item slot by itself.
Instead, it directly disappeared.
Suto looked toward the upper-left corner of the inventory.
The icon that looked like a wallet had changed to:
[0 gold coins, 0 silver coins, 1 copper coin.]
Suto formed the thought of wanting to take out one copper coin.
A copper coin immediately appeared in his hand again.
At the same time, the text behind the wallet icon changed to [0 gold coins, 0 silver coins, 0 copper coins.]
So that was how it worked.
Coins would directly enter the wallet and wouldn’t take up inventory space.
Very convenient.
Suto took out the other copper coin from his pocket and stored it together with the first.
Now, he had a basic understanding of the concept of coins, where they came from, and how to store and withdraw them.
The next thing he needed to confirm was which animals the system would judge as “monsters,” allowing him to make money drop by killing them.
It was just that it was already a little late today, and Beika Town was far too unsafe.
To be safe, he should leave that for tomorrow.
Suto took out the phone the system had given him and found the nearest ramen shop on the map.
He went to the shop and ate a bowl of tonkotsu ramen.
After simply filling his stomach, Suto went to the bank and inserted his card into the ATM.
There was 500,000 yen in the card.
It wasn’t a lot, but it was enough for him to use for now.
Suto directly withdrew 100,000 yen in cash from the card.
He looked up at the camera, walked out of the bank, and only after reaching a street corner and confirming that the surroundings were safe did he put the cash into his inventory.
The cash occupied a separate item slot.
The system wallet did not accept this kind of money.
Suto took out his phone and followed the map navigation to a supermarket, where he bought some daily necessities and food.
When he came out of the supermarket, he was carrying two large bags.
There were many people here, so it wasn’t convenient to directly put them into his inventory.
Just as he was about to call a taxi back, Suto suddenly noticed a sign at the street corner.
[Seto Fisheries]
There were also a few smaller words beneath the sign:
[Beika Town Branch].
“Seto… Could it be mermaids?”
Suto felt a little curious.
After thinking for a moment, he walked toward the shop.
The interior of this seafood store was very spacious, and the floor was especially clean.
There also wasn’t that usual rotten fish smell common in seafood shops.
“Welcome to Seto Fisheries!
What would you like today, sir?”
A young female clerk near the entrance greeted him enthusiastically.
“I’ll take a look first.”
“Of course.
Please look around as you like, sir.
You can leave your things at the counter for now, and if you need anything, just call me anytime!”
“Mm, thank you.”
Suto felt that the service in this shop was quite pleasant.
He put down the things he had just bought, walked around the store, and discovered that most of what was sold here were high-end ingredients.
Almost all of them were alive too.
Suto stopped and looked at the long sea eels and huge lobsters inside the glass tanks, his expression thoughtful.
Since snakes could be judged as “monsters,” could these things count too?
Suto really wanted to buy two and take them home to kill and test them out, but after glancing at the price tags, he silently gave up on that idea.
Forget it.
Tomorrow, he could just go to the market and buy a chicken or a duck to test it.
Suto returned to the counter and took back the things he had left there.
Although he hadn’t bought anything in the shop, the female clerk didn’t show him any displeased expression.
She still smiled as she saw him out, welcoming him to come again next time.
“The products are pretty good, and the service is nice too.
It’s just a bit expensive.”
Suto did not see Seto Sun or Seto Gozaburo in the shop.
Most likely, it was because this place was only a branch store.
After walking out of the shop, Suto looked at the sign of the neighboring store.
There was an image of a cow drawn on it.
[Mito Meat Products]
The words behind it were the same: [Beika Town Branch].
“Even the store owned by Mito Ikumi’s family from the Food Wars!
has appeared… Just how many works has this world fused together?”
Suto did not go into the beef shop to take a look.
After all, what a beef shop sold was already slaughtered and cut meat.
There wouldn’t be any live cows for sale.
With his current savings, buying an entire live cow would be pretty hard too.
“Still, I don’t actually need to buy a whole live cow.
I only need to complete the killing step.
If I ever get the chance to know Mito Ikumi, maybe I can use her connections to go experience killing a cow at her family’s slaughterhouse…”