Seeing her friend enjoy the food so much, Firefly was satisfied.
After all three of them finished eating, Firefly suddenly remembered that she didn’t have much time left to prepare.
She hastily said goodbye to them: “Well then, I will head back first.
There are still a lot of things waiting for me.” “Mm, Firefly, let’s hang out together on your grand opening day.” Belle also said goodbye to Firefly.
Wise corrected: “Little sis, you actually just want to go help out at the cake shop, right?” “But helping Firefly must be a lot of fun too.” Belle didn’t care about that.
Soukaku, on the other hand, was still lingering on the aftertaste of the cake.
“Was that big sister just now the person who made this cake?” Only then did Wise and Belle remember that there was still another person inside the Video Store.
The little girl looked very lively and good at communicating.
“That’s right, that’s my friend Firefly.
She’s opening a shop in Sixth Street in a couple of days, and the products are cakes she makes herself!” “If you like eating them, you definitely have to go check it out.” Belle couldn’t help but advertise for Firefly.
Hearing this, Soukaku’s eyes sparkled with little stars, and she thought to herself that she must go take a look on opening day.
Wise, meanwhile, carefully looked at the Oni girl wearing a uniform.
There was a particularly eye-catching character ‘special’ on her uniform.
If Wise hadn’t guessed wrong, she must be a member of the Hollow Special Operations Unit.
Wise cleared his throat, “Ahem, this customer, we are the managers of Random Play.” “We haven’t asked yet what kind of videotapes you are looking for?” Anyone appearing here must be a customer buying videotapes; surely not a customer from the other side?
The Hollow Special Operations Unit counts as official forces anyway, they wouldn’t look for a wild Proxy, right?
Hearing this, Soukaku remembered the purpose of her coming to the Video Store, and without guard, she said directly: “Actually, I’ve been a bit too idle lately.
Sister Yanagi watches some special videotapes to pass the time when she’s free, but she won’t let me watch with her.” “I wanted to come here and see if there is that kind of special Video Store—ah, what were those videotapes called again?” Hearing this, Wise didn’t show much expression, but Belle’s face flushed slightly.
She really wanted to say that there were definitely no such videotapes here.
“Soukaku remembers now, the videotapes are called “Sharknado”, “The Two-Head Shark Attack”, and “Shark-chan vs.
Squid Girl”.
Do you have videotapes like these here?
I’ve looked for them for a long time and couldn’t find them.” Belle didn’t speak, but her expression said it all.
She wanted to say that there were no such bad movies here.
Wise took over the conversation, “There are no such videotapes here.
If the customer trusts us, we can recommend some to you over here.” Soukaku thought about it and readily agreed.
“If it’s the store managers, you must have watched a lot of videotapes.
Soukaku trusts you.” Afterwards, Soukaku left with the recommended videotapes, and expressed that she would definitely come again in a couple of days.
…
After leaving the Video Store, Firefly didn’t go home, but instead went to the cake shop that had not yet opened.
The renovation was already completed, leaving only the business qualification certificate to be issued by the Public Security Bureau.
Firefly’s business qualification application had been sent to the Public Security Bureau long ago, but the Public Security Bureau still needed to evaluate the shop’s decoration, hygiene, and product quality.
Actually, Firefly’s shop was the back door of the 141 Convenience Store.
This place was originally the warehouse of the 141 Convenience Store, but later the warehouse moved to a larger room on the second floor, so the back door became vacant, mostly used as a place for trucks to unload cargo.
When the manager of the 141 Convenience Store learned that Wise was looking for a place to open a storefront, they enthusiastically rented out their back door warehouse.
Firefly was very grateful to the manager of the 141 Convenience Store, but she wouldn’t know the real reason why the convenience store’s back door became vacant.
Recently, the business scale of the 141 Convenience Store had expanded, and the bulk of the profits came from Hollow supplies.
These items couldn’t be displayed openly, so the warehouse was moved to a larger room on the second floor.
Of course, the convenience store manager wouldn’t know either that the tenant helping to cover for them was an alien who was a cake girl on the surface and the Molten Knight behind the scenes.
Firefly checked the hygiene inside the shop and checked whether the electrical appliances could operate normally.
After everything was checked, Firefly stood behind the counter to admire her shop’s decoration.
The walls were all covered with wallpaper.
Compared to the original glaringly white monotony, the current soft-gloss matte surface was much easier on the eyes.
Paired with the warm lights, Firefly even felt a tiny bit sleepy.
She stretched and was about to fall asleep from exhaustion.
“Please do not slack off and doze off inside the shop.” HQ’s sudden words startled Firefly.
“You…
Never mind.” Firefly didn’t plan to argue with HQ.
After all, it was opening in two days, and she was looking forward to it a bit.
“Although HQ has already acknowledged your ability to make cakes, HQ still must condemn your cheating behavior of issuing a commission to yourself.
This commission will be directly voided, and only the result can be retained.” HQ didn’t seem to be in a good state recently, and even when Firefly was making cakes, it only looped that song Spread the Cream.
And then, right now it seemed to have snapped out of it and discovered Firefly’s cheating behavior.
Not knowing if it had been lectured over there, its calm tone had an extra sense of annoyance.
“Hehe.” Firefly chuckled softly as she walked toward the residential area.
Firefly didn’t feel angry at all right now, nor did she feel any guilt.
She had just tried issuing a custom commission to herself, not expecting that she would actually get HQ’s approval.
A custom cake definitely required someone else to issue the custom commission.
Putting the cart before the horse, this was an indispensable process.
Originally, Firefly planned to find Belle to issue a custom commission for her to practice, but on a whim, she thought—wouldn’t it be fine to just issue a custom commission to herself?
Thus, a Firefly-style custom cake was born.
Ever since eating that custom cake, the corners of Firefly’s mouth hadn’t flattened down.
No matter how absent-minded she was, she should have noticed by this point.
“I suddenly feel like I might have gotten a bit too excited today.” “Incorrect.
To be precise, you are overfilled with happiness.” “First, the relationship between the client and you can be referred to as Party A and Party B.
Party A’s degree of evaluation of Party B’s actions and results will affect Party A’s sense of happiness.” “Once the sense of happiness reaches a bursting level, you will obtain a special effect lasting for a period of time.” “Generally, the level of bursting happiness is hard to reach, but unexpectedly, both Party A and Party B are you.
You are quite satisfied with your own actions and results, and even triggered a special situation: Reminiscence.” “Your sense of happiness increased further, and this special effect directly upgraded into a Blessing.” HQ explained patiently to Firefly.
Firefly felt a bit embarrassed, “Is…
is this serious?” “Yes, very serious.
This Blessing will directly affect your performance, causing every single one of your thoughts to lean toward sensibility.
For the sake of the balance of your thinking process, please let Firefly-1 pay attention to the trigger target of the Blessing.” “Could it be that a Blessing is a bad thing?” Firefly asked in her heart.
“HQ repeats once again, please Firefly-1 pay attention…” Knowing that HQ wouldn’t explain this question, Firefly simply stopped thinking about it.
She took out her phone and tapped on it, opening a chat box after only a slight pause.
[Flying Fire: Anby, I haven’t seen you in a long time.
Are you still taking on commissions recently?] [Anby Demara: Long time no see, Firefly.
Nicole said she made contact with a cat, and apparently some valuables fell into the Hollow.
The other party is willing to hire the Cunning Hares to descend into the Hollow for several times the value of that item.
We’ve been preparing for it these past few days.] [Flying Fire: Is it urgent?
Do you have time these next two days?] [Anby Demara: There should be time.
That cat will probably take some time to prepare.] [Flying Fire: My cake shop is opening very soon.
Can you come on the opening day?
Nicole and Billy can come together too; it’ll be more lively with more people.] [Anby Demara: I’ll tell Nicole.
She will definitely agree.] [Flying Fire: Anby, you were the very first person I saw when I came to New Eridu, so you absolutely must come!]