“Sister, you’re so pretty!
Can we take a picture with you?” A group of girls surrounded Firefly, and the Thiren leader held up a camera to ask for a photo.
“N-No problem.” Firefly agreed, looking very reluctant.
Upon receiving consent, the Thiren lady immediately took the picture, then shouted while holding the developed camera, “Ah, ah!
Sister, step on me!” It was too bizarre; Firefly wanted to hide, but there were simply too many people to escape.
However, not everyone was there just to look at Firefly’s peerless beauty; quite a few people walked straight into the shop.
“Please queue up to enter the shop and make your selections, and please do not push to prevent stampedes.” Bell consciously broke away from the encirclement and maintained Order.
Bell let five or six people in to buy cakes each time, and the customers buying cakes queued up consciously as well.
Before long, the line extended outside the alley, forming a long queue even on the pedestrian street.
Some people didn’t even know why they were queuing, yet they were still happy to join the line.
In the half an hour that followed, Firefly’s free sample cakes weren’t consumed much, but her peerless beauty had already spread all over the net.
[I took a picture with the super cute big sister at the cake shop!
I’m sure she and Hoshimi Miyabi are the best in New Eridu!] Attached is a photo.
People holding cakes appeared in various shops on Sixth Street.
Some bought cakes without eating them immediately, while others opened and tasted them right away.
As soon as they tasted this flavor, every single one of them felt they hadn’t bought enough and immediately went to find the end of the line to queue up again.
Some people didn’t leave Sixth Street immediately after buying their cakes; instead, they strolled around the shops on Sixth Street.
By this time, Inter-Knot already had a massive amount of discussion buzz, featuring a 3×3 grid puzzle of Firefly’s appearance, with every angle being flawless.
[She’s really gorgeous!
If she appears on the overpass again, I’m definitely going to strike up a conversation with her!
I take back what I said before, the manager definitely didn’t use Photoshop and definitely didn’t use beauty filters!
True bare-faced beauty!] Attached are nine pictures.
Posts about Firefly on Inter-Knot continued to increase, and Firefly Cake Shop became immensely popular along with her.
Not knowing how many guests the cake shop had already received, Firefly suddenly heard Bell’s voice.
“Firefly!
This is bad, a guest reported that the cakes are all gone!” “What?” Firefly was somewhat surprised; after all, the cakes on the shelves could serve at least seventy guests.
Even so, she still apologized to the customer she was taking a photo with: “I’m very sorry, I must leave here to restock.
I’m truly sorry.” Finishing her words, Firefly bowed deeply and then entered the cake shop, apologizing and bowing to the customers queuing outside the door before going in.
After entering the cake shop, she immediately rushed into the back kitchen.
Not long after, she pushed out a small cart piled high with stacked cake boxes.
As Firefly quickly filled the shelves, the incoming customers immediately bought the cakes, took photos with Firefly, and left.
It seemed to have become a necessary routine: guests entering the shop bought cakes, then took photos and left, moving very quickly.
Shortly after, another post would appear online, full of various praises for the cake shop and various compliments for Firefly.
E18’s little hands were practically spinning so fast they were smoking.
Quite a few people paid Dennies using digital payment, and quite a few used physical currency; the Dennies could fill a burlap sack.
Every half hour, Firefly had to restock.
This situation lasted for a full two hours, until the end of the line could finally be seen outside the alley, and only then did Bell let out a sigh of relief.
She walked into the shop and saw that Firefly didn’t look too well, yet she was still reluctantly taking photos with the customers.
The last customer left happily, and Firefly also breathed a sigh of relief.
“Is it…
finally over?” Firefly didn’t dare to be sure, because this was only a morning, and there was still the entire afternoon ahead.
If every day was going to be like this, Firefly would have to consider suspending business for a few days to reorganize the shop.
“It won’t.
Once anything loses its buzz, it will quickly return to calm.
Today’s business storm is nothing more than people’s curiosity about you and the cake.” HQ’s long-absent voice sounded, as if it had been silent for the entire morning.
Perhaps it hadn’t expected things to turn out like this either.
Seeing that the cakes were almost sold out, Firefly went back into the back kitchen to restock.
“Eh?
Firefly, are you still going to keep operating?
You’ve already earned enough today, haven’t you?” Bell was somewhat surprised, especially since she had just seen how utterly exhausted Firefly looked.
“Of course we have to keep going.
The buzz won’t be here every day; we have to take advantage of now to sell more cakes.” Firefly had also thought about just closing the shop for the day like this, but reality told her she couldn’t stop just like that.
She still owed the New Eridu Bank one million Dennies!
The shop’s rental, decoration, and purchase of raw materials had already consumed most of Firefly’s startup capital.
If she wanted to buy the equipment for making cakes, she had to take out a loan from the bank.
If she could pay off the debt a little earlier, Firefly would certainly be more than happy to.
At this moment, a figure entered the shop.
Bell spotted her at the very first moment.
“Manager, I’m here!
Eh?
The Video Store manager is here too?” The incoming person was Soukaku.
“Ah, it’s Soukaku.” Bell immediately came over to Soukaku to greet her.
“I heard today that the cake shop on Sixth Street opened, and Soukaku immediately wanted to come over.
Soukaku asked Sister Yanagi for leave, but Sister Yanagi said she’d only bring Soukaku here after work, so Soukaku sneaked over.” Soukaku didn’t care at all about her behavior of skipping work, and even felt a bit smug.
Firefly also saw Soukaku and came over holding a cake.
“You’re here, hurry up and eat.
There are so many people today, maybe more people will come over in a bit.” Firefly shoved the cake into Soukaku’s hands, casually mentioning how terrifying today’s customer volume was.
However, Soukaku said instead: “More people are definitely going to come.
School will be letting out soon, and office workers are about to get off work too.
There will definitely be even more people then!
This is so delicious, can you give Soukaku some more?
Soukaku brought Dennies!” Hearing Soukaku’s words, Bell finally remembered that today’s guests had all sorts of outfits, looking as if they were very free like some freelancers.
Bell suddenly thought of a terrifying fact, and she opened her phone to check various posts online.
[Why isn’t class over yet!
I can’t wait anymore!] [Not even the Emperor of Overwork can stop me, I want to eat cake right now!] [The boss bought a cake and ate it secretly; he’s not even willing to look at the employees’ resentful gazes.] Bell swallowed hard and said, “Firefly, we’re in trouble.” “Eh?” Hearing Bell say that, Firefly was somewhat surprised.
“Why do you say that?” “It’s almost time for class to let out.” Bell showed her phone.
When Firefly took a look, she could see at least one new post popping up every time she refreshed.
[Class is ending soon!
There’s nothing that can stop me now!] [Smart people have already skipped work!] [How come the road is full of smart people?] [The subway station at Lumina Square is blocked; are these people all lacking basic manners?
Why don’t they just cling directly onto the subway train?] Now Firefly knew: two massive groups from opposite extremes were rapidly arriving at the battlefield.
A group full of vibrant energy and a group of lifeless people mixed together, arriving simultaneously at this tiny Sixth Street.
Firefly didn’t dare to imagine what would happen next.
However, Firefly still calmly shoved the cake into Soukaku’s hands.
“Little Soukaku, please hurry up and leave, otherwise you won’t be able to leave in a bit.” “Eh?
Why do you say that?” Very soon, Soukaku found out why Firefly said that.
Standing at the alley entrance, she saw a huge crowd pouring out of the subway station, charging toward this side.
Even Soukaku had to stand aside.
“I want to try what kind of cake can be praised to the heavens!
None of you better fight me for it!” Students who looked eager to eat launched a charge with lightning-fast strides.
A gust of wind swept past Soukaku, followed by a huge crowd trailing behind.
It might not seem tempting right now but who knows what the future holds?
“And If you’re enjoying it, drop a Power Stone for me!”