“Brother, why don’t you go to the black market and sell a kidney?” After seeing the bill, Belle couldn’t help but laugh out of pure frustration, and then she couldn’t resist making a joke; she felt like the video store couldn’t go on like this anymore.
Waking up, it felt like the sky was falling.
Wise: “?” Wise was speechless; it wasn’t like he was the one who used all that electricity, so why should he be the one to sell a kidney?
Why didn’t she suggest he become a gigolo instead?
“Fairy?” Wise’s tone was very gentle; if she didn’t give them an explanation, this matter wasn’t over.
When in doubt, play dumb.
Fairy’s eyes had long since disappeared from the screen, but the siblings knew that Fairy was definitely still there and could hear their conversation.
After waiting for a long while without hearing a peep from Fairy, the two of them were at a loss; with their computer skills, there was nothing they could do about this artificial idiot.
Everything Store.
“Slurp, slurp, slurp—” “Shiro, aren’t you good at cooking?
Why are we eating instant noodles?” Shiro and Senti’s breakfast today was instant noodles; although Senti didn’t mind, it was too monotonous.
“I didn’t buy groceries yesterday, and besides, aren’t there ham sausages and fried eggs?
Isn’t that rich enough?” Shiro was quite satisfied with this meal; with sausage and egg, wasn’t this luxurious enough?
“If you want to eat pickled vegetables with rice or steamed buns, I can prepare that for you right now.” Senti: “Ahem!” “Let’s stick with the instant noodles; instant noodles are pretty good.” Certain memories flashed through her mind; choosing between pickled vegetables with steamed buns and instant noodles with egg and sausage—taking even a second to consider was a sign of disrespect to the latter.
…
“Eat slowly, no one is going to snatch it from you.
Aqua, did you go to work at a construction site?” The ravenous Aqua wasn’t wearing her goddess attire, but rather a construction worker’s outfit: a white shirt, loose olive-green trousers, and a headscarf tied around her head.
“Wuwu, Shopkeeper, this goddess was set up by that guy Kazuma; he dragged me down to the mortal realm, and I spent the whole day working at a construction site,” Aqua said pitifully.
She was a noble goddess, after all!
Why did she have to go through something like this?
If she didn’t defeat the Demon King, she couldn’t return to the Heavenly Realm.
When had she ever been this unlucky?
“Well, good luck then.
If you’re tired, I have a place here where you can rest.” Shiro remembered that the test results for Aqua at the guild showed her intelligence was below average, her luck was rock bottom, but all her other attributes were impeccable.
A goddess, after all—if she didn’t have some strength, what kind of goddess would she be?
Aqua nodded; resting here at Everything Store was indeed quite comfortable.
“I’m full.
If you could come on adventures with us, Shopkeeper, that would be great,” Aqua said, rubbing her slightly bulging belly with satisfaction.
“If you go to fight the Demon King in the future, you can call me,” Shiro said with a smile.
“Okay, this goddess will remember that.” Aqua got up and returned to her own world; she only came here to eat, after all, the food in the mortal realm didn’t taste as good as what the Shopkeeper made.
“Is she really a goddess?
She doesn’t seem very smart.
Come to think of it, she has a kind of intelligence similar to Theresa’s,” Senti pondered, recalling someone similar in her (Fu Hua’s) memories.
Shiro thought about it; Theresa was indeed quite intelligent, but Aqua was probably even more ‘intelligent’ in her own way.
Sixth Street Gym.
“Wise, is there really a discount if two people sign up for a membership together?” Shiro couldn’t help but laugh when he was brought to the gym by Wise.
Not to mention the most difficult-to-use equipment in the gym, he could even lift the entire building the gym was in with his own hands.
“There actually is a discount.
Might as well save what we can; the electricity bill has been over budget lately,” Wise’s tone was a bit bitter.
When they received the latest bill from the power company and saw the amount, he and his sister felt like the sky was falling.
Shiro nodded; he didn’t know that Belle had gone to ‘communicate’ with Fairy, as Belle hadn’t mentioned that.
“Oh my~ isn’t this Shiro the Great Philanthropist and Shopkeeper Wise?” A voice that made one’s skin crawl rang out, and a man with an effeminate air and heavy makeup walked over with a beaming smile, accompanied by the wafting of an overpowering, nauseating perfume.
The expressions of both Shiro and Wise shifted slightly.
This guy was named Neni, a notorious gay man in New Eridu whose reputation was worse than many Hollow Raiders.
He had been beaten into the hospital countless times; it was said that some ill-tempered Hollow Raider had even kicked his ‘little brother’ to pieces, but he still hadn’t changed.
“Get lost.” Shiro couldn’t be bothered to waste words; compared to this guy, the Ethereals in the Hollow looked downright refined and pleasant.
No one would even want this kind of trash as a Hollow Raider.
“You!” “Clang!” Shiro grabbed one end of the barbell with one hand and lifted it effortlessly, as easily as picking up a flyswatter, making people wonder if this 500-kilogram barbell was fake.
The gym owner saw this scene and said nothing, merely looking up at the ceiling—it really was just a ceiling.
Why would a big shot like this come to a gym?
To show off?
He knew all too well the weight behind what Shiro had just done, and he hadn’t even flushed or lost his breath, handling it with ease.
Could he kill a bull-Thiren with one punch?
Seeing this, Neni didn’t dare to speak or approach any further; his foundation-coated face turned even paler, and he quickly walked away, completely cowed.
500 kilograms!
That was nearly the weight of 10 of ‘him’, and lifted in such an outrageous way, holding just one side with one hand—it was inhuman brute strength; it felt like he could spin ‘him’ around like a top.
“Ahem, Shiro, I think you should put that down; don’t drop it on my foot,” Wise said, unable to help himself once the annoying guy had left.
He felt like bringing Shiro to the gym had been a bit redundant; the guy clearly didn’t care for this gym equipment at all.
Shiro nodded and returned the 500-kilogram barbell to its original place.
“Wise, if you plan on working out here, you’d better watch yourself,” Shiro laughed.
If he was the Shiro the Great Philanthropist of Sixth Street, then Wise was the succubus shopkeeper of Zenless Zone Zero.
“I think it’s just right for me to use Eous and Number 06 as dumbbells to work out at home,” Wise spread his hands; anyone who saw someone like Neni would feel disgusted.
“By the way, I have a plan,” Shiro raised an index finger and raised an eyebrow at Wise.
“What?” Shiro didn’t speak; he opened a shopping app and quickly found a bicycle that could generate electricity.
“Let’s just buy this; you can exercise and generate a bit of electricity for your video store at the same time,” Shiro said with a straight face; this plan could be considered killing two birds with one stone.
Although the electricity generation was limited, they could have Uncle Enzo modify it.
Besides repairing Bangboo, he could also repair Smart Constructs, and anything else related to mechanics was a breeze for him.
You couldn’t settle down in Sixth Street without some real skills.
“?” Wise looked at the bicycle with a head full of question marks; although it felt a bit weird, it actually sounded like it made some sense.
“Think about it.” In the end, Wise decided not to sign up for a membership card there; he would just work out at home.
He didn’t want to be taken advantage of by ‘certain people’.
Maybe it’s not a big deal now… maybe it will be later.
“And If you’re enjoying it, drop a Power Stone for me!”