Collecting The Male Leads' First Nights - Chapter 98
Translator: Miki
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Chapter 98
“Oh! It seems you’re interested in this product. I thought it was a must-have item for you, so I brought it in a while ago. The price is… ahem, 10,000 gold. It’s cheap considering the value of the item.”
10,000 gold? So it was an item that couldn’t be bought by using the emergency fund only, she also had to take out the money she possessed.
‘Sigh, it really is a must-have item… But if I spend money here, when will I buy a house? Sevis was singing a song about wanting to move to a nice house… That being said, it would also be awful if I made the wrong choice and experienced a bad ending for decades.’
As Sylvia hesitated to put the item in the basket, Secret quickly added,
“If you don’t buy it now, the price will go higher when you come back again. As the game progresses, the price of essential items will increase.”
“Damn it…”
That was true. He was serious… Whether it was an online game or an offline game, the more you leveled up, the more high-end items appeared, but there was no increase in the price of the same items. She couldn’t believe he was saying that so calmly. Secret knew that the only place to buy game items was the secret shop, so he was abusing his power.
Wasn’t that the harmful consequence of a monopolized market? However, they were items that she couldn’t buy outside the secret shop, so Sylvia barely held back the urge to grab him by the collar while cursing him.
‘He’s really trying to get me to grab this item. I really want to hit him… But I don’t know what will happen if I hit a special NPC recklessly.’
Sylvia clenched her teeth tightly and resisted the urge to use violence against Secret. If she had a lot of money, she wouldn’t even think about something so bad, but the damn money was another problem.
Her wealth definitely increased the more she played the game. In that case, it was despairing why there were so many things she needed, even though she deserved to be relaxed. She wanted to hit Secret right away and steal everything in the shop.
After clenching her fists for a moment, Sylvia remembered that there was no way a special NPC in the game was going to budge, so she decided to put up with it. Above all, it was a real crime, so she stopped herself as she imagined that she might be taken to hell the moment she executed it.
“I… I’ll buy it. I think it’s better to buy it now.”
She put the 〈Ending Regression Ticket〉 into the basket with trembling hands. It was a necessary item in case she got into a bad ending. Secret’s pleased face was really detestable. She tried to think positively and looked through the rest of the items.
The next item was called 〈One After Another〉. Judging from the detailed description, it was just a smoke grenade.
‘What’s the point of giving it such a name? Just call it a smoke grenade.’
It was 200 gold, which was on the cheap side. The emergency fund was already gone, but so what? Did she buy things because she had it in the first place? She could just spend money out of her pocket. She closed her eyes tightly and put two smoke grenades in the basket, in preparation for the dungeon raid.
She wondered what the 〈Midsummer Night’s Dream〉 was. There was a shiny gold liquid moving softly inside a dainty and cute glass bottle, and it looked like a collection of fairy nectar. Judging from the name and appearance, it looked like something very dreamy and beautiful would happen when it was used. When I opened the detailed explanation, a system window popped up in front of her.
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[Midsummer Night’s Dream
– If you drink this sweet nectar, you will sleep soundly as if you fainted while seeing an illusion. Wouldn’t it be better to dream a midsummer night’s dream when you’re in distress?]
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‘You’re sugarcoating it. It’s just a hallucinogen.’
Since it was an R-rated game, there were some questionable items that couldn’t be sold in games meant for all ages. Though she may have a hard time when she goes to the island, she can just eat Luca, a human hallucinogen, to her heart’s content. So, judging that the item was of little use, she shook her head and finished picking what she wanted. As she turned around, Secret approached her and asked, cleverly rubbing his hands.
“You’re not going to buy more?”
At Secret’s words, she pointed to the stand and asked,
“Are these all the new items?”
“Oh my, what a sad thing you are saying! How can there be only four new items? if you’d like, I can guide you to a stand with even more items.”
As Secret gestured at her to follow him and started walking, she went along, excited to see the new items. Then, she came to her senses and paused.
‘No, I can’t. The emergency fund is gone, and I’ve already spent my money. If I follow along, there will obviously be tons of other items I’ll want to buy.
In the 1.5-room cabin right now, I’m forced to live together with Sevis, Limbo, and the bathroom ghost who cries every night. If I just spent money without thinking, I’d become a beggar again. Though, of course, I’m still a beggar… Opportunity makes the thief, so it’s better not to look at the items at all. If I can’t buy a good item after seeing it, I’ll just cry.’
When she thought of the terribly poor house, she thought she shouldn’t go shopping anymore. It would be like making a lot of effort for nothing. Sevis, the butler, would have liked to escape the shabby cabin they had occupied without permission, so wouldn’t it be a shame for his master to spend money like this?
Sylvia struggled with her moody feelings and called Secret, who was heading to another corner covered by a curtain.
“Excuse me, Mr. Secret! I’ll just buy this today. Show me next time.”
“Is that so? There’s a lot of good stuff…”
“Yes. This is enough.”
“Yes, well… So be it.”
Secret said, shrugging at her resolute expression. In her eyes, he looked like an antlion’s death trap. She wouldn’t be able to escape if she went in further. Sylvia, who was powerlessly following behind Secret as he walked to the counter, opened her eyes wide at the thought that suddenly flashed through her mind.
‘Come to think of it, I have to buy Sevis a birthday present! I was so distracted by the things Secret showed me that I completely forgot about it. There’s the present I bought at the festival, but it’s too simple to be a birthday present.’
She didn’t want to spend any more money, but she wanted to buy him something better because what she saw written in ‘My Diary’ in the morning was stuck in her mind. Though she already spent the emergency fund and would need to use the public funds…
She patted Secret’s shoulder, who was taking the lead, to stop him.
“Ah… Do you have any items that a wolf shifter would like?”
“A wolf shifter… Ah! You’re talking about the butler. Please wait a moment.”
Secret, who had entered a door beside the counter, returned after a while with a few items inside a box.
“What do you think? It piques your interest, doesn’t it?”
“No… This is…”
Sylvia couldn’t speak out of bewilderment, and opened and closed her mouth repeatedly. When she looked into the box he had brought out, there were harnesses for adult use, ropes, muzzles, and other embarrassing things that she couldn’t express with her mouth. Brilliant jewels were hanging from parts they shouldn’t be hanging from.
Things that are expensive and people are afraid someone will see… She was dumbfounded as soon as she saw those items, and fanned her reddened face with her hands. This… It wasn’t a good present for Sevis, it was good for her.
‘It seems someone is a pervert!’
Sylvia glared at Secret with a reddened face and shouted,
“Can I get a credit?!”
“Ugh… I’m angry.”
Sylvia trudged along with drooping shoulders. When asked if she could get a credit, Secret adamantly replied, ‘Nope!’ And among the other items, there was nothing to buy as a gift. In the end, she only bought the items she had put in the basket.
‘I can’t believe I can’t get a credit. Businesspeople are so inflexible… Gosh! I shouldn’t have seen that. It only made me feel worse because I saw something I couldn’t even buy.’
She looked at the shopping bag in her hand with a discouraged face. Even the 10 percent discount, which was the effect of 〈Celebrity of Our Proud Village〉 didn’t work for Secret, who had a mercenary attitude.
She spent 14,400 gold to buy the special items, 600 gold for the cheap island items, like the motion sickness medicine and insect repellent, 500 gold for two mana potions, and 300 gold for three health potions, coming to a total of 16,900 gold.
The emergency fund of 9,500 gold was completely used, of course, and an additional 7,400 gold was spent. When she checked her money, the emergency fund section had disappeared, and the remaining amount of money held was 38,000 gold. It seems they had spent quite a bit during the festival.
‘But there’s still quite some money left. That’s right, unless I make big money suddenly, saving up little by little won’t allow me to buy a house for the rest of my life. I bought what I needed, so I shouldn’t feel guilty.’
Sylvia was struggling to pat herself on the back when she saw a suspicious light leaking from the alleyway in front of her. There was nothing here the last time she came, so it was strange.
‘Ah! That’s where those guys wearing grey capes were hammering the other time. Shall I go and see what comes up?’
As she walked around the corner into the alleyway, one of the people in the grey capes she had seen the other day was standing next to a cart illuminated by a small lamp. At a glance, she could see that the small cart contained suspicious items of unknown use. Sylvia snooped closer, and the grey cape guy greeted her.
“Welcome.”
“Ah, yes. Hello.”
The street vendor pulled his grey cape tighter, picked up the items one by one, and put them down.
“There are many things with nice effects, so take your time and look around.”
“Ah, I see you also sell game items like that store over there.”
“Of course. Make your choice.”
As expected, the street stall was selling game items like the secret shop. A street stall. It seemed that the secret shop was not enough; this game intended to rob the players of their money.
‘Well, let’s just take a look. Just take a look, nothing else.’
She decided to just do eye shopping and scanned the cart. But then, she found something strange. It was a cake box, and there was a delicious-looking strawberry cake inside the box, wrapped in transparent plastic so that you could look inside, as in a bakery shop.
“Huh? Why is a cake here? What kind of effect does this have?”
“Ah, this is an ageing cake.”
“What?! Ageing? There wasn’t anything like this in the secret shop!”
An ageing cake? Sylvia’s eyes grew as wide as it was possible. It was perfect as a birthday gift for Sevis. Could this make him an adult?
‘When he reaches adulthood, both his body and mind will be those of an adult, so I have no reason to distance myself. Then, if we leave Limbo in the shelter for a while, ahem… Oh my! The players of this R-rated game have no moment to rest!”
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