Gacha Game Female Characters Become Obsessed with Me

‘Ark’s General Store’.

It’s truly a terrible naming sense, but since it’s a shop bearing ‘my’ name, I feel a bit of ownership.

However.

Ark’s General Store was on the verge of going to shit.

“No, when did it become like this…”

Clearly, right after I was incarnated, the drawer under the counter was teeming with gold coins.

Can I see the bottom now…?
Am I going to go bankrupt at this rate…?

It was a critical crisis.

Of course, the cause was clear.

There’s no money because we’re in the red.
It’s a conclusion that even Lumi’s intelligence could draw, not even economics but just elementary school arithmetic level.

Then why is there a deficit?

It was due to the abnormal structure of the general store.

Because we were bound by a system where points could only be accumulated by managing popularity and reputation.
We also had to purchase miscellaneous items that made you wonder what they were even for.

But on the other hand, what about the heroes?
If ten people force-sell me trash, maybe one out of them will buy that trash.

The deal doesn’t work out, the deal.

“Sigh.”

What I’m casually tossing around with my hands now is one of those pieces of trash.

Slime mucus.

…I was just fiddling with it, feeling like I was playing with liquid monster.

I briefly had the bad thought that if there were more men in the neighborhood, I could make and sell items for ‘that kind of use’ with this and it would sell well.

I rejected it because it didn’t seem good for hygiene.

And.
Secondly, it was partly my fault too.
No, not partly, but a lot…

It’s human psychology to want to spend recklessly when you see a pile of gold coins.

I threw a large sum into rebuilding the Guild House.
I also clanged and banged to build a blacksmith to commemorate safely breaking through the 3rd floor of the tower yesterday.
…It’s definitely not because the gacha failed miserably again and I flexed out of frustration.

Of course, the blacksmith is in a state of closure.
What can I do without a blacksmith, damn it.
I’ve never even touched iron…

I asked our hero party’s ultimate insider, the queen of F2P, who downs beer in one shot but sips potions, Ari-nim, to ask around.

But there’s been no news so far.

Even if I bring someone, it’s a problem.
I’d have to pay wages…

Isn’t there a good solution?

Should I give up on the experience dungeon and just run the gold dungeon for a while?
Is that all I can do?

This is all because of the Revealer.
Originally, the Revealer should be buying things from my shop with money, creating a circulation of wealth.

“Haah.”

Just as I sighed so deeply the ground might cave in.

Ding──

“We’re closed for today… Oh, has it become that time already?”

The blonde tanned cool muscular beautiful female warrior.
The foreman of our Guild House construction crew.
Brown-san, who feels like a comrade now even though we haven’t contracted, came to present the bill again today.

Daily wage settlement.
I have to do it.
I have to give what I owe…

While shedding tears of blood in my heart.
But not forgetting the customer service smile on my lips.

“Here you go. You worked hard today too.”

I handed over a heavy money pouch containing the wages for all crew members.

It’s fulfilling to see it gradually becoming quite a decent apartment complex beyond just a barely livable place day by day.

But the expenses are high.

Should I do some layoffs soon?
Should I do some sword dancing?

“Um, Ark.”

“Ah, yes yes.”

“Is that thing not left much these days…?”

“Huh? What thing?”

“You know, that thing. The one that gives you strength when you drink it.”

You mean the Elixir of Growth?
Actually, I have some extra.

Because the materials to raise a character’s rank up to 3 ranks still have limited purchase quantities, I’ve already raised Lumi, Ari, and even Yohena to level 30.

Well.
Now the lowest grade potions barely make a dent in their experience bars.

“…Just this once.”

“Yippee! As expected of Ark! Thanks!”

Watching her snatch it from my hand and down it in one shot, a question suddenly occurred to me.

“Brown-san. What effect does drinking that potion have?”

For contracted heroes, there’s the intuitive effect of leveling up that’s visible.

But for non-contracted people like Brown-san, what kind of effect does it have?

Does the level increase in advance?

“Hmm, after drinking it, I feel like I’ve gotten stronger?”

It is level up.

“And when I’m exhausted, if I drink it, I suddenly feel full of energy?”

Leveled up and HP filled.

“Anyway, kuh, if I had the money, I’d want to buy and drink them like crazy.”

“I see. Thank you for telling me.”

“I’ll keep it a secret from the kids! Well then, bye!”

And so, Brown-san left while jingling her pouch.

And I felt like.
An epiphany was shimmering before my eyes.
With the feeling of the scent of money tickling my nose.

I opened my inventory to check the stock.

[Inventory]

Lowest Grade Elixir of Growth x65
Low Grade Elixir of Growth x9

It’s not exactly plentiful, but.

Since I can click and copy using the shop points I haven’t used at all yet for sales quantity reset.

I saw it.
The thread of opportunity!

Originally, business can’t be done by one’s power alone.
I needed a reliable business partner.
Of course, I also had to verify whether the idea product actually had an effect.

Ding─

The place I entered, taking in the cheerful bell sound, was the Meeting Tavern.

This is where I picked up Ari before.

And it could be said to be the most lively place in this city currently.

As the tower is conquered, various materials are produced en masse by the heroes’ hands.
Those materials are bought by some sucker, no, shop owner while crying.
With that money, the heroes drink alcohol to relieve the day’s fatigue.

Today’s goal is the apex of that food chain.

“Madame, hello?”

Chicken coop, no, Madame Le Pensée.

5-star ranged debuffer.
Her performance was quite excellent, so she had a high adoption rate especially in PVP.
But opinions were sharply divided due to the chicken coop vibe strongly felt from her illustration and in person.

“My my, our cute little shop boy. Did you come to drink? Or did you come to find your little deer? The little deer is over there.”

Even her way of speaking was a factor in people’s love-hate relationship.

Ari…
You’re drinking on your day off…

“Um, it’s about something else today. It’s about business.”

“Hmm? Business? Did you perhaps get some good snakes for brewing alcohol?”

“It would be better if you came to the shop later to see that for yourself. Um, the thing is. Ahem.”

I cleared my throat once because I felt like my way of speaking was about to become strange.

“Since there aren’t many customers during the day, I was thinking of doing business at night too. I thought I’d sell some alcohol casually while doing some light trading.”

Actually, most of the trading volume was concentrated between 4 PM and 6 PM.

The saint’s schedule ends in the morning.
Ari is just unemployed all day.
Lumi was also barking all day in the Guild House.

Run the tower during the day, do business at night.
And night business is of course water business.

And that water is going to be a ‘slightly special’ water.

“Hmm, are you declaring that you’re going to compete with me now, little one?”

“No way, of course not. I’m not going to do large-scale business like that, just literally on the side? Just about the size of the Madame’s counter. You know how small our shop is.”

“Hmm, that’s true. It is a bit small, isn’t it?”

Good.
She’s halfway convinced.

“Things like beer are a bit complicated, so I just want to try making cocktails lightly. That should be fine, right?”

Since this place mainly sells beer and food.
I appealed that the target customer base is completely different.

“Hmm, that much should be fine? I might want to come visit sometimes too. Alright. But you have to pay the proper price, okay?”

“Of course.”

Persuasion successful.

It’s a bit troublesome, but originally small business owners have to crawl on their hands and knees before big corporations to survive.

Let alone doing business in the same industry in a small neighborhood?
You need to do these formalities to avoid trouble later.

With a refreshed mind, I walked over to Ari’s table.

“Ari? Can you help me?”

“Huh? Huuh? It’s Ark. …Right now?”

“I’ll let you drink. Something delicious.”

Slosh slosh.
I shook a bottle of vodka I got from the Madame earlier.

“That’s right, Ari’s friend there? Your name?”

“It’s Harong!”

“Okay, Harong-ssi, come with us too.”

I also secured a 3-star test subject whose name I couldn’t even remember.

“Here, carry this for me.”

“……”

“It’s heavy.”

I also secured a porter.

It’s a very unmanly action, but I was confident.

As for me, I have weak strength below the average adult male.

But Ari?
As befitting a hero who received a revelation, she was several times stronger than me. From the beginning, she was fundamentally a different race.

“I’ll help too!”

So Ari carried one crate of alcohol.
Harong-ssi also carried one crate of alcohol.

Heave-ho, heave-ho.
Come on, strength.

“Nyaah… I can’t drink anymooore…”
“Ark-ssi, Ark-ssiiii. Show me your face again. Hmm?”

While Ari was wandering the netherworld by the power of pure alcohol.
And Harong, who had tasted my special cocktail to her heart’s content, was drunk and making a fuss.

“Hehehe, hahahahaha!”

I burst out in hearty laughter.

The miraculous recipe completed after several trials and errors.

Cheap orange juice 1/2.
Alcohol 1/4.
Lowest Grade Elixir of Growth 1/4.

Lower the unit price with orange juice.
Get drunk from the hard liquor.
And the Elixir of Growth effect is fully exerted!

If this isn’t creative economy, what is?
The energy of the universe is gathering to me.

“Ugh, I drank well. I’ll go first, okaaay? Ark, I can come here to drink from tomorrow, riiiight?”

[The customer was satisfied.]
[Popularity increased by 1.]
[Reputation increased by 1.]

This is it!

Because it was treated as a normal ‘sale’ at the shop.
The shop’s reputation up, popularity up!

I was very satisfied.

With this, we can recover from the deficit and turn a profit in one go!

“Yes, go home safely.”

As I turned around after seeing Harong-ssi off in a good mood.

“Nyaah…”

“……”

Ari sprawled out completely, snoring.

What can I do?
It’s my fault for making her drink so much.
I should carry her and dump her at the Guild House.

Hey, but.
You did look into the blacksmith, right?
Surely you weren’t just drinking and fooling around without looking into it.