Man it's been a while since I made something like this. I kinda felt like I needed to though as after reading literally every comment and review I've found that a lot of people seem to misunderstand several things about this story. I'm not angry or anything but the comments and especially the negative reviews built off these misunderstands sting quite a bit so i'm here to clarify things.-
First and foremost is the actions and behavior of the MC. Like I get he's been kinda stupid at some points and even seemingly illogical at others but there IS a reason for that. To start with lets talk about his background during his previous life. He worked at Walmart and wasn't someone who had years of sales experience and a multibillion dollar empire. This is why he's struggling so much with actually being a merchant, he's inexperienced and frankly ignorant how to do it like a pro. He's winging it basically and it shows.-
Second is many people have probably paid it no attention but he died. And not in a way where it came so suddenly that he barely even knew it happened. He went out slowly and incredibly painfully, that sticks to you. In his own way he's still coping with that and it's making his way of thinking off or downright inconsiderate of the consequences of his actions past himself. He's a damaged soul with a fresh new chance and an overwhelming amount of expectation and power from the get go, he'll need time to mellow out.-
Finally we have the system and all it's functions. Frankly a lot of you are taking these functions way out of hand. For example I keep getting questions why he doesn't just take the good part of a devil fruit and leave the curse out of it. The answer is because the curse is innate to devil fruits. No curse=no powers. That world is just balanced like that. Another example of a trade that makes no sense is someone wondered why he couldn't send away his injuries. Injuries aren't "things" that can be traded away, they are a part of the body. -
The things he can trade for such as skills, abilities and even potentially souls are all clearly defined things. Skills are just knowledge, abilities are extra stuff people could have. This is why he could get haki and even the one piece physique, not Whitebeards physique but the physique that makes it possible for literally everyone in that world to grow so powerful. For skills I even made it clear that they would be differing depending on the source. For example his haki skill was a direct copy of Whitebeards own knowledge on how to use haki. If the skill were from say Enel however it would only cover his understanding of observation since that's all he knows.-
Abilities are similar if there is an innate difference in each owner of an ability. Conquerors haki for example is found only in a select few so naturally the version of the haki ability he'd get from people may or may not contain it based on it's source.-
Next up is the shop that was less misunderstood but still had some trouble. As it was explained at the start the shop has items from HIS world and only his. That means Harry potter exclusive items and that's it. Does this make it harder for him? Yes it does. But it was also intentional since I wanted him to have a legitimate reason to trade across the multiverse rather than connecting to a world and just having it's entire selection of stuff available to him.-
Finally is everyone who was saying the story was a power fantasy. Yes you are all correct this IS a power fantasy. But it's not the sort where everything is sunshine and rainbows all the time. His injuries were proof of this. He started to get cocky and paid for it, plain and simple. -
Now to the special mentions.
Will he ever get a world to trade with he doesn't know? Yes, yes he will but I won't spoil it.
Will he ever travel to other worlds? Also yes but ONLY temporarily and only with very specific conditions that will be explained as it comes up.
What about romance or lemons? To put it bluntly I don't like writing romance. This is clear in literally all of my other stories up to now and it's not changing. For this particular story I don't think the very idea of romance is a good one. Could it maybe work out? Yes but it doesn't fit, it's not something he would actively encourage as a character and would probably play dense to avoid if anything. I know some of you love seeing romance, maybe it's even a mandatory thing for you but this story probably won't have it and i'm not sorry about it.-
For everyone who has read this far congratulations, have a cookie.
Sincerely Loskro