It has been 5 days since the new product went on sale.
'Ding~'
"Welcome, customer!"
To be precise, 5 days had flown by in the blink of an eye.
"U-um..."
"Yes~ How can I help you?"
The reason time felt so short and busy was due to the new rule I had added this time.
"L-like I said yesterday... I, I brought my friends..."
"...Huh?"
I had maintained the previous rule of setting a maximum purchase limit per person, but to minimize existing complaints, I added a new clause this time, which
"S-so give me the promised items now!!"
"Sir... if you say it like that, people around might misunderstand..."
far from reducing complaints, received tremendous applause and showed a popularity and sales increase that made comparing it to before seem almost unfair.
"Why, why aren't you giving me the items?!"
Thus, our Miach Familia saw smiles never leaving everyone's faces due to the daily accumulation of money and fame...
"A-are you short on staff?! Is that why?!"
The smiles...
"No, that's not it..."
The smi...
"Then hand over the items quickly!!!!"
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Flashback to 5 days ago: I tried adding a new sentence to the rules to maintain the existing ones as much as possible while minimizing complaints.
"Certainly... with this method, the adventurer customers' complaints should greatly decrease."
"Plus, sales will rise significantly..."
"Right?"
But the day after the new clause was added to the rules
"Finally, the new product!! I wonder what kind of things... huh?"
"Hey hey! If we don't grab them fast, we won't get any... hey, what's wrong?"
"...When purchasing with members of the same Familia, the maximum purchase limit per person... in... creas... es...?"
"...What?"
"..."
"..."
"Call all the guys on break today!!!!!!!"
the shop almost overflowed to the point where there was no room to step.
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Back to the present
"Ha... I'm dying."
Even though 5 days had passed, with no sign of the number of customers decreasing, I was completely exhausted, almost lying back in the chair.
'I feel like I'm going to collapse from exhaustion, but I don't...'
It would have been easier if I had collapsed, but thanks to the Adaptability skill from the administrator, my body was changing to handle more work day by day, and for the first time, I cursed the administrator who gave me the ability.
'Administrator, this is too healthy...'
Putting aside thoughts of the administrator for a moment, when I turned my head, two heads in the same exhausted state, slumped on the table, came into view, and
"...God."
"...What is it?"
Naturally, those two heads were God Miach and Senior Naza.
"I... miss the times when I was fighting for my life in the dungeon..."
"...I understand, but please don't say that..."
"If you leave now, we can't handle it..."
The reason we ended up like this?
"Perhaps we should have hired someone, even temporarily..."
It was simply because we were short-staffed.
"With the three of us handling all the work... it's inevitable..."
"God handles calculations and detecting adventurer customers' lies, senior handles making up for product shortages, and I handle customer service and product explanations..."
"...Seeing it like this, it's amazing we lasted 5 days."
The reason we didn't hire anyone despite this situation?
"Even if we want to hire people, the shop is too small..."
"Ahem..."
Sadly, it was simply because our shop was too small, and even if we hired someone, there was no place to assign them.
"We even rearranged all the usable furniture to not hinder customers from selecting products and moving around..."
To what extent? I had no room to step, so customers had to bring the items to me for me to barely explain them.
"As you said, we maximized the space to make movement easier... but that's reaching its limit now too..."
"Thanks to the popularity of the last bath bomb, I somewhat expected this to happen... but now it really seems like it's time to move the shop..."
Ah, you ask if we have the money to move? I never thought we'd earn far beyond our target amount in just two days either.
On the first morning after releasing the new product, with a moderate number of people, I was leisurely explaining the new product one by one to customers, but the problem was after lunch.
"No matter what, I never thought they'd bring all the female members of their Familia..."
Even now, thinking back to that time makes me shudder unnecessarily.
"Ah... please, don't even bring up stories about the first day... just thinking about it still gives me a headache..."
To what extent? Even Senior Naza, who could endure any difficult situation as long as the income was good, would flinch and click her tongue when recalling that day.
"If we're going to move the shop, it seems better to do it right away..."
"I think so too, but..."
Actually, as soon as we had saved up enough money to meet our target, we tried to move the shop immediately.
"I never knew there were so many procedures needed to change a Familia's residence..."
To move a Familia's location, you have to meet with the building owner of the place you want to move to and the representative of that district's residents, pass checks on the Familia's reputation and various procedures, and only then can you move the Familia's location.
In other words, God had to go personally to make the contract... and here's where the problem arose.
"There's a rule that this type of contract must be done directly by the god of that Familia, so there's no choice..."
"More than anything, if anyone leaves now, the shop won't run..."
"But at least we got permission to come anytime we want to make a contract, so now we just need to find some time..."
"With the current state, that's impossible..."
Moreover, even if we succeed in the contract and move the building, at least one person has to stay with the contractors to remodel the first floor to suit a recovery item shop and check for defects, so inevitably, one person won't be able to help with shop work for a while.
"Well... actually, we could just close the shop for a bit..."
"The moment we stop business, the atmosphere is like they'll start a riot..."
"...In fact, several goddesses begged me to keep working with looks that said they'd kill me if I stopped."
'Is that for real...'
Anyway, due to these reasons, we decided to wait until this commotion calmed down, but the limit came faster than expected.
"...Why don't we just say screw it and take a week off?"
"Should we...?"
"It's hard to receive more customers like this, and the customers are complaining that the shop is too small... let's do it."
Thus, we put an end to the long battle? and finally declared a holiday...
"Ah, no way!!!"
"A-at least release all the reserves before you go!!!"
"Without your products, we'll all die!!!"
...This is the second floor?
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After a bit of commotion, the Blue Pharmacy finally decided to close for a week.
"Sigh..."
So, what was I doing, enjoying a long-awaited holiday?
"Phew... wow, how long has it been since I breathed morning air like this?"
I was doing my morning routine, which I hadn't been able to do for a while due to being swamped with work.
"Luckily, it doesn't seem like my body has stiffened up or anything."
I wanted to add shooting practice to the routine while I was at it, but unfortunately, this was a residential area.
"It seems about time to change the weights, so I should go to the dungeon for the first time in a while to collect materials and earn some money."
Thus, I headed home to gear up for the first time in a long while, but
"This... if I wear it and go like this, it'll probably break right away, won't it?"
I saw my armor, worn out to the point of being on the verge of breaking, almost screaming.
"Hmm... I oiled it and flattened it out whenever I had time to maintain it, but..."
It wasn't that old, but since it had been with me since my first dungeon trip, I had grown somewhat attached to it, so I felt a bit bittersweet.
"...Let's wear it just for today and send it off cleanly."
Believing that even if it broke, I could collect the fragments and entrust them to a blacksmith to fix somehow, I finished gearing up and headed to the dungeon.
"I always feel this, but Orario's mornings are always foggy, well... thanks to that, it's good that attention isn't drawn or anyth... huh?"
As I got closer to Babel, two familiar silhouettes near the elevator came into view, and at that moment, a scene flashed through my mind.
"...No way"
To check if the memory I recalled was correct, I hurriedly approached those two silhouettes, and as a result
"Ha... fuck"
the two people I had hoped it wouldn't be, Bell's advisor Eina Tulle and Loki Familia's Ais Wallenstein, were there having a conversation, and
"It seems like today is the day that Lili bitch traps Bell..."
sure enough, the four adventurers who had just brushed past my shoulder began to fuel my suspicions.
"So, that white-haired kid will soon... fall for Arde's trap, right?"
"Yeah, after that, it's obvious anyway"
"Don't mess up, you guys"
"Understood, boss"
Thanks to the adventurers who just passed by, my suspicions turned into certainty, and
"Ha... now I can't pretend not to know even if I wanted to"
I immediately started running towards the 10th floor.