18-Episode 17 "Internet Shopping"



Well, we'll get on with it.



 After finishing the dinner I made, I decided to immediately test out my new skill, 'online shopping', to see what it was all about.
 As I wished to know how to use it, it popped into my mind.

'What is it..... When you chant 'vision', does the online shopping screen come up........the screen really came up!

 In front of me, what looked like an online shopping website came into view.
 The design of the screen resembles that of the global online shopping shops that are commonplace on the planet.

'Is the search just an idea in your brain...'

 I've been sent to this world out of the blue for about a month and a half.
 If you ask me what I want, I'd say something cold because it's still hot in this world.
 Miu Miu chills water and other things, but it is human nature or instinct that you want to eat ice cream.

(Get out of the ice cream!)

 When I thought 'I want to have ice cream' in the back of my brain, the word 'ice cream' appeared in the search function section and many different types of ice creams were displayed.
 Japanese ones and foreign ones.
 From the cheapest to the most expensive products.
 There were so many to choose from.

Can I buy earthly goods in this world? Have there been any 'change agents' in the past who were like that?

 I don't have any way to check that right now, so I guess I shouldn't have to think about it.
 I looked up the product and found that it was the same as a normal online shopping page, with a description of the product, its contents and price.

'So that's where it's not yen or dollars, it's Eidolc,'

 Eidolcs don't seem to differ in value from druks.
 I feel like 1 Eidlk, equals 1 regular druk.

'But there's no such thing as electronic money...'

 Dolks can make money - except for me - but I'm having trouble figuring out how to deposit and use them.
 But then I saw this at the top of the page.

'Kato Taro, 387,759,568,867 Eidolcs is a lot of money!

 If I was a humble salaryman in Japan, I would never earn that much money.
 But why do I use so much electronic money?

Oh, right!

 That's why I didn't get any materials or divine coins from defeating the sand beast.
 So everything was cashed in and deposited here, right?
 If all the materials also disappeared, then there's a high probability that the cost of the materials was included.

''But........then a significant portion of this amount of money must belong to Lalabelle-san and Miu-san.

 For the past two weeks or so, they have just been partying with me, and they haven't gotten any materials or rewards at all.
 I'm in here, to be exact, but I'll have to return it to you two... can I return it?

Don't you have a drawer feature...

 Unfortunately, it occurred to me that once I made it to Eidolc, I couldn't go back to dollar money again.
 That meant I had to be careful with my deposits.
 However, if I and my party members defeat the sand beast, it will be deposited on its own.

''Hm? Deposits from a bank account?

 I found another new feature.
 Apparently you can deposit druk money in your bank account and change it to Eidolcs.

'But I never had a bank account........!

 Speaking of which, the proceeds from the sale of the purple sweatshirt to a nobleman had been in the account.
 Major Sander had advised him to deposit it, saying that since the church ran a bank in this world, he could withdraw it from anywhere in the church.

'Let's make a deposit,'

 I'll have to hide the fact that I'm alive anyway.
 I can't even go to the church to withdraw money, so let's turn it all into Eidolc.
 By the way, I don't think I can put the Eidolcs in my bank account.
 I don't need it.

 When I made a quick deposit, my bank account went from 20 million dorks to zero.
 Instead, the balance of Eidluk is now 475,596,687 Eidluk.
 Is the value of Eidolcs and Druk still the same?

'Maybe I'll buy some ice cream,'

 I had the option of drinking, but when I thought about it, I'm not that much of a drinker.
 I don't have a problem with not drinking, but it's hot in this world anyway.
 I wanted a cold ice cream.
 ''So, isn't it ice-based?'' Some of you may think that this is a good idea, but since Mew is a user of water magic, ice is easy to get.
 The shaved ice can be eaten right away.......it's just chunked ice, since there's no syrup or sugar in it.

'I'll take that.'

 I select a variety set of foreign fine ice cream thresholds and put them in the shopping basket.

'I'll take the vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, matcha, mango and macadamia nut cup ice cream set. Priced at nine thousand eight hundred eidolcs?

 As expected of a high quality foreign ice cream.
 It's a bit much, but I don't think it's a problem because it won't melt if you put it in the "Interdimensional Warehouse".

 It's because a bigger problem has been discovered.

'Eek! You're charging the same amount for shipping!

 I was surprised to find out that online shopping requires a shipping fee, which was quite high.
 According to the explanation that popped into my head, it's a system that costs the same amount of money as the item you purchased.
 The more expensive an item is, the higher the shipping fee will be.

''It can't be helped because it's an item not available in this world........''

 The screen shows 'Notice to Users! A great deal is being offered! So I opened it up.
 Then I saw that it said

It read: "'Thank you for visiting our online shopping site. We're offering you a special deal for this one month only: free shipping forever for those who pay one billion Eidolcs in one payment! This is too good to be true for this month only, so take advantage of it! Ka........

 This is a tremendous deal.
 It's nice to know that the shipping cost is the same as the amount of what you buy, but if you pay 1 billion Eidolcs within a month, you get free shipping forever.
 I'm sure it will be until I die, but it's great to know that any expensive purchase is effectively half price. 
 I'd love to buy it, but the problem is that it's only a month away.

 But the problem is that the deadline is only a month away, and the question arises as to whether or not we can save up 1 billion Eidolcs in the next month.
 Moreover, most of this money was obtained by Lalabelle and Mew by defeating the sand beast.
 Since it wasn't my money, I couldn't spend it on my own even if I could collect a billion Eidolcs.

''I guess we'll have to talk about that too.''

 Now that I had found out the details of my new speciality, 'Online Shopping', I tried to explain the situation to Lalabelle and Miu, so I first bought an ice cream variety set to test it out.

 Then, my balance of ownership decreased to 475,757,068,087 Eidolcs, and suddenly the ice cream variety set appeared in front of me.

'That was fast,'

 It's great that it arrives as soon as you order it.
 Also, I liked that there was no sales tax.
 However, the shipping cost is still a pain.
 I bought an item that cost 9800 Eidlk and the shipping cost is 9800 Eidlk.
 Due to the peculiarity of the shipping cost going up by the amount of money and not by the size or weight of the item purchased, I find it hard to make an expensive purchase.

'After all, it's a good deal to pay a billion dorks.

 In order to discuss what to do in the future, I took the variety set of ice cream I had purchased and headed to Lalabelle and Miu's place. 



''So that's why. I'm sorry that I took the liberty of purchasing the ice cream as an exam, but...''

Mew! That chocolate flavored stuff is mine! It's foul to eat three of them in one sitting! This cold treat called ice cream is excellent.

I don't know about Lalabelle-sama, who was a princess, but even a noblewoman like me can't eat chocolate very often. It's a ridiculously expensive product. There are such delicious sweets in your world, Taro-san.

My brother is so stingy that he pretends to be a reformed king that even I, a princess, have only eaten chocolate twice. This is a very expensive imported product. This ice cream with pink fruits is also very tart.

'Dear Lalabelle, it's been three and a half months since I've had anything sweet. The yellow fruit ice cream is so good it makes me feel faint.

''Yeah. It feels like a long time ago when Mew shaved ice made by magic and put it in his mouth and said things like 'shaved ice plain flavor'.

'You just ate it yesterday, didn't you? It's just ice, so it's cold but not sweet.

This green ice cream is a bit bitter and mature.

The nutty flavored ice cream is delicious too.

'Um ... are you listening to me?'

 Apparently, he is obsessed with ice cream and that is not the case.
 I guess I'll have to wait until I finish eating and settle down.
 Because in every world, girls have a sweet tooth.