Part 5[แก้ไข]
Heading past the Fountain Plaza on Peribed Avenue, the four of them stopped in front of the [Thousand Eyes] branch shop. The store was located on a street filled with cherry blossom trees. Wearing a Japanese-styled apron, while holding onto a bamboo broom, the shop assistant politely addressed to everyone.
"Please leave."
"We haven't even said anything yet."
They were chased out before even entering the shop. Looks like that lady really hated the problematic children.
They would always have the habit of encountering this lady when they needed to sell precious gifts obtained from gift games to this shop. Most likely, the shop assistant hated them because of this reason.
Adjusting her hair, Asuka started arguing in protest,
"We can be counted as regulars, could you be more friendly towards us? "
"The so-called regulars are customers who ACTUALLY shopped here. Those who come here everytime to exchange things for cash aren't customers, they are simply called businessmen."
"Ahhhhh, what you said is indeed correct. Then pardon us for the intrusion."
Asuka might as well agree, she then attempted to enter into the shop quickly.
Facing with rowdy people that attempted to enter the shop, the shop assistant displayed a [Big] word, blocking the path.
Holding the bamboo broom in one hand, she exposed her cat teeth and shouted towards Izayoi and the rest,
"So! This shop politely refuses [No Name] Community! Even the shop owner has no problem, so now..."
"YAHOOO! You kids are finally here ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Unaware of where the sound was coming from, there was a white-haired kimono-wearing maiden falling from the sky.
Her tone was full of joy, as she performed acrobatic movements before having a rough landing on the ground.
Paaaaam! Following it, there were aftershocks, sending dust everywhere. The sound, as well as the person debutting, was without a doubt the white-hair kimono-wearing maiden called Shiroyasha. In fact, the person who sent the invitation letter was none other than her.
While sweeping the dirt off his uniform, Izayoi disapprovingly spoke to the shop assistant:
"Does the act of the shop owner rushing here mean she is dissatisfied with us?"
"......."
The shop assistant was busy dealing with her sudden headache, she couldn't retort to that statement.
Kasukabe gave the invitation letter to Shiroyasha instead of Asuka, who was coughing non-stop due to the scattering dust.
"Thank you for the invitation, but we don't know how to go to the Northern district..."
"Un Un, I totally understand. Please come into the shop first, if you agree to my conditions, I will be glad to pay off your transportation fee...... And I also have something to discuss with you all in private."
Shiroyasha squinted her eyes, but the last sentence she spoke was quite solemn.
The three of then looked at one another, revealing naughty smiles.
"Is it something interesting? "
"Regarding that, counted as interesting? That has to depend on you guys."
After that, the three of them happily entered the shop while dragging Jin along.
The four of them didn't enter the interior of the shop as there was business going on, they passed through the courtyard to reach Shiroyasha's room. It was well known that [Thousand Eyes] was created by a bunch of communities that gathered together, they handled all kinds of goods, they also bought gifts won from gift games for money, the money was used for the community's essentials. They could also accept huge orders if the receiving party was a large community.
After looking at the shop's interior which was quite crowded, Kasukabe murmured,
"Does this shop sell gifts?"
"Of course they do. Even Leticia bought one before. However, they can only use the gold coins issued by us to buy the gifts."
"Oh? Why?"
Izayoi asked, brimming with excitement.
Shiroyasha sat down comfortably onto the mat, "Kong!" Knocking the ash off the Japanese-style cigarette pipe, she replied,
"Basically, when issuing out currency in the Little Garden city, the coins must be of the same size. If it was something other than gifts, we would gladly accept the currency issued out by other communities, but when we are paying we would use our own currency. In other words, we can demonstrate that we [Thousand eyes] can use currency to sell these---so called gifts. Handing the gifts to us would make us exchange even more currency, have a deeper faith and trust with the communities, naturally this is the right choice right?"
So it was like that. Izayoi nodded his head in agreement.
As the opposition's high levels were all Shura deities, they wouldn't be interested in gold and silver items.
"....Un? Since it's like this, why did you have to specially issue out your community's currency during transactions?"
"Hehe, actually we are having a certain currency circulation war with other currency-issuing communities that involves a valuable gift game, that's why the currency was engraved with our flag."
"Whoa....So that's how it is, as the monetary value of all the coins remains the same, if coins are used more times that means that the community gets more support.... Then what about the gift game? Is it worthy of a huge commercial advertisement for the community, since the current thought patterns of all the communities are the same."
Izayoi let out an envy-filled laughter.
In Little Garden city, the currency value isn't determined by gold or silver coins.
Only the flag engraved on the currency can determine its worth.
"But I understand why you had rejected the [No Name] already. In order for the circulation to occur no obstruction should happen, that's why you also chose your customers."
"Un...Yeah, that's how it is."
Shiroyasha gave an ambiguous response, ending this discussion. She must have wanted to start on the main topic already.
Izayoi sat on the tatami mat, fully aware of the reason for the end of discussion.
Shiroyasha's child-like face revealed a serious expression, "Kong", sending the soot into the red colored soot cylinder, she asked.
"Before heading towards the main topic, I'd like to inquire about something first. Since you fought with [Fores Garo], there seems to have been a rumour that you people want to get involved with the Demon Lords....Is that true?"
"Oh, that thing? Yup, it's true."
Asuka expressed her certainty while maintaining her sitting posture. Shiroyasha turned her head to face Jin.
"Jin-dono, As one of the tops of the community, do you agree to the said rumour?"
"Yes, as our name and flag was forcefully taken away, in order for us to make our community well-known, I believe this is the best plan."
Little Garden city was extremely huge. In this world where deities and other supernatural beings reside, the symbol of an organization ----Which is the [Name] and [Flag], is very important to any community. In order to fill up this gap, Jin and the rest decided to create a distinguishable community that [Fights the Demon Lords].
Shiroyasha, with a sharp expression, responded to Jin's answer.
"Do you know the dangers of that? This sort of message would attract the Demon Lords."
"I'm already prepared for that. But even if we want to restore our former glory, in our current situation, we can't even advance to the next digit. Since we won't ever have the chance to duel, we just have to attract them to attack us."
"Even if you fought with Demon Lords that had nothing to do with this, will this be alright?"
Shiroyasha moved her body closer, inquiring another question.
In response to this question, Izayoi, who was sitting beside Jin, replied while having a maniacal laugh.
"That, I have to agree with. Claiming to [Fight the Demon Lords], after beating a Demon Lord, proceeding to challenge a community with an even stronger Demon Lord----How is it? Even if we are in a world filled with Gods and supernatural beings, we wouldn't find any other community that has this much courage right?"
".....Fuuu.